Optical Music Recognition (OMR) systems are an indispensable tool to transform the paper-based music scores and manuscripts into a machine-readable symbolic format. A system like this potentiates search, retrieval and analysis. One of the problematic stages is the musical symbols detection where operations to localize and to isolate musical objects are developed. The complexity is caused by pri...

Identifying chords and related musical attributes from digital audio has proven a long-standing problem spanning many decades of research. A robust identification may facilitate automatic transcription, semantic indexing, polyphonic source separation and other emerging applications. To this end, we develop a Bayesian inference engine operating on single-frame STFT peaks. Peak likelihoods condit...

Rehearsal recordings are valuable for music ensembles to improve their performance. However, since rehearsal recordings are typically hours long and contain disordered, disrupted, and unclassified musical content (mixed with different sections of different music pieces, conductor’s talk, all kinds of noise between rehearsal intervals and so on), they’re hard to use directly. For example, record...

Musical training strengthens segregation the target signal from background noise. Musicians have enhanced stream segregation, which can be considered a process similar to comodulation masking release. In the current study, we surveyed psychoacoustical comodulation masking release in musicians and non-musicians. We then recorded the brainstem responses to complex stimuli in comodulated and unmod...

This paper presents new propositions to audio restoration and enhancement based on Sound Source Modeling (SSM). The main motivation is to take advantage of prior information of generative models of sound sources when restoring or enhancing musical signals. We describe a case based on the commuted waveguide synthesis algorithm for plucked string tones and devise a scheme to extend the bandwidth ...

in treating the subject of musical language, a persian musician would be intrinsically drawn to the structural similarities between the persian music and language. indeed persian music and language are extremely related in their metrics, intonations and structural phrases (syntax). although we will draw upon this relationship, our aim in this article is to present “music as a language,” consist...

Previous studies have already demonstrated that auditory stimulation with music influences the cardiovascular system. In this study, we described the relationship between musical auditory stimulation and heart rate variability. Searches were performed with the Medline, SciELO, Lilacs and Cochrane databases using the following keywords: "auditory stimulation", "autonomic nervous system", "music"...

This study examined whether rapid temporal auditory processing, verbal working memory capacity, non-verbal intelligence, executive functioning, musical ability and prior foreign language experience predicted how well native English speakers (N=120) discriminated Norwegian tonal and vowel contrasts as well as a non-speech analogue of the tonal contrast and a native vowel contrast presented over ...

A novel filter configuration for the analysis of harmonic musical signals is proposed. The method is based on inverse comb filtering that allows for the extraction of selected harmonic components or the background noise component between the harmonic spectral components. A highly accurate delay required in the inverse comb filter is implemented with a high-order allpass filter. The paper shows ...

This paper reviews a series of studies performed to assess the musical abilities and behaviors of individuals with Williams syndrome, a neurogenetic developmental disorder, in the hope of eventually being able to link genes, neurodevelopment, and cognition. Two questionnaire studies addressing the role of music in everyday life, and unusual reactions to sound, are described. Additionally, the f...