A tempo-sensitive music search engine with multimodal inputs

  • Authors:
  • Yu Yi;Yinsheng Zhou;Ye Wang

  • Affiliations:
  • National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore;National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore;National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

  • Venue:
  • MIRUM '11 Proceedings of the 1st international ACM workshop on Music information retrieval with user-centered and multimodal strategies
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

This paper presents TMSE: a novel Tempo-sensitive Music Search Engine with multimodal inputs for wellness and therapeutic applications. TMSE integrates six different interaction modes, Query-by-Number, Query-by-Sliding, Query-by-Example, Query-by-Tapping, Query-by-Clapping, and Query-by-Walking, into one single interface for narrowing the intention gap when a user searches for music by tempo. Our preliminary evaluation results indicate that multimodal inputs of TMSE enable users to formulate tempo related queries more easily in comparison with existing music search engines.