• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.18-27
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• 2006

Rapid increase of the amount of music data demands for a new method that allows efficient similarity retrieval of music genre using audio features in music databases. To build this similarity retrieval, an indexing techniques that support audio features as a time-series pattern and data mining technologies are needed. In this paper, we address the development of a system that retrieves similar genre music based on the indexing techniques. We first propose the structure of content-based music genre retrieval system based on the time-series pattern index file and data mining technologies. In addition, we implement the time-series pattern index file using audio features and present performance analysis of the time-series pattern index file for similar genre retrieval. The experiments are performed on real data to verify the performance of the proposed method.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.167-174
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• 2009

Music evokes human emotions or creates music moods through various low-level musical features. Typical music clip consists of one or more moods and this can be used as an important criteria for determining the similarity between music clips. In this paper, we propose a new music retrieval scheme based on the mood change patterns of music clips. For this, we first divide music clips into segments based on low level musical features. Then, we apply K-means clustering algorithm for grouping them into clusters with similar features. By assigning a unique mood symbol for each cluster, we can represent each music clip by a sequence of mood symbols. Finally, to estimate the similarity of music clips, we measure the similarity of their musical mood sequence using the Longest Common Subsequence (LCS) algorithm. To evaluate the performance of our scheme, we carried out various experiments and measured the user evaluation. We report some of the results.

• The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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• v.8 no.5
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• pp.109-118
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• 2005

In this paper, we present a music retrieval system that compares the geometric structure of a melody specified by a user with those in a music database. The system finds matches between a query melody and melodies in the database by analyzing both structural and contextual features. The retrieval method is based on the geometric hashing algorithm which consists of two steps; the preprocessing step and the recognition step. During the preprocessing step, we divide a melody into several fragments and analyze the pitch and duration of each note of the fragments to find a structural feature. To find a contextual feature, we find a main chord for each fragment. During the recognition step, we divide the query melody specified by a user into several fragments and search through all fragments in the database that are structurally and contextually similar to the melody. A vote is cast for each of the fragments and the music whose total votes are the maximum is the music that contains a matching melody against the query melody. Using our approach, we can find similar melodies in a music database quickly. We can also apply the method to detect plagiarism in music.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.192-195
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• 2008

People have tendency of forgetting music title, though they easily remember particular part of music. If a music search system can find the title through a part of melody, this will provide very convenient interface to users. In this paper, we propose an algorithm that enables this type of search using feature transformation function. The original music is transformed to new feature information with sequential melodies. When a melody that is a part of search music is given to the system, the music retrieval system searches the music similar to the feature information of the melody. Moreover, this transformation function can be easily extended to various music recognition systems.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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• v.10D no.3
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• pp.547-558
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• 2003

From the viewpoint of that music melody has the similar features to time-series data, music melody is transformed to a time-series data with normalization and corrections and the similarity between melodies is defined as the Euclidean distance between the transformed time-series data. Then, based the similarity between melodies of a music object, melodies are clustered and the representative of each cluster is extracted as one of theme melodies for the music. To construct the theme melody index, a theme melody is represented as a point of the multidimensional metric space of M-tree. For retrieval of user's query melody, the query melody is also transformed into a time-series data by the same way of indexing phase. To retrieve the similar melodies to the query melody given by user from the theme melody index the range query search algorithm is used. By the implementation of the prototype system using the proposed theme melody index we show the effectiveness of the proposed methods.

• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.30 no.5
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• pp.507-520
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• 2003

In this paper, an automatic construction method of theme melody index for large music database and an associative content-based music retrieval mechanism in which the constructed theme melody index is mainly used to improve the users' response time are proposed. First, the system automatically extracted the theme melody from a music file by the graphical clustering algorithm based on the similarities between motifs of the music. To place an extracted theme melody into the metric space of M-tree, we chose the average length variation and the average pitch variation of the theme melody as the major features. Moreover, we added the pitch signature and length signature which summarize the pitch variation pattern and the length variation pattern of a theme melody, respectively, to increase the precision of retrieval results. We also proposed the associative content-based music retrieval mechanism in which the k-nearest neighborhood searching and the range searching algorithms of M-tree are used to select the similar melodies to user's query melody from the theme melody index. To improve the users' satisfaction, the proposed retrieval mechanism includes ranking and user's relevance feedback functions. Also, we implemented the proposed mechanisms as the essential components of content-based music retrieval systems to verify the usefulness.

• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.34 no.5
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• pp.409-419
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• 2007

Database community focuses on the similar music retrieval systems for music database when a humming query is given. One of the approaches is converting the midi data to time series, building their indices and performing the similarity search on them. Queries based on humming can be transformed to time series by using the known pitch detection algorithms. The recently suggested algorithm, scaled and warped matching, is based on dynamic time warping and uniform scaling. This paper proposes Humming BIRD(Humming Based sImilaR mini music retrieval system) using sliding window and center-aligned scaled and warped matching. Center-aligned scaled and warped matching is a mixed distance measure of center-aligned uniform scaling and time warping. The newly proposed measure gives tighter lower bound than previous ones which results in reduced search space. The empirical results show the superiority of this algorithm comparing the pruning power while it returns the same results.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.11 no.4 s.42
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• pp.137-145
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• 2006

A user remembers a melody as not the combination of pitch and duration which is written in score but the contour which is composed of the relative pitch and duration. Because of the way of remembering a melody the previous Music Information Retrieval Systems which uses keyboard Playing or score as the main input melody are not easily acceptable in Query By Humming Systems. In this paper, we mention about the considerable checkpoints for Query By Humming System and previous researches. And we propose the feature extraction which is similar with the way of remembering a melody and similarity computation algorithms between melody in humming and melody in music. The proposed similarity computation algorithms solves the problem which can be happened when only uses the relative pitches by using relative durations.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.45-52
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• 2022

With the development of artificial intelligence analysis methods, especially machine learning, various fields are widely expanding their application ranges. However, in the case of classical music, there still remain some difficulties in applying machine learning techniques. Genre classification or music recommendation systems generated by deep learning algorithms are actively used in general music, but not in classical music. In this paper, we attempted to classify opera among classical music. To this end, an experiment was conducted to determine which criteria are most suitable among, composer, period of composition, and emotional atmosphere, which are the basic features of music. To generate emotional labels, we adopted zero-shot classification with four basic emotions, 'happiness', 'sadness', 'anger', and 'fear.' After embedding the opera libretto with the doc2vec processing model, the optimal number of clusters is computed based on the result of the elbow method. Decided four centroids are then adopted in k-means clustering to classify unsupervised libretto datasets. We were able to get optimized clustering based on the result of adjusted rand index scores. With these results, we compared them with notated variables of music. As a result, it was confirmed that the four clusterings calculated by machine after training were most similar to the grouping result by period. Additionally, we were able to verify that the emotional similarity between composer and period did not appear significantly. At the end of the study, by knowing the period is the right criteria, we hope that it makes easier for music listeners to find music that suits their tastes.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2006.10c
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• pp.183-188
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• 2006

허밍을 통한 유사 검색 질의가 주어질 때 효과적으로 음악 데이터베이스를 검색하는 시스템에 대한 연구는 다양한 방향으로 진행되어 왔다. 최근에는 음악 데이터와 허밍 질의를 시계열 데이터로 보고 시계열 데이터 유사 검색과 관련하여 제안되어 왔던 여러 가지 거리 척도(distance measure)나 인덱싱 기법등을 적용하여 효과적으로 질의를 처리하려는 시도가 계속 되고 있다. 허밍 질의의 특성을 고려한 균일 스케일링(Uniform Scaling)을 사용하여 효과적인 유사 검색을 하는 방법은 가장 최근 제시된 방법 중 하나이다. 본 논문에서는 허밍을 통한 유사 검색 시스템인 Humming BIRD(Humming Based similaR miDi music retrieval system)를 제안하고 구현하였다. 슬라이딩 윈도우를 사용하여 음악의 임의의 부분에 대한 허밍 질의를 처리할 수 있도록 하였으며 효율적인 검색을 위해 중심을 일치시킨(center-aligned) 균일 스케일링을 제안하고 이 거리의 하한을 계산하는 하계 함수를 사용하여 탐색 공간(search space)을 효과적으로 줄여 더 빠르고 효과적인 유사 검색을 가능하도록 하였으며 실험을 통해 중심을 일치시킨된 균일 스케일링이 이전과 같은 검색 결과를 얻으면서도 효과적으로 검색함을 탐색 공간을 줄이는 가지치기 성능을 비교함으로써 보였다.