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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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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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Enhancement Of Global Tempo Computation In Beat Tracking System Based On Teager-Kaiser Energy Operator
Ištvánek, Matěj
Beat detection systems and onset detections are used in music information retrieval (MIR) research field for the calculation of the global tempo (GT) and beat positions in audio recordings. The aim of this article is to introduce the enhancement of the onset detector and therefore the beat tracking system. The enhancement is based on the Teager-Kaiser energy operator (TKEO), which is used in pre-processing stage before the onset computation. The proposed method is firstly evaluated in terms of ability to estimate GT of a given audio track and then it is tested on the string quartet database. Results suggest that the TKEO could improve accuracy of GT estimation. Proposed beat tracking system could be used for analysis of interpretation changes in string quartet music.
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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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Recognition of music style from orchestral recording using Music Information Retrieval techniques
Jelínková, Jana ; Zvončák, Vojtěch (referee) ; Kiska, Tomáš (advisor)
As all genres of popular music, classical music consists of many different subgenres. The aim of this work is to recognize those subgenres from orchestral recordings. It is focused on the time period from the very end of 16th century to the beginning of 20th century, which means that Baroque era, Classical era and Romantic era are researched. The Music Information Retrieval (MIR) method was used to classify chosen subgenres. In the first phase of MIR method, parameters were extracted from musical recordings and were evaluated. Only the best parameters were used as input data for machine learning classifiers, to be specific: kNN (K-Nearest Neighbor), LDA (Linear Discriminant Analysis), GMM (Gaussian Mixture Models) and SVM (Support Vector Machines). In the final chapter, all the best results are summarized. According to the results, there is significant difference between the Baroque era and the other researched eras. This significant difference led to better identification of the Baroque era recordings. On the contrary, Classical era ended up to be relatively similar to Romantic era and therefore all classifiers had less success in identification of recordings from this era. The results are in line with music theory and characteristics of chosen musical eras.
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Automatic tagging of musical compositions using machine learning methods
Semela, René ; Galáž, Zoltán (referee) ; Kiska, Tomáš (advisor)
One of the many challenges of machine learning are systems for automatic tagging of music, the complexity of this issue in particular. These systems can be practically used in the content analysis of music or the sorting of music libraries. This thesis deals with the design, training, testing, and evaluation of artificial neural network architectures for automatic tagging of music. In the beginning, attention is paid to the setting of the theoretical foundation of this field. In the practical part of this thesis, 8 architectures of neural networks are designed (4 fully convolutional and 4 convolutional recurrent). These architectures are then trained using the MagnaTagATune Dataset and mel spectrogram. After training, these architectures are tested and evaluated. The best results are achieved by the four-layer convolutional recurrent neural network (CRNN4) with the ROC-AUC = 0.9046 ± 0.0016. As the next step of the practical part of this thesis, a completely new Last.fm Dataset 2020 is created. This dataset uses Last.fm and Spotify API for data acquisition and contains 100 tags and 122877 tracks. The most successful architectures are then trained, tested, and evaluated on this new dataset. The best results on this dataset are achieved by the six-layer fully convolutional neural network (FCNN6) with the ROC-AUC = 0.8590 ± 0.0011. Finally, a simple application is introduced as a concluding point of this thesis. This application is designed for testing individual neural network architectures on a user-inserted audio file. Overall results of this thesis are similar to other papers on the same topic, but this thesis brings several new findings and innovations. In terms of innovations, a significant reduction in the complexity of individual neural network architectures is achieved while maintaining similar results.
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Cover Song Identification using Music Harmony Features, Model and Complexity Analysis
Maršík, Ladislav ; Pokorný, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Ge, Mouzhi (referee) ; Łukasik, Ewa (referee)
Title: Cover Song Identification using Music Harmony Features, Model and Complexity Analysis Author: Ladislav Maršík Department: Department of Software Engineering Supervisor: Prof. RNDr. Jaroslav Pokorný, CSc., Department of Software Engineering Abstract: Analysis of digital music and its retrieval based on the audio fe- atures is one of the popular topics within the music information retrieval (MIR) field. Every musical piece has its characteristic harmony structure, but harmony analysis is seldom used for retrieval. Retrieval systems that do not focus on similarities in harmony progressions may consider two versions of the same song different, even though they differ only in instrumentation or a singing voice. This thesis takes various paths in exploring, how music harmony can be used in MIR, and in particular, the cover song identification (CSI) task. We first create a music harmony model based on the knowledge of music theory. We define novel concepts: a harmonic complexity of a mu- sical piece, as well as the chord and chroma distance features. We show how these concepts can be used for retrieval, complexity analysis, and how they compare with the state-of-the-art of music harmony modeling. An extensive comparison of harmony features is then performed, using both the novel fe- atures and the...
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Optical Recognition of Handwritten Music Notation
Hajič, Jan ; Pecina, Pavel (advisor) ; Fujinaga, Ichiro (referee) ; Černocký, Jan (referee)
Optical Music Recognition (OMR) is the field of computationally reading music notation. This thesis presents, in the form of dissertation by publication, contributions to the theory, resources, and methods of OMR especially for handwritten notation. The main contributions are (1) the Music Notation Graph (MuNG) formalism for describing arbitrarily complex music notation using an oriented graph that can be unambiguously interpreted in terms of musical semantics, (2) the MUSCIMA++ dataset of musical manuscripts with MuNG as ground truth that can be used to train and evaluate OMR systems and subsystems from the image all the way to extracting the musical semantics encoded therein, and (3) a pipeline for performing OMR on musical manuscripts that relies on machine learning both for notation symbol detection and the notation assembly stage, and on properties of the inferred MuNG representation to deterministically extract the musical semantics. While the the OMR pipeline does not perform flawlessly, this is the first OMR system to perform at basic useful tasks over musical semantics extracted from handwritten music notation of arbitrary complexity.
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Music genre recognition using Music information retrieval techniques
Zemánková, Šárka ; Zvončák, Vojtěch (referee) ; Kiska, Tomáš (advisor)
This diploma work deals with music genre recognition using the techniques of Music Information Retrieval. It contains a brief description of the principle of this research area and its subfield called Music Genre Recognition. The following chapter includes selection of the most suitable parameters for describing music genres. This work further characterizes machine learning methods used in this field of research. The next chapter deals with the descriptions of music datasets created for genre classification studies. Subsequently, there is a draft and evaluation of the system for music genre recognition. The last part of this work describes the results of partial parameter analysis, dependence of genre classification accuracy on the amount of parameters and contains a discussion on the causes of classification accurancy for the individual genres.
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