Florian Krebs,
"Metrical Analysis of Musical Audio Using Probabilistic Models"
, 12-2016
Original Titel:
Metrical Analysis of Musical Audio Using Probabilistic Models
Sprache des Titels:
Englisch
Original Kurzfassung:
Due to the exploding amount of available music in recent years, media collections
cannot be managed manually any more, which makes automatic audio analysis crucial
for content-based search, organisation, and processing of data.
This thesis focuses on the automatic extraction of a metrical grid, determined by
beats, downbeats, and time signature, from a music piece. I propose several algorithms
to tackle this problem, all comprising three stages: First, (low-level) features are extracted
from the audio signal. Second, an acoustic model transfers these features into
probabilities in the music domain. Third, a probabilistic sequence model finds the most
probable sequence of labels under the model assumptions.
This thesis provides contributions to the second and third stage. I (i) explore acoustic
models based on machine learning methods, and (ii) develop models and algorithms
for efficient probabilistic inference for both online and offline scenarios. Further, I
design applications such as an automatic drummer which listens to and accompanies a
musician in a live setting.
The most recent algorithms developed in this thesis exhibit state-of-the-art per-
formance and clearly demonstrate the superiority of systems incorporating machine
learning over hand-designed systems, which were prevalent at the time of starting this
thesis. All algorithms developed in this thesis are publicly available as open-source
software. I also publish beat and downbeat annotations for the Ballroom dataset to
foster further research in this area.
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