Content Based Retrieval and Navigation of Music
Steven Blackburn · ePrints Soton (University of Southampton) · 1999
Contents 1 Introduction ................................................... 3 2 Literature Review .............................................. 4 2.1 Navigation ............................................... 4 2.2 Navigation of audio ........................................ 4 2.3 Contentrepresentations ..................................... 5 2.3.1 The musical score ................................... 6 2.3.2 Performance data .................................... 6 2.3.3 Musical pitch contours ................................ 6 2.3.4 Alternative representations ............................ 7 2.3.5 The Fourier transform ................................ 7 2.4 Content based retrieval ..................................... 8 2.4.1 Retrieval of digital audio samples ....................... 8 2.4.2 Query by humming .................................. 8 2.4.3 Lemstrm and Laine ................................. 9 2.4.4 Image matching techniq