First and foremost, I wish to express my gratitude to Mr Anssi Klapuri, who was the initiator of this research and provided guidance, advice and support of all kinds for this work. I wish to thank Professor Jaakko Astola for his advice and comments. I am grateful for the staff at the Audio Research Group and Insitute of Signal Processing for providing a stimulating working atmosphere. During th...

A method to classify sounds of musical instruments (single monophonic notes) is introduced. The classification is done using in parallel two sets of perceptual features extracted from the sounds. The models used are a mixture of gaussians, whose parameters where found by training over a database of target sound families. The feature extraction procedure, model training and model usage for class...

Musikinterfaces die sich an traditionelle MusikerInnen wenden, werden üblicher Weise anhand von modellhaften Vorstellungen des Interagierens am Instrument konstruiert. Lehrmethoden des Instrumentalspiels liegen ebenfalls modellhafte Vorstellungen der Spieler Instrument Interaktion zugrunde. In diesem Positionspapier werden Unterschiede in Methoden der Interaktion am Instrument gezeigt. Anhand v...

As analytical and bioanalytical methods must be validated before using them for routine sample analysis and after changing method parameters (see Chapter 8), instruments such as liquid chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry (LCMS) or tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS), which are utilized to perform the analysis, should be calibrated and qualified. In addition, an instrument’s performanc...