Today many people store music media files in personal computers or portable audio players, thanks to recent evolution of multimedia technologies. The more music media files these devices store, the messier it is to search for tunes that users want to listen to. We propose MusCat, a music browser to interactively search for the tunes according to features, not according to metadata (e.g. title, ...

Recent progress of computer and network technologies makes it possible to store and retrieve a large volume of multimedia data in many applications. In such applications, efficient indexing scheme is very important for multimedia retrieval. Depending on the media type, multimedia data shows distinct characteristics and requires different approach to handle. In this paper, we propose a fast melo...

Thanks to recent evolution of multimedia technology, today we often use computers as music recorders and players. Number of tunes stored in our computers is monotonically increasing, and therefore users often face difficulty while selecting tunes which they want to listen. To solve the problem, we aim visual selection of tunes based on their impression. This paper proposes a technique for autom...

Involuntary musical imagery (INMI or “earworms”)— the spontaneous recall and repeating of a tune in one’s mind—can be attributed to a wide range of triggers, including memory associations and recent musical exposure. The present study examined whether a song’s popularity and melodic features might also help to explain whether it becomes INMI, using a dataset of tunes that were named as INMI by ...

In a recent study, G. Kuhn and Z. Dienes (2005) reported that participants previously exposed to a set of musical tunes generated by a biconditional grammar subsequently preferred new tunes that respected the grammar over new ungrammatical tunes. Because the study and test tunes did not share any chunks of adjacent intervals, this result may be construed as straightforward evidence for the impl...