Visualizing music and audio using self-similarity

  • Authors:
  • Jonathan Foote

  • Affiliations:
  • FX Palo Alto Laboratory, Inc., 3400 Hillview Ave., Building 4, Palo Alto, CA

  • Venue:
  • MULTIMEDIA '99 Proceedings of the seventh ACM international conference on Multimedia (Part 1)
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

This paper presents a novel approach to visualizing the time structure of music and audio. The acoustic similarity between any two instants of an audio recording is displayed in a 2D representation, allowing identification of structural and rhythmic characteristics. Examples are presented for classical and popular music. Applications include content-based analysis and segmentation, as well as tempo and structure extraction.