Week 5 - Audio Feature Extraction III - Higher level features

Notes:

• Rhythm and Pitch

Ipython notebooks:

• Audio Features IIIa-Tempo
• Audio Features IIIb-Pitch

Homework 5

due: Friday 14th February

Use pitch or tempo extractors from an existing library (Essentia, Marsyas, librosa, etc.) to extract tempo and beat information from your collection. Verify the results, to try to identify wrong estimations and discuss the reasons for this.

Reading

due: Friday 14th February

Klapuri, A., & Davy, M. (2006). Signal Processing Methods for Music Transcription. Part II- Chapter 4: Beat Tracking and Musical Metre Analysis. Pages 101-127.

Further Reading

Lerch, A. (n.d.). Chapter 6: Temporal analysis. In An Introduction to Audio Content Analysis (pp. 119–137).