OMRAS
Publications and Related Activities
Bello, J. P., Daudet, L. & Sandler, M. B. (2002). Time-Domain Polyphonic Transcription using Self-Generating Databases. In Proceedings of the 112th Convention of the Audio Engineering Society. Munich, Germany.
Bello, J. P., Monti, G. & Sandler, M. B. (2000). Techniques for Automatic Music Transcription. International Symposium on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA.
Bello, J. P., Monti, G. & Sandler, M. B. (in press).
Automatic Music Transcription. In Downie, S., Crawford, T. & Byrd, D.
(Eds.), Current Research in Music Information Retrieval: Searching Audio,
MIDI, and Scores.
Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Bello, J. P., & Sandler, M. B. (2000). Blackboard System and Top-Down Processing for the Transcription of Simple Polyphonic Music. In Proceedings of the COST G-6 Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx-00). Verona, Italy.
Byrd, D. (2001). Music-Notation Searching and Digital Libraries. In Proceedings of Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2001); also available as Technical Report IR-220, Computer Science Dept., Univ. of Massachusetts/Amherst.
Byrd, D. & Crawford, T. (2002). Problems of Music Information Retrieval in the Real World. Information Processing and Management 38, pp. 249-272. Also available as Technical Report IR-214, Computer Science Dept., Univ. of Massachusetts/Amherst.
Crawford, T., Iliopoulos, C., & Raman, R. (1998). String Matching Techniques for Musical Similarity and Melodic Recognition. Computing in Musicology, 11 (October 1998), 73-100.
Crawford, T., Iliopoulos, C., Winder, R., & H. Yu. (1999). Approximate Musical Evolution. Proceedings of the AISB Symposium on Musical Creativity (Edinburgh, 1999), 76-81.
Dovey, M. (2002). Overview of the OMRAS Project: Online Music Retrieval and Searching. Submitted to Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology.
Dovey, M., & Crawford, T. (1999). Heuristic Models of Relevance Ranking in Musical Searching. In Proceedings of the Diderot Conference on Music and Mathematics, Vienna, 111-113.
Cambouropoulos, E., Crawford, T., & Iliopoulos, C. (2001). Pattern Processing in Melodic Sequences: Challenges, Caveats and Prospects. In Computers and the Humanities 35(1) (Feb. 2001), 9-21.
Crawford, T., Iliopoulos, C., Winder, R., & Yu, H. (2001). Approximate Musical Evolution. Computers and the Humanities 35(1) (Feb. 2001), 55-64.
Monti, G. (2001). Signal Processing and Music Analysis. PhD Transfer Thesis, King's College London.
Monti, G., Bello, J. P., & Sandler, M. B. (2000). An implementation of Automatic Transcription of Monophonic Music with a Blackboard system. In Proceedings of the Irish Signals and Systems Conference (ISSC '00), Dublin, Ireland.
Monti, G., & Sandler, M. B. (2000). Monophonic Transcription with Autocorrelation. In Proceedings of the COST G-6 Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFX '00), Verona, Italy.
Monti, G., & Sandler, M. B. (2002). Pitch Locking Monophonic Music Analysis. In Proceedings of the 112th AES Convention, Munich, Germany, 10-13 May 2002.
Monti, G., & Sandler, M. B. (2002). Automatic Polyphonic Piano Note Extraction using Fuzzy Logic in a Blackboard System. Submitted to DAFX 2002, Hamburg, Germany, 26-28 September 2002.
Pickens, J. (2000). A Comparison of Language Modeling and Probabilistic Text Information Retrieval Approaches to Monophonic Music Retrieval. In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Information Retrieval (ISMIR), Plymouth, Massachusetts, October, 2000. A version is to appear in Downie, S., Crawford, T. & Byrd, D. (Eds.), Current Research in Music Information Retrieval: Searching Audio, MIDI, and Scores. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Pickens, J. (2001). Feature Selection for Polyphonic Music Retrieval. To appear in Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), New Orleans.
