User-centric Music