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Automatic image classification
Ševčík, Zdeněk ; Miklánek, Štěpán (referee) ; Sikora, Pavel (advisor)
The aim of this thesis is to explore clustering algorithms of machine unsupervised learning, which can be used for image database classification by similarity. For chosen clustering algorithms is written up a theoretical basis. For better classification of used database this thesis deals with different methods of image preprocessing. With these methods the features from image are extracted. Next the thesis solves of implementation of preprocessing methods and practical application of clustering algorithms. In practical part is programmed aplication in Python programming language, which classifies the database of images into classes by similarity. The thesis tests all of used methods and at the end of the thesis is processed searches of results.
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A tool for simultaneous playback of multiple composition interpretations
Švejcar, Michael ; Ištvánek, Matěj (referee) ; Miklánek, Štěpán (advisor)
The purpose of this Bachelor’s thesis was to create a piece of software which enables the user to simultaneously play back multiple interpretations of a musical piece and switch between them instantaneously. This was achieved using the App Designer in the MATLAB environment, which is intended for developing applications with graphical user interface. The key to the development of the application was especially the use of available toolboxes and algorithms for computing chromagrams and multiscale dynamic time warping. The final IntSwitcher player enables the user to load two recordings of interpretations of one song. Chromagrams which characterize the individual recordings in terms of tonal development over time are first calculated from the input files. After that, the multiscale dynamic time warping method is applied on the chromagrams, which outputs the warping path. The warping path in this case is a matrix, in which musically corresponding samples of loaded audio files are assigned together with the resolution of 50 ms. From this, the corresponding time position of currently inactive track is computed along with its slider position. If the user switches the currently played recording, the second track starts playing in the same part of composition, even if that part is at a different time in each of the individual recordings. The final software is an appropriate tool for studying differences between various interpretations of the same musical piece.
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Beat tracking systems for music recordings
Staňková, Karolína ; Miklánek, Štěpán (referee) ; Ištvánek, Matěj (advisor)
This master thesis deals with systems for detecting rhythmic structures of music recordings. The field of Music Information Retrieval (MIR) allows us to examine the harmonic and tonal properties of music, rhythm, tempo, etc., and has uses in academic and commercial sphere. Various algorithms are used in the detection of rhythmic structures. However, today, most new methods use neural networks. This work aims to summarize the current research results of systems for detecting beats and tempo, to describe methods of calculating and evaluating the parameters of music recordings, and to implement a program that allows comparison of available detection systems. The result of the work is a script in the Python language, which uses six different systems to detect the rhythmic structure of test recordings. It then checks the outputs of the algorithms according to the given reference and compares the given systems with each other using several evaluation values. It uses two datasets as a reference—one of them is publicly available and the other was created by the author of this thesis (including annotations, i.e., reference beat times, for the sample recordings). The program allows user to see the results in graphs and play any of the sample recordings with detected beat times.
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Extraction of parameters for the research of music performance
Laborová, Anna ; Miklánek, Štěpán (referee) ; Ištvánek, Matěj (advisor)
Different music performances of the same piece may significantly differ from each other. Not only the composer and the score defines the listener’s music experience, but the music performance itself is an integral part of this experience. Four parameter classes can be used to describe a performance objectively: tempo and timing, loudness (dynamics), timbre, and pitch. Each of the individual parameters or their combination can generate a unique characteristic performance. The extraction of such objective parameters is one of the difficulties in the field of Music Performance Analysis and Music Information Retrieval. The submitted work summarizes knowledge and methods from both of the fields. The system is applied to extract data from 31 string quartet performances of 2. movement Lento of String Quartet no. 12 F major (1893) by czech romantic composer Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904).
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Web interface for audio feature visualization
Putz, Viliam ; Ištvánek, Matěj (referee) ; Miklánek, Štěpán (advisor)
This thesis deals with methods of audio features extraction from audio files, visualization of these features and implementation of web interface, which provides the visualization. In the introduction, Music Information Retrieval field, with which this thesis is closely related, is described. Also, the current state in the area of applications for audio features extraction is described. Next, the most common libraries for audio feature extraction within the programming languages are listed. In the second chapter, the audio features that can be extracted from audio file are listed and described. In the third chapter, there is description of the process of implementation, used technologies, function diagram of the web interface, explanation of functionality and description of user interface and its functions.
