Reliability-informed beat tracking of musical signals

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 290-301

  Degara, Norberto ^a   Rua, Enrique Argones ^a   Pena, Antonio ^a   Torres Guijarro, Soledad ^a   Davies, Matthew E P ^b   Plumbley, Mark D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

beat quality; Beat tracking; beat tracking reliability; k nearest neighbor (k NN) regression; music signal processing

Indexed keywords

MOTION COMPENSATION; NEAREST NEIGHBOR SEARCH; RELIABILITY;

BEAT TRACKING; K-NEAREST NEIGHBORS; MUSIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; MUSICAL AUDIO; MUSICAL SIGNALS; PROBABILISTIC FRAMEWORK; REGRESSION ALGORITHMS; RELIABILITY INFORMATION;

AUDIO ACOUSTICS;

EID: 81355122940     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2011.2160854     Document Type: Article

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