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Key research themes
1. How can compression-based similarity metrics be used for automatic music classification and clustering?
This research area focuses on developing universal, compression-based similarity metrics that do not rely on domain-specific musical features but capture diverse aspects of music similarity for tasks such as genre classification, composer clustering, and organization of large music libraries. Such methods have broad applicability across data types while enabling unsupervised and fully automatic music classification.
Key finding: Introduced a fully automatic music classification method based solely on a universal similarity metric derived from Kolmogorov complexity and information distance approximated via standard compression techniques. It achieves... Read more
Key finding: Applied a convolutional neural network-based OMR system to classify thousands of musical symbols from early 17th century prints, facilitating digital encoding into Music Encoding Initiative (MEI) XML. This automation enables... Read more
Key finding: Demonstrated via large-scale double-blind listening tests that ACER, a novel codec exploiting musical repetition for compression, achieves comparable subjective audio quality to prevalent psychoacoustic codecs (AAC, MP3).... Read more
2. What methods can be used to convert Optical Music Recognition (OMR) outputs into standard semantic music encodings to enable digital music processing?
This theme addresses the challenge of transforming the graphical, often ambiguous output of OMR systems into standard, interpretable semantic encodings (e.g., MusicXML, MEI) essential for musicological analysis, editing, and interoperability. The focus is on developing translation approaches—rule-based, statistical, and neural machine translation—that bridge between visual symbol representations and semantic notation while addressing their unique characteristics different from natural language.
Key finding: Proposed using machine translation techniques, including statistical and neural models, to convert OMR outputs represented as sequences of graphical symbols into standard semantic music encodings. This method handles the... Read more
Key finding: Demonstrated the development of IntelliOMR, an OMR system using supervised CNNs to classify early 17th-century music print symbols, coupled with conversion into MEI XML format. This pipeline offers a practical example of... Read more
Key finding: Presented a workflow and novel notation format (**mens) for efficient manual encoding of early mensural music, enabling quick transcription that can be converted into MEI, Lilypond, and MusicXML. This assists in producing... Read more
Key finding: Showcased the use of MusicXML, mensural, and **kern formats encoded from transcriptions of Spanish folk and polyphonic music, rendered through Verovio. The platform demonstrates effective digitization and semantic encoding... Read more
3. Which audio compression and encoding techniques optimize musical data representation while preserving perceptual and structural fidelity?
This theme investigates compression algorithms specifically designed for audio and musical signals that focus on balancing data reduction with perceptual sound quality and preservation of musical structure. It encompasses lossy and lossless methods utilizing psychoacoustic models, transform coding, pattern exploitation (such as repetition), and novel coding schemas, as well as their validation by objective metrics and subjective listening tests.
Key finding: Conducted rigorous double-blind listening tests showing that the ACER codec, which exploits musical repetition to compress data, achieves perceptual audio quality comparable to standard codecs like AAC and MP3, validating its... Read more
Key finding: Proposed an audio compression scheme using normalized audio, discrete cosine transform (DCT), scalar quantization, improved run-length encoding, and novel high order shift coding with a post-processing filter, achieving... Read more
Key finding: Developed a novel audio compression method converting digitized audio files into text representations using a 6-bit coding hybrid technique alongside common compression schemes. This conversion facilitates efficient data... Read more
Key finding: Introduced a predictive lossless audio coding method based on Weighted Cascaded Least Mean Squares (WCLMS) predictors designed specifically for music and speech signals. Evaluations showed superior compression ratios and low... Read more