Musical Instrument And Note Recognition Using Computers
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1993
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Researchers have directed a considerable amount of energy towards using computers to generate music, but have spent comparatively little effort on the reverse problem - converting music back into a symbolic form. This research is-therefore aimed at developing the algorithms necessary to identify musical instruments by their sound and recognize the notes being played.
On the purely Computer Science side, the problem is of interest because of its relation to other common problems requiring the separation of a composite input into recognizable parts. This would include speech and visual pattern recognition.
On the artistic side, a solution to the music recognition problem would be ideal to pair with the current music generation systems. Composers would be able to quickly generate sheet music by playing instruments lacking a MIDI interface. On a more advanced level, a musician could remove or make substitutions for selected instruments from a recording.
This research is intended to provide a practical method of instrument and note recognition that is not specific to a particular instrument and that can' be applied to recognize at least two instruments playing at once.
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Program year: 1992/1993
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algorithms, computation, music, musical instruments, note recognition