Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2015)
Original Kurzfassung:
In this paper we present a real-world application
(the first of its kind) of machine listening in the context
of a live concert in a world-famous concert hall
? the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. A real-time
music tracking algorithm listens to the Royal Concertgebouw
Orchestra performing Richard Strauss?
Alpensinfonie and follows the progress in the sheet
music, i.e., continuously tracks the most likely position
of the live music in the printed score. This
information, in turn, is used to enrich the concert
experience for members of the audience by streaming
synchronised visual content (the sheet music,
explanatory text and videos) onto tablet computers
in the concert hall. The main focus of this paper is
on the challenges involved in tracking live orchestral
music, i.e., how to deal with heavily polyphonic
music, how to prepare the data needed, and how to
achieve the necessary robustness and precision.