A Query by Tapping System is a multi-media database containing rhythmic metadata descriptions of songs. This paper presents a Query by Tapping system called BeatBank. The system allows to formulate queries by tapping the melody line?s rhythm of a song requested on a MIDI keyboard or an e-drum. The query entered is converted into an MPEG-7 compliant representation. The actual search process takes only rhythmic aspects of the melodies into ac-count by comparing the values of the MPEG-7 Beat Description Scheme. An efficiently computable similarity measure is presented which enables the comparison of two database entries. This system works in real-time and computes the search process online. It computes and presents a new search result list after every tap made by the user.

Authors: Eisenberg, Gunnar; Batke, Jan-Mark; Sikora, Thomas
Affiliation: Communication Systems Group, Technical University of Berlin, Germany
AES Convention: 116 (May 2004) Paper Number: 6136
Publication Date: May 1, 2004 Import into BibTeX
Session Subject: Audio Recording and Reproduction; Archiving and Content Management
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