Recently, several music information retrieval (MIR) systems which retrieve musical pieces by the user’s singing voice have been developed. All of these systems use only melody information for retrieval, although lyrics information is also useful for retrieval. In this paper, we propose a new MIR system that uses both lyrics and melody information. First, we propose a new lyrics recognition meth...

this study investigates the coordination of production scheduling and maintenance planning in theflow shop scheduling environment. the problem is considered in a bi-objective form, minimizing themakespan as the production scheduling criterion and minimizing the system unavailability as themaintenance planning criterion. the time interval between consecutive maintenance activities as well as the...

A new technique presents to improve the performance of dynamic voltage restorer (DVR) for voltage sag mitigation. This control scheme is based on cuckoo search algorithm with tree fuzzy rule based classifier (CSA-TFRC). CSA is used for optimizing the output of TFRC so the classification output of the network is enhanced. While, the combination of cuckoo search algorithm, fuzzy and decision tree...

In recent years, the personal computer has become an integral component in the typesetting and management of various types of music. However, the computer is capable of serving as more than just a typesetting and data management tool. This paper explores the ability of a computer to generate and arrange four part vocal harmony in the style of church hymnody. The research presented here involves...

We discuss why evaluating melodic segmentation is difficult when solutions are ambiguous and explore the nature of this ambiguity using a corpus of melodies hand-segmented by musicians. For each melody, the musicians identified different, musically coherent solutions, suggesting that ambiguity should be modeled when assessing how “well” an algorithm segments the same melody. We propose a probab...

Query by humming (QBH) refers to music information retrieval systems where short audio clips of singing or humming act as queries. Melody is considered as the most important feature in the queries and the songs. This system proposes a QBH system Using Melody Matching Model Based on a string pattern matching mechanism of frequency contours, which is used to align the input pitch frequency contou...

This paper presents our on­going work to automatically generate lyrics for a given melody, for phonetic languages such as Tamil. We approach the task of identifying the required syllable pattern for the lyric as a sequence labeling problem and hence use the popular CRF++ toolkit for learning. A corpus comprising of 10 melodies was used to train the system to under...

This paper describes an algorithm for melody detection in polyphonic recordings. Our approach starts by obtaining a set of pitch candidates for each time frame, with recourse to an auditory model. Trajectories of the most salient pitches are then constructed. Next, note candidates are obtained by trajectory segmentation (in terms of frequency and pitch salience variations). Too short, low-salie...

This extended abstract describes an algorithm which was submitted to the 2008 Music Information Retrieval eXchange in the audio chord detection task. As it is not pre-trained it aims at the n-fold training/testing subtask. Part of this submission is a source separation algorithm which is used to attenuate the main melody. 1