This paper presents first steps towards a simple, robust computational model of automatic melody identification. Based on results from music psychology that indicate a relationship between melodic complexity and a listener’s attention, we postulate a relationship between musical complexity and the probability of a musical line to be perceived as the melody. We introduce a simple measure of melo...

Although transcatheter pulmonary valve replacement using the Melody valve (Medtronic Inc, Minneapolis, MN) has become widely adopted, it has only been formally studied in patients with right ventricle–to–pulmonary artery conduits 22 mm in diameter.1,2 Such patients compose only a small proportion of individuals with right ventricular outflow tract (RVOT) dysfunction, and there is interest and p...

This paper presents our on-going work to improve the lyric generation component of the Automatic Lyric Generation system for the Tamil Language. An earlier version of the system used an n-gram based model to generate lyrics that match the given melody. This paper identifies some of the deficiencies in the melody analysis and text generation components of the earlier system and explains the new ...

Although transcatheter pulmonary valve replacement using the Melody valve (Medtronic Inc, Minneapolis, MN) has become widely adopted, it has only been formally studied in patients with right ventricle–to–pulmonary artery conduits 22 mm in diameter.1,2 Such patients compose only a small proportion of individuals with right ventricular outflow tract (RVOT) dysfunction, and there is interest and p...

Autosimilar melodies put together the interplay of several melodies within a monody, the augmentations of a given melody, and the notion of autosimilarity which is well known in fractal objects. From a mathematical study of their properties, arising from experimentations by their inventor, composer Tom Johnson, we have generalized the notion towards the dual aspects of the group of symmetries o...

OBJECTIVE The first specific aim of the present study is to compare the ability of normal-hearing and cochlear implant listeners to use temporal cues in three music perception tasks: tempo discrimination, rhythmic pattern identification, and melody identification. The second aim is to identify the relative contribution of temporal and spectral cues to melody recognition in acoustic and electric...

Music is part of an infant's world even before birth, and caregivers around the world sing to infants. Yet, there has been little research into the musical abilities or preferences of infants younger than 5 months. In this study, the head turn preference procedure used with older infants was adapted into an eye-movement preference procedure so that the ability of 2-month-old infants to remember...

The MIREX (Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange) framework provides a common set of data to evaluate and compare a vast variety of MIR systems. This paper describes our submission to the audio melody extraction evaluation addressing the task of identifying the melody pitch contour from polyphonic musical audio. It shall give an overview about the used methods and a discussion of the ...

This paper describes the submissions to the MIREX 2006 Query by Singing/Humming task delivered by Fraunhofer IDMT. The approach presented here is based on extracting the pitch out of monophonic singing (or humming), and hereafter segmenting and quantising it into a melody composed of discrete notes. Finally this melody is compared to a database of indexed melodies, using an error tolerant simil...

Quinn and Watt (2006 Perception 35 267-280) showed that the optimal tempi for pieces of music (ie the appropriate speed for a melody) vary from melody to melody. The current study tested if such tempi responses depend on previous stimulus presentations. To do this, we ran a many-participants single-presentation version of the Quinn and Watt experiment. 616 visitors to the Glasgow Science Centre...