Towards Seed-Free Music Playlist Generation: Enhancing collaborative Filtering with Playlist Title Information

In this paper, we propose a hybrid Neural Collaborative Filtering (NCF) model trained with a multi-objective function to achieve a music playlist generation system. The proposed approach focuses particularly on the cold-start problem (playlists with no seed tracks) and uses a text encoder employing a Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) to exploit...

Novelty-based cognitive processes in unstructured music-making settings in early childhood

Humans have the capacity to invent novel ideas and to create new artifacts that affect the surrounding environment. However, it is unclear how this capacity emerges and develops in biological systems. This paper presents an empirical study which investigates the development of novelty-based cognitive processes in the context of unstructured...

A Formalization of Relative Local Tempo Variations in Collections of Performances

Multiple performances of the same piece share similarities, but also show relevant dissimilarities. With regard to the latter, analyzing and quantifying variations in collections of performances is useful to understand how a musical piece is typically performed, how naturally sounding new interpretations could be rendered, or what is peculiar...

DUT-MMSR at MediaEval 2017: Predicting Media Interestingness Task

This paper describes our approach for the submission to the Media-eval 2017 Predicting Media Interestingness Task, which was particularlydeveloped for the Image subtask. An approach using a late fusion strategy is employed, combining classifiers from different features by stacking them using logistic regression (LR). As the task ground truth...

Go With the Flow: When Listeners use Music as Technology

Music has been shown to have a profound effect on lis-teners' internal states as evidenced by neuroscience research. Listeners report selecting and listening to music with specific intent, thereby using music as a tool to achieve desired psychological effects within a given context. In light of these observations, we argue that music information...

Comparative analysis of orchestral performance recordings: An image-based approach

Traditionally, the computer-assisted comparison of multiple performances of the same piece focused on performances on single instruments. Due to data availability, there also has been a strong bias towards analyzing piano performances, in which local timing, dynamics and articulation are important expressive performance features. In this paper,...

Put the concert attendee in the spotlight: A user-centered design and development approach for classical concert applications

As the importance of real-life use cases in the music information retrieval (MIR) field is increasing, so does the importance of understanding user needs. The development of innovative real-life applications that draw on MIR technology requires a user-centered design and development approach that assesses user needs and aligns them with...

Exploring microblog activity for the prediction of hyperlink anchors in television broadcasts

In this paper, we present a social media based approach to finding anchors in video archives. We use social activity on Twitter to find topics on which people have questions about in order to select suitable anchors. The experiments were carried out on the MediaEval Search and Anchoring in Video Archives Task (SAVA) data set, consisting of 68...

Mass Media Musical Meaning: Opportunities from the Collaborative Web

In the digital domain, music is usually studied from a positivist viewpoint, focusing on general ‘objective’ music descriptors. In this work, we strive to put music in a more social and cultural context, looking into ways to unify data analysis methods with thoughts from the humanities on musical meaning and significance. More specifically, we...

A tablet app to enrich the live and post-live experience of classical concerts

This demonstration paper describes a tablet application that is developed to make classical concerts more accessible and more enjoyable for a broader audience. The app offers interactive visualizations of a symphony’s instrumentation and its score. It also offers timed background information about the piece, the composer, and the historical...

Cover song retrieval: A comparative study of system component choices

The Cover Song Retrieval (CSR) problem has received considerable attention in the MIREX 2006-2008 evaluation sessions. While the reported performance figures provide a general idea about the strengths of the submitted systems, it is not clear what actually causes the reported performance of a certain system. In other words, the question...