Dr. Alexandra L. Uitdenbogerd
School of Computer Science and IT, RMIT University
Date and time: 11.30am - 12.30pm, Friday 5th September, 2008
Venue: 10.08.04 (Building 10, Level 8, Room 4)
Abstract:
The Sing Search system prototype that was demonstrated at RMIT Open Day allows a user to sing a melody into a microphone and provides a list of the closest matching songs.
The system consists of a user interface that allows the capture of audio melody queries, a simple transcriber that converts the melody to a pitch sequence, and a back end
that performs melody matching to produce a ranked list of answers to the query. In this talk I will describe the technology behind the system, practical considerations,
the limitations and further research on techniques for "query-by-singing".
About the speaker:
Alexandra L. Uitdenbogerd is a senior lecturer in Computer Science at RMIT. Her main research interests are music information retrieval (MIR), computer-assisted language learning, and search engine
technology. Currently she is supervising two PhD students with MIR research topics and another who is researching authorship attribution. In addition she sings, records, composes and occasionally plays an
instrument in various musical genres.
Organizer: Dr. Falk Scholer