VORTRAG ******* Oesterreichisches Forschungsinstitut fuer Artificial Intelligence(OeFAI) Freyung 6/6, A-1010 Wien Tel.: +43-1-53361120, Fax: +43-1-5336112-77, Email: sec@oefai.at ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Simon Dixon Senior Researcher OeFAI, Wien TOWARDS CHARACTERISATION OF MUSIC VIA RHYTMIC PATTERNS A central problem in music information retrieval is finding suitable representations which enable efficient and accurate computation of musical similarity and identity. Many aspects of music can only be captured by considering high level features. In this work, bar-length rhythmic patterns are automatically extracted from the audio signal and used as features for genre classification. Standard classification algorithms are utilised to discriminate 8 classes of Standard and Latin ballroom dance music with a classification rate of up to 96%. ********* Zeit: Dienstag, 21. Dezember 2004, 18:00 Uhr pktl. Ort: Oesterreichisches Forschungsinstitut fuer Artificial Intelligence Freyung 6/6, 3. Stock, 1010 Wien. OESTERREICHISCHES FORSCHUNGSINSTITUT FUER ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE o.Univ.-Prof. Ing. Dr. Robert Trappl