Using the similarity of main melodies to identify cover versions of popular songs for music document retrieval

Journal of Information Science and Engineering

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1669-1687

  Tsai, Wei Ho ^a   Yu, Hung Ming ^b   Wang, Hsin Min ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Accompaniments; Content based music retrieval; Cover version; Main melody; Polyphonic

Indexed keywords

ACCOMPANIMENTS; CONTENT-BASED MUSIC RETRIEVAL; COVER VERSION; MAIN MELODY; POLYPHONIC;

EID: 57049169805     PISSN: 10162364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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