Robust polyphonic music retrieval with N-grams

Journal of Intelligent Information Systems

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 53-70

  Doraisamy, Shyamala ^a   Rüger, Stefan ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fault tolerance; N grams; Polyphonic music retrieval; Query by example; Query by humming

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC INDEXING; CODING ERRORS; COMPUTER MUSIC; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; QUERY LANGUAGES;

MONOPHONIC QUERY; POLYPHONIC MUSIC RETRIEVAL; POLYPHONIC QUERY; QUERY-BY-EXAMPLE; QUERY-BY-HUMMING;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0037939797     PISSN: 09259902     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1023553801115     Document Type: Article

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