Beat Richner MD

Beat Estimation on the Beat

This paper presents a novel method for the estimation of beat interval, and the exact location of the beats from audio files. As a first step, a feature extracted from the waveform is used to identify note onsets. The estimated note onsets are used as input to a beat induction algorithm, where the most probable beat intervals are found. The note onsets corresponding to the beat locations are th...

Pulse ) Measure Beat Sound Events A Fast Beat Primary Beat

THE GOAL OF THIS STUDY was to assess the ability of North American adults to synchronize and continue their tapping to complex meter patterns in the presence and absence of musical cues to meter. We asked participants to tap to drum patterns structured according to two different 7/8 meters common in Balkan music. Each meter contained three nonisochronous drumbeats per measure, forming intervals...

Beat-ID: identifying music via beat analysis

Music identification is an effective tool that enables multimedia players to extract a distinct statistical digest of the played content, look up into a music database using the extracted unique identifier, and then take advantage of the services available for that particular content. In this paper, we introduce Beat-IDs, the first music identification system that creates the digest of the musi...

Beat-to-beat Left Ventricular Performance

The feasibility, accuracy and reproducibility of continuous beat-to-beat evaluation of left ventricular performance with a computerized nonimaging scintillation probe was assessed in 71 patients. This portable instrument has enough sensitivity to generate a real-time relative left ventricular volume curve using the labeled equilibrium blood pool without electrocardiographic gating. The probe wa...

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