Pickens, J., Bello, J. P., Crawford, T., Dovey, M., Monti, G., & Sandler, M. B. (2002). Polyphonic Score Retrieval Using Polyphonic Audio Queries: A Harmonic Modeling Approach. Submitted to the 3rd International Symposium on Information Retrieval (ISMIR), Paris, France, October 2002.
Pickens, J., & Crawford, T. (2002). Harmonic Models for Polyphonic Music Retrieval. Submitted to the Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), SAIC Headquarters, McLean, VA.
Plumbley, M. D., Abdallah, S. A., Bello, J. P., Davies, M. E.,
Monti, G., & Sandler, M. B. (2002).
Automatic music transcription and audio
source separation.
Submitted to Cybernetics and Systems.
Presentations
Byrd, D. (1999). OMRAS: Online Music Recognition And Searching. NSF Digital Libraries Initiative All-Projects Meeting, Cornell University, October 1999.
Byrd, D. (2000). Problems of Information Retrieval in Polyphonic Music. NSF Digital Libraries Initiative All-Projects Meeting, Stratford-upon-Avon, June 2000.
Byrd, D. (2000). Update on OMRAS: Online Music Recognition And Searching. CIIR, Computer Science Dept., University of Massachusetts/Amherst, February 2000.
Byrd, D. (2001). Problems of Information Retrieval in Polyphonic Music. Invited paper, Spring Meeting, New England Chapter, Music Library Association, MIT, May 2001.
Crawford, T and Boehm, C., co-organisers (1999). Workshop Music Description, Representation and Information Retrieval part of DRH 99 King's College London, 16 Sept 1999
Crawford, T. (2000). Invited attendance at Harmonica meeting on digital music libraries. Paris 7 Jan 2000
Crawford, T. (2000). Invited panel participation in workshop on Music Information Retrieval. International Computer Music Conference (ICMC 2000), Berlin 29 August 2000
Crawford, T. (2001). Recognising Variations. Meeting of the Computer Group of the International Council for Traditional Music, Warsaw, September 19-21, 2001.
Crawford, T. (2002). Recognising Variations. IMS Study Group on Musical Data and Computer Applications, Louvain-le-Neuve, 30 July-1 August, 2002.
Crawford, T. and Dovey, M. (2000). Presentation on OMRAS. London Strings Day 2000 organised by King's College London Algorithm Design Group, KCL/City University, London, 3-4 April 2000
Crawford, T., & Byrd, D. (1997). Musical Data Retrieval using Multiple Indexes. IMS Study Group on Musical Data and Computer Applications, Musical Data Retrieval: Techniques and Interfaces, King's College, London.
Crawford, T., & Sandler, M. B. (2000). OMRAS: Online Musical Recognition And Searching. Hewlett Packard Research Lab, Bristol, Jan. 2000.
Dovey, M. (1999). OMRAS - NSF/JISC Funded International Collaborative Digital Library Project for Online Music Search and Retrieval. Cambridge Workshop on Music Processing, 30 Sept 1999
Dovey, M. and Crawford, T. (2000). Further presentations at NSF Digital Libraries Initiative All-Projects Meeting, Stratford-upon-Avon, June 2000.
Dovey, M., & Crawford, T. (2000). Content-based Searching in the Digital Music Library: Preliminary Steps in the OMRAS project. Musica e Mouse Conference, Dipartimento di Musica e Spettacolo, Universitˆ degli Studi di Bologna, April 2000.
Pickens, J. (2001). Stochastic Models for Polyphonic Music Retrieval. Wheaton College, November 2001.
Pickens, J. (2002). Harmonic Models for Music Information Retrieval. Imperial College of Science and Technology, March 2002.
Pickens, J. (2002). Music Information Retrieval - Strategies and Setbacks. CIIR, Computer Science Dept., University of Massachusetts/Amherst, May 2002.