There are manyMIR applications for which we would like to be able to determine the perceived tempo of a song automatically. However, automatic tempo extraction itself is still an open problem. In general there are two tempo extraction methods, either based on the estimation of interonset intervals or based on self similarity computations. To predict a tempo the most significant time-lag or the ...

This paper addresses the problem of determining tempo and timing data from a list of beat annotations. Whilst an approximation to the tempo can be calculated from the inter-beat interval, the annotations also include timing variations due to expressively timed events, phase shifts and errors in the annotation times. These deviations tend to propagate into the tempo graph and so tempo analysis m...

BACKGROUND Since accumulating evidence suggests that step rate is strongly associated with running-related injuries, it is important for runners to exercise at an appropriate running cadence. As music tempo has been shown to be capable of impacting exercise performance of repetitive endurance activities, it might also serve as a means to (re)shape running cadence. The aim of this study was to v...

Is there such a thing as an internal representation of a “steady tempo” and is this representation itself free from tempo drift? To investigate this we propose a new method for studying detection of continuous tempo drift.

New TEMPO-functionalized Ru(ii) polypyridyl complexes were synthesized as efficient theranostic photosensitizers for cancer treatment. Interestingly, due to the presence of a redox sensitive TEMPO moiety, an enhancement in the intracellular fluorescence of TEMPO-functionalized Ru(ii) complexes was observed during photodynamic treatment in both confocal microscopy and flow cytometry. This can be...

in this study two indices of tempo and quantum of fertility for the city of tehran are calculated. the tables are based on data which have been collected in a survey in 1986. the sampling was administrated at two stages. at the beginning 158 geographical points were considered (the number of first birth order during 24 hours in tehran), then on the first stage 17 random geographical points were...

In two experiments, we investigated context effects on tempo judgments for familiar and unfamiliar songs performed by popular artists. In Experiment 1, participants made comparative tempo judgments to a remembered standard for song clips drawn from either a slow or a fast context, created by manipulating the tempos of the same songs. Although both familiar and unfamiliar songs showed significan...

A reversible nerve-blocking spin label, 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidine-1-oxyl (TEMPO) was used to study the nature of anesthetic-binding sites in nerve membranes as a function of pressure. The nerve-blocking effect of TEMPO is enhanced under pressure. At atmospheric pressure, TEMPO blocks nerve conduction by solubilizing in the apolar region of the nerve membrane. However, the nerve-conduction-b...

This paper describes a tempo estimation algorithm submitted to the MIREX 2011, and is an extension of the work presented in [2]. Using the tempo estimation results from four different approaches (BeatIt, Ellis, Davies and MPEG7-XM), we use a heuristic strategy to obtain the slow and fast tempo from audio music combinig their results, based on the hypothesis that the tatum and tactus tempo hiera...

Tempo estimation is a fundamental problem in music information retrieval and has been researched extensively. One problem still unsolved is the tendency of tempo estimation algorithms to produce results that are wrong by a small number of known factors (so-called octave errors). We propose a method that uses supervised learning to predict such tempo estimation errors. In a post-processing step,...