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HARMONIC MODELING FOR POLYPHONIC MUSIC RETRIEVAL A Dissertation Presented
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Pickens, Jeremy Croft, W. Bruce Raphael, Christopher Byrd, Donald |
| Copyright Year | 2004 |
| Abstract | ACKNOWLEDGMENTS It is incredible to me to realize that writing my doctoral dissertation is nearing an end. I arrived at graduate school not quite knowing what to expect from the entire research process. I am leaving with a profound understanding of how enjoyable that process is. As I began my transition into graduate work, I was supported by the generous assistance of many fellow students currently in the program whom I thank, especially Warren Greiff and Lisa Ballesteros. As my work progressed, so did my collaborations and discussions. Essential among these have been evaluation methodology discussions with Dawn Lawrie and probabilistic modeling discussions with Victor Lavrenko. In 1999 the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval at UMass received an NSF Digital Libraries Phase II grant to begin work on music information retrieval systems. Donald Byrd invited me to be a part of this project, which led to this dissertation. I am grateful to him for extending this opportunity as well as for our numerous discussions and constructive arguments related to both text and music information retrieval matters. He is in many ways directly responsible for many of the directions this work took. Furthermore, all figures in this work that depict music in conventional notation format were generated by his Nightingale program; however, I assume full responsibility for any errors in the application of that notation. The research team (OMRAS) formed in part by our grant included collaborators in the United Kingdom. From that team, Tim Crawford has been an invaluable support, co-formulating many of the ideas in this dissertation and helping fill the numerous gaps in my music education. In particular, the original idea for the harmonic description used as part of the harmonic modeling process was an idea that we both struck upon at the same time, but Tim was instrumental in fleshing out most of the important details. Matthew Dovey has also been a helpful sounding board and was instrumental in obtaining permission from Naxos to use portions of their audio collection as queries. provided aid not only in terms of audio transcription, but in helping identify the problems we were trying to solve. I thank my committee members for their many helpful comments, corrections, and suggestions, encouraging and pushing me to explore directions in which I otherwise might not have gone. Without the data from the Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities, I would not have … |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://ciir.cs.umass.edu/pubfiles/ir-358.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.cs.umass.edu/~jeremy/publications/jeremypickens_dissertation.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
