C. Malliopoulos, S. Raptis, S. Bakamidis, A. Georgaki
{"title":"Music editors for visually-impaired persons: user interface specifications and system design","authors":"C. Malliopoulos, S. Raptis, S. Bakamidis, A. Georgaki","doi":"10.1109/WDM.2001.990174","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WDM.2001.990174","url":null,"abstract":"The authors describe in detail the user interface specifications and system design of a software module that permits blind musicians to edit musical content in electronic form. First we take account of user requirements for this special-purpose software and, based on that, we provide a set of user interface specifications. Keyboard navigation and speech output are described in some detail. According to the specifications provided, we propose a system design in the context of WEDELMUSIC software.","PeriodicalId":280252,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings First International Conference on WEB Delivering of Music. WEDELMUSIC 2001","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131796572","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Florian Pestoni, J. Wolf, Md. Ahsan Habib, Amy Mueller
{"title":"KARC: radio research","authors":"Florian Pestoni, J. Wolf, Md. Ahsan Habib, Amy Mueller","doi":"10.1109/WDM.2001.990169","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WDM.2001.990169","url":null,"abstract":"In the emerging markets for digital content distribution, traditional models for content programming still predominate. But there is a large potential for innovation and improvement in content selection to better meet consumers' demand for entertainment and news. We have developed a new paradigm and supporting technology to customize audience content to their specific preferences. One can identify several selection models for groups of individuals with similar interests in music, video, or other multimedia content to jointly customize a distribution channel. Our approach represents a balance between the two most widespread models available today, namely broadcasting and individual playback such as CD/DVD players. Using technologies such as data mining, multicasting and smart players, our model gives listeners access to automatic shared playlists. This kind of customized narrowcasting is especially applicable to distribution of content for which there is high demand for repeat listening or viewing, while at the same time being very idiosyncratic. Our approach can provide significant advantages to consumers, distribution channels, content owners and advertisers alike. We present the basic collaborative content programming algorithms and describe initial experiences with this new paradigm. Specifically, we describe KARC, a prototype of an Internet multichannel virtual radio station environment deployed at the IBM Almaden Research Center.","PeriodicalId":280252,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings First International Conference on WEB Delivering of Music. WEDELMUSIC 2001","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134511941","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Real time musical events streaming over Internet","authors":"D. Fober, Y. Orlarey, S. Letz","doi":"10.1109/WDM.2001.990170","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WDM.2001.990170","url":null,"abstract":"We present a novel protocol to transmit time ordered events in real-time over the Internet and to operate a correct time rendering on the receiver side. This protocol provides solutions to compensate for the network latency, to optimize the bandwidth use and to take account of the clock drift of the different stations involved in a transmission. It is particularly suitable to transmit musical events such as MIDI events. The implementation is based on the User Datagram Protocol (UDP), however, the proposed solution is independent of the underlying network layers.","PeriodicalId":280252,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings First International Conference on WEB Delivering of Music. WEDELMUSIC 2001","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133874635","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Canazza, Alvise Vidolin, Giovanni De Poli, C. Drioli, A. Rodà
{"title":"Expressive morphing for interactive performance of musical scores","authors":"S. Canazza, Alvise Vidolin, Giovanni De Poli, C. Drioli, A. Rodà","doi":"10.1109/WDM.2001.990166","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WDM.2001.990166","url":null,"abstract":"The fruition of musical score by means of multimedia systems requires a suitable model for automatic or interactive expressive music performance. The authors present a method for controlling the mutable musical expressiveness in an abstract way, not necessarily working directly on the acoustic parameters. Our approach integrates symbolic and audio processing in a real-time networked environment. We present a mapping strategy allowing one to control and vary the expressiveness in a coherent way, by means of an abstract \"control space\". All the variations computed by the model on the symbolic representation are successively managed by the signal processing sub-system which coherently transforms the sound by a combination of different audio effects. The signal processing engine works in real time to render the desired expressive audio variations. The model is used interactively in a Web-based environment. The user controls the expressive character of the performance by moving within an appropriate control space.","PeriodicalId":280252,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings First International Conference on WEB Delivering of Music. WEDELMUSIC 2001","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116371938","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"High capacity information hiding in music scores","authors":"W. Funk, M. Schmucker","doi":"10.1109/WDM.2001.990153","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WDM.2001.990153","url":null,"abstract":"Intellectual property rights (IPR) management is an important issue for everybody dealing with digital distribution of data. Especially the protection of music scores is essential for publishers who want to distribute their music sheets via the Internet. Scanned music scores are a media type publishers are interested in. Classical raster-oriented watermarking schemes cannot be applied directly for music scores because most of them embed a watermark in the frequency domain. The reason for this is the fact that watermarks for music scores must be robust against greyscale to binary conversion. We present an extension of a binary watermarking technique which creates a high capacity information channel for embedding data while limiting the degradation of the watermarked music scores. Thus, watermarked music scores are still valuable for musicians and publishers. Limiting the degradation is done by using only certain symbols (horizontal line segments)for embedding the watermark.","PeriodicalId":280252,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings First International Conference on WEB Delivering of Music. WEDELMUSIC 2001","volume":"127 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131581688","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Classification of melodies by composer with hidden Markov models","authors":"E. Pollastri, G. Simoncelli","doi":"10.1109/WDM.2001.990162","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WDM.2001.990162","url":null,"abstract":"The authors use hidden Markov models (HMMs) for abstracting the style of a composer and for recognizing it from an unknown excerpt. We employed a data set of 605 musical themes written by five well-known composers (Mozart, Beethoven, Dvorak, Stravinsky, Beatles). A preliminary investigation based on descriptive statistics served the purpose of choosing a group of suitable music representations. Then, for each representation and for each composer a HMM was trained with the subset of melodic lines extracted from the pieces. An unknown melody is then classified as belonging to a composer if the corresponding HMM gives the highest probability for that sequence. Experiments with Markov chains and tests on human subjects were used as a term of comparison. The best results achieved with HMMs was 42% successful classifications on average, obtained with an alphabet of intervals between -10 and +10 semitones and with HMMs of order 18. In the case of human classification based only on stylistic assumption, we measured 24.6% for music amateurs and 48% for music experts. In conclusion, HMMs performed nearly as well as a music expert in the classification of melodies by composer, nevertheless, memory models have been proven to play a fundamental role in the process of music classification and need to be taken into consideration for practical applications.","PeriodicalId":280252,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings First International Conference on WEB Delivering of Music. WEDELMUSIC 2001","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132395461","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Watermarking music sheets while printing","authors":"Massimo Monsignori, P. Nesi, M. B. Spinu","doi":"10.1109/WDM.2001.990155","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WDM.2001.990155","url":null,"abstract":"Watermarking allows hiding of information in digital objects such as images, videos, audio files and text pages. These techniques are adopted to hide codes that can be used to demonstrate the digital object's ownership in case of verification of copyright infringement. A novel technique for watermarking music in the phase of music sheet printing is presented. The solution was obtained by taking into account the skills of musicians in detecting changes in the music sheets. A validation of the results obtained has been performed by using technical verification of robustness and a group of experts.","PeriodicalId":280252,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings First International Conference on WEB Delivering of Music. WEDELMUSIC 2001","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116810657","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}