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The temperament police
(Oxford University Press, 2014-10-11)Keyboard temperaments have been extensively discussed in historical treatises as well as more recent scholarly texts. The work presented in this article aims to provide a unique perspective on the subject, by applying ... -
Template Adaptation for Improving Automatic Music Transcription
(2014-10-27)In this work, we propose a system for automatic music transcription which adapts dictionary templates so that they closely match the spectral shape of the instrument sources present in each recording. Current dictionary-based ... -
Tension ribbons: Quantifying and visualising tonal tension.
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Theorems on positive data: on the uniqueness of NMF.
(2008)We investigate the conditions for which nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) is unique and introduce several theorems which can determine whether the decomposition is in fact unique or not. The theorems are illustrated ... -
Towards a Music Language Model for Audio Analysis
(Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary University of London, 2016-12-20)Polyphonic Automatic Music Transcription remains a challenging problem. Many studies focus on the extraction of features from audio signals; we focus here on Music Language Models that help turn those features into a ... -
Towards HMM-based glissando detection for recordings of Chinese bamboo flute
(2018-09-23)Playing techniques such as ornamentations and articulation effects constitute important aspects of music performance. However, their computational analysis is still under-explored due to a lack of data and established ... -
Towards joint sound scene and polyphonic sound event recognition
(International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), 2019-09-15)Acoustic Scene Classification (ASC) and Sound Event Detection (SED) are two separate tasks in the field of computational sound scene analysis. In this work, we present a new dataset with both sound scene and sound event ... -
Usability and Design of Personal Wearable and Portable Devices for Thermal Comfort
(2016-07-14)Personal comfort is important in the design of objects and environments. However, as comfort is a subjective experience, it is a very difficult aspect to design for. This paper presents an interrogation into the design for ...