VORTRAG ******* Oesterreichisches Forschungsinstitut fuer Artificial Intelligence(OFAI) Freyung 6/6, A-1010 Wien Tel.: +43-1-53361120, Fax: +43-1-5336112-77, Email: sec@ofai.at ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Masataka Goto (AIST, Japan) http://staff.aist.go.jp/m.goto/ MUSIC SCENE DESCRIPTION AND ITS APPLICATIONS Our research project "music scene description" aims to achieve an understanding of musical audio signals at the level of untrained listeners. This contrasts with most studies in the past that aimed to achieve it at the level of trained musicians by identifying all musical notes forming a musical score or obtaining segregated signals from sound mixtures. Music scene description features the description of "scenes" that occur within a musical performance such as hierarchical beat structure, melody line, bass line, repeated sections, and chorus sections. In this talk, I introduce our real-time methods for obtaining descriptions of such scenes. Several applications we developed by using those methods are also described, including a beat-driven computer graphics dancer "Cindy" and a music listening station with chorus-search function "SmartMusicKIOSK". ********* Zeit: Freitag, 25. November 2005, 14:00 Uhr pktl. Ort: Oesterreichisches Forschungsinstitut fuer Artificial Intelligence, OFAI Freyung 6, Stiege 6, 1010 Wien. OESTERREICHISCHES FORSCHUNGSINSTITUT FUER ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE o.Univ.-Prof. Ing. Dr. Robert Trappl