Content-based navigation of music using melodic pitch contours

  • Authors:

  • David C. De Roure;Steven G. Blackburn

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK;Department of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK

  • Venue:
  • Multimedia Systems - Special issue: Multimedia authoring and presentation techniques
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

We describe a system which supports dynamic user interaction with multimedia information using content-based hypermedia navigation techniques, specialising in a technique for navigation of musical content. The model combines the principles of open hypermedia, whereby hypermedia link information is maintained by a link service, with content-based retrieval techniques in which a database is queried based on a feature of the multimedia content; our approach could be described as 'content-based retrieval of hypermedia links'. The experimental system focuses on temporal media and consists of a set of component-based navigational hypermedia tools. We propose the use of melodic pitch contours in this context and we present techniques for storing and querying contours, together with experimental results. Techniques for integrating the contour database with open hypermedia systems are also discussed.