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System for finding duplicate recordings based on audio information
Švejcar, Michael ; Miklánek, Štěpán (referee) ; Ištvánek, Matěj (advisor)
This diploma thesis discusses different methods of detecting duplicates in a music file database. The problem at hand is that files containing the same recording may differ in sound quality, applause at the end of a performance and other such parameters. The aim of this thesis is to design and implement a system that identifies duplicate recordings and provides an output file for the comparison. The system needs to not be affected by the mentioned parameters but precise enough to prevent matching non-identical recordings. The system is realized using the Python programming language, freely available libraries for computing chroma features, Image Hashing technique and multiple variants of the dynamic time warping algorithm. Three comparison methods were implemented in the system, differing in precision and computation complexity. The methods were then tested on a prepared dataset and four preset precision options were created. The final system seems very precise and insusceptible to detecting recordings that are very similar but not identical as duplicates, for example in case of different interpretations of the same musical piece.
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Beat Tracking: Is 441 kHz Really Needed?
Ištvánek, Matěj ; Miklánek, Štěpán
Beat tracking is essential in music informationretrieval, with applications ranging from music analysis and automaticplaylist generation to beat-synchronized effects. In recentyears, deep learning methods, usually inspired by well-knownarchitectures, outperformed other beat tracking algorithms. Thecurrent state-of-the-art offline beat tracking systems utilize temporalconvolutional and recurrent networks. Most systems use aninput sampling rate of 44.1 kHz. In this paper, we retrain multipleversions of state-of-the-art temporal convolutional networks withdifferent input sampling rates while keeping the time resolutionby changing the frame size parameter. Furthermore, we evaluateall models using standard metrics. As the main contribution,we show that decreasing the input audio recording samplingfrequency up to 5 kHz preserves most of the accuracy, and insome cases, even slightly outperforms the standard approach.
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Piano chord analyzer
Poloček, Dominik ; Miklánek, Štěpán (referee) ; Ištvánek, Matěj (advisor)
The presented thesis deals with the analysis of chords by determining the frequencies of their components. The aim of thesis is to outline methods for determining the fundamental frequencies of single and multiple notes and to implement a system that can determine chords using these methods. The method, implemented in Python (spectral peak method), uses a fast Fourier transform to represent the signal in the frequency domain and then searches for spectral maxima, which it evaluates as fundamental frequencies after proper checking. The spectral peaks method was compared with the harmonic component modulus summation method and with the state-of-the- art system for transcribing recordings to MIDI (PianoTransctiprion) by running tests on the dataset created for this thesis (530 chord and note recordings). The best results are presented by PianoTranscription ( = 0.74, tot = 0.23), the second best performing method is the spectral peaks method with a known number of tones ( = 0.55, tot = 0.29), followed by the same method with unknown number of tones ( = 0.52, tot = 0.38) and finally the harmonic component modulus summation method ( = 0.26, tot = 0.81). The limitations of the implemented system are the inability to determine the number of tones (must be specified by the user) and the frequency minimum (138.59 Hz), below which the estimates are erroneous, which is probably due to the design of the piano and the braiding of strings.
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Chord structure detection in music recordings
Kučera, Ondřej ; Miklánek, Štěpán (referee) ; Ištvánek, Matěj (advisor)
This thesis deals with music information retrieval, namely automatic chord recognition in audio recordings. The thesis defines the concepts of chord and chroma features and describes the methods of converting the signal from the time domain to the frequency domain. The thesis explores methods for automatic chord detection; the state-of-the-art methods are based on deep learning. The thesis includes a system implemented in Python that allows chord detection from audio recordings. Individual recordings and associated chord labels can be visualized. The system offers a choice of methods for chord recognition – a method based on chord templates, a method using deep chroma vectors, and a method based on a convolutional neural network. The results of the methods are evaluated on a multi-genre dataset compiled from freely available annotations and recordings.
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Analysis of automatic parameter extraction on piano recordings
Kaplan, Josef ; Miklánek, Štěpán (referee) ; Ištvánek, Matěj (advisor)
This bachelor thesis deals with the analysis of the accuracy of automatic extraction of parameters, mainly of piano recordings. The given issue is described both from a technical and a musical perspective. This thesis summarizes knowledge from the field of music theory and the automatic detection of parameters that can be obtained from musical piano recordings. This thesis is focused on detecting onsets, beats, downbeats, pitch estimation and tempo. The analysis of piano recordings is realized using the Python programming language. The output is scripts that perform parameter detection based on user-selected methods that are commonly used to calculate parameters. The result is also testing the accuracy of individual methods based on annotations from different datasets, focusing primarily on piano recordings. The final part contains an evaluation based on selected metrics with an objective comparison.
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