Music Audio Analysis

Music Audio Analysis refers to the subset of MIR research which targets the extraction of information from the music content using audio analysis.

Such information can relate to

• musical notation (onset, pitches, chords, key, beats/downbeats, tempo, meter, instrumentation, lyrics)

• the labelling of tracks for searching in catalogues (into genre, tags, style, moods, activity)

• non-textual information to be used for retrieval in corpus (search by acoustic similarity, cover-version-identification, audio fingerprint).

We study here a subset of these tasks.

MIREX (Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange) provides an extensive lists of such tasks.