MPhil Thesis Defence


"AUTUMN: A General Pitch-Extraction Wave-to-MIDI Transcription System"

By

Mr. Kevin Joseph DI FILIPPO


Abstract

Automatic Music Transcription is an area of active research at the
intersection of Computer Science and Music, of interest for both
theoretical and practical applications.  We propose two Wave-to-MIDI
transcription systems: Basic AUTUMN and V-AUTUMN.  Both systems achieve
their goal by performing window-by-window frequency-domain pitch
extraction.  Minimal assumptions are made on the content of the input
signal. Results show that Basic AUTUMN and V-AUTUMN succeed at detecting a
considerable number of notes; V-AUTUMN additionally minimises false
detections.


Date:				Monday, 22 August 2005

Time:				10:00a.m.-12:00noon

Venue:				Room 2303
				Lifts 17-18

Committee Members:		Dr. Andrew Horner (Supervisor)
				Prof. Vincent Shen (Chairperson)
                        	Dr. Chiew-Lan Tai


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