Music Information Retrieval / Extracción y Recuperación de Información Musical

Departament de Llenguatges i Sistemes Informàtics
Departamento de Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos

	Music Information Retrieval (MIR)

Course from the Master in Machine Learning and Data Mining

In conjunction with "Extracción y Recuperación de Información Musical" (ERIM) from the Máster Oficial en Tecnologías de la Informática.

Course structure:

It will be divided into six thematic units:

Introduction: The discipline of computer music research
(25/9)
Psychoacoustics
(25/9, 30/9)
Representation, description and analysis of symbolic information
(2/10, 7/10, 14/10)
Representation, description and analysis of sound
(16/10, 21/10, 23/10)
Description and analysis using metadata
(6/11)
Practical aspects of sound, symbols and metadata
(5/11, 18/11, 25/11)

There are other pages with course materials. These pages will be announced during the lectures. They include:

(in reverse publiaction date order)

Deadlines update for assignments:

Questionnaire Q3 has been published in the stuff page. Initiallly, the deadline is one week, so we can consider to be next friday 14/11. As always, do not hesitate to e-mail us if you have doubts in the questionnaire, and to ask for more time if you are in need of it. Anyway, as the end of the course is approaching and there are other homeworks awaiting is it advisable not to delay this questionnaire too much.
The list of papers for reviewing has also been published. Please, select one according to your interests or preferences and send me (Iñesta) the title for reservation. I will be assigning them by order of mail income.
Next class will be tuesday 18/11. 2nd practical session.

Today is the first practical session of the course. Instructions to build the training sets have been added at the course pad.
The slides of topic 5 have been published in the stuff page.
Tomorrow 6/11 is the last theoretical lecture, so the last questionnarie (Q3) will be published and also the list of papers for choosing the one to review.

Slides of topic 4 have been updated with some corrections.
Deadline for questionnarie 2 has been delayed to monday, 27th, after the autumn break, as requested.
Questionnary 1 has been already graded. Marks will be sent by e-mail to the students.
Don't forget that you should have installed Sonic-Visualiser and Sonic-Annotator on your computers. Also Weka is supposed to be installed too.

The second questionnarie was published tonight. Due to next friday 24th. If you need some extra time or help, don't hesitate to ask.

All the announements here will be also published at the course pad at https://etherpad.mozilla.org/mldm-mir-2014
We will mantain this page until the end of this course, anyway.
Slides for parts 2 and 3 have been updated. They are always under revision, so do not print them (if you want to) until the corresponding topic is over.

Today's class and the next one will be given by Pedro J. Ponce de León. Say hello to him!
We have created a pad for the course, with the same tool other courses have used, at https://etherpad.mozilla.org/mldm-mir-2014
We will try to learn how to use it along the way but it opens promising tools for us to communicate.

The first questionnarie was already published. Do not hesitate to e-mail us if you have doubts with it.
Scheduled solving period for it is one week from delivery. Instructions are included in it.
The slides for the part 3 of the course have been updated in the stuff page, mainly correcting errors.

The slides for the parts 1 and 2 of the course have been updated in the stuff page after the first class, including more information about the course and correcting errors.
The course tentative structure has been published at the stuff page.
Do not forget that you have the class sound samples at the samples page.