Paper Info
Title
Access to ethnic music: Advances and perspectives in content-based music information retrieval
Abstract
Access to digital music collections is nowadays facilitated by content-based methods that allow the retrieval of music on the basis of intrinsic properties of audio, in addition to advanced metadata processing. However, access to ethnic music remains problematic, as this music does not always correspond to the Western concepts that underlie the currently available content-based methods. In this paper, we examine the literature on access to ethnic music, while focusing on the reasons why the existing techniques fail or fall short of expectations and what can be done about it. The paper considers a review of the work on signals and feature extraction, on symbolic and semantic information processing, and on metadata and context tools. An overview is given of several European ethnic music archives and related ongoing research projects. Problems are highlighted and suggestions of the ways in which to improve access to ethnic music collections are given.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1016/j.sigpro.2009.06.020
Signal Processing
Keywords
Field
DocType
music information retrieval,digital music collection,western concept,semantic information processing,content-based music information retrieval,context tool,advanced metadata processing,ethnic music collection,available content-based method,european ethnic music archives,music archives,ethnomusicology,access,ethnic music,content-based method,digital music,feature extraction
Metadata,Mathematical optimization,Music information retrieval,Content analysis,World Wide Web,Information processing,Ethnomusicology,Feature extraction,Digital audio,Ethnic group,Multimedia,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
90
4
Signal Processing
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
13
1.10
28
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Olmo Cornelis1767.57
Micheline Lesaffre213016.49
Dirk Moelants37910.82
Marc Leman4445.66