Predominant Local Pulse (Meinard Muller)

ISMIR 2009 Day 2
A very nice paper by Meinard Muller on using local wavelet-style function fitting on spectral differences to improve beat tracking and tempo estimation. Predmonant Local Pulse paper
The technique might have use in rhythmic grouping, which can be expressed as a form of local beat-division tracking.

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This post was written by mcasey on October 27, 2009 Comments (0)

Sound Mixtures: A musician’s delight, an engineer’s nightmare!

Thursday, July 30th Paris Smaragdis presents a talk entitled: Sound Mixtures: A musician’s delight, an engineer’s nightmare!

2PM, Dartmouth College, Room: Wilson 219
Abstract:
Musicians have long embraced polyphony all the way back to the middle ages.  Engineers, even today, are still struggling to come to terms with it.  Traditional audio signal processing has primarily focused on [...]

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This post was written by mcasey on July 29, 2009 Comments (0)