E. Aharoni S. Fine Y. Goldschmidt O. Lavi O. Margalit M. Rosen-Zvi L. Shpigelman Modern computer systems generate an enormous number of logs. IBM Mining Effectively Large Output Data Yield (MELODY) is a unique and innovative solution for handling these logs and filtering out the anomalies and failures. MELODY can detect system errors early on and avoid subsequent crashes by identifying the root...

Much research has explored developing sound representations in language, but less work addresses developing representations of other sound patterns. This study examined preschool children's musical representations using two different tasks: discrimination and sound-picture association. Melodic contour--a musically relevant property--and instrumental timbre, which is (arguably) less musically re...

Melody estimation algorithms are typically evaluated by separately assessing the task of voice activity detection and fundamental frequency estimation. For both subtasks, computed results are typically compared to a single human reference annotation. This is problematic since different human experts may differ in how they specify a predominant melody, thus leading to a pool of equally valid ref...

We present a method for melody detection in polyphonic musical signals based on a model of the human auditory system. First, a set of pitch candidates is obtained for each frame, based on the output of an ear model and periodicity detection using correlograms. Trajectories of the most salient pitches are then constructed. Next, note candidates are obtained by trajectory segmentation (in terms o...

We present a query-by-humming music recognition system to retrieve a melody from a database of MIDI music. The hummed melody input is converted to a sequence of notes by a pitch estimation frontend so that the recognition task can be formulated as an error-tolerant string matching problem. The music notation used shows tempo and tone height invariance. Errors due to missing, additional or modif...

In this paper, we describe a novel music information retrieval system using spelling correction technique. The current music retrieval systems with humming enable a user give a query with humming. However, there is a problem that a user cannot always input a complete melody to the system with humming. It is because the user often mistakes a melody in its query. In order to solve the problem, we...

We introduce MedleyDB: a dataset of annotated, royaltyfree multitrack recordings. The dataset was primarily developed to support research on melody extraction, addressing important shortcomings of existing collections. For each song we provide melody f0 annotations as well as instrument activations for evaluating automatic instrument recognition. The dataset is also useful for research on tasks...

In this paper, we present a JXTA-based system for contents-based music information retrieval. The system finds matching melodies from a set of XML documents that encode music contents. The XML documents are stored in a native XML database and XPath query language is used to extract the information about the structure of music data. The matching algorithm utilizes the geometric hashing technique...

The paper offers an analysis of Vasyl Stefanyk’s short story “The Old Melody”. This piece, first published in 1927 the May edition Kharkiv magazine Red Way” under title “Brothers. Melody”, is a highly artistic literary representation Christmas traditions Pokuttia region. author not only outlined concept ritual behavior caroling community members but also enriched piece with skillfully engraved ...

This paper describes a method for a WWW-based melody-retrieval system, takes a melody sung by a user as a search clue and sent over the Internet and uses it to retrieve the song’s title from a music database of standard MIDI files(SMF). It was difficult to build a melody-retrieval service with a large database and with a lot of user accesses since it was quite difficult to build a system which ...