Awareness of playing movements can help a piano student to improve technique. We are developing a piano pedagogy application that uses sensor data of hand and arm movement and generates feedback to increase movement awareness. This paper reports on a method for analysis of piano playing movements. The method allows to judge whether an active movement in a joint has occurred during a given time ...

Functional asymmetry of the parietal lobes during piano performance was assessed utilizing independent componentcross correlation-sequential epoch analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging time series. Eight right handed musically trained subjects played the piano with their right hand, left hand, or both hands as cued by visually presented musical scores. The areas activated included t...

This paper presents a brief overview of our researches in the use of connectionist systems for transcription of polyphonic piano music and concentrates on the issue of onset detection in musical signals. We propose a new technique for detecting onsets in a piano performance. The technique is based on a combination of a bank of auditory filters, a network of integrateand-fire neurons and a multi...

Thanks to the development of the Internet, people can easily access a vast amount of music. This brings attention to application systems such as a melody-based music search service or music recommendation service. Extracting melodies from music is a crucial process to provide such services. This paper introduces a novel algorithm that can extract melodies from piano music. Since piano can produ...

The \commuted piano synthesis" algorithm is described, based on a simpli ed acoustic model of the piano. The model includes multiple coupled strings, a nonlinear hammer, and an arbitrarily large soundboard and enclosure. Simpli cations are employed which greatly reduce computational complexity. Most of the simpli cations are made possible by the commutativity of linear, time-invariant systems. ...

This paper presents our recent work in developing a system for transcription of polyphonic piano music. Our goal is to build a system that would automatically transcribe polyphonic piano music from the audio signal, transcribing note onsets and offsets. The system consists of three main stages: filtering, partial tracking and note extraction. The paper presents our partial tracking method based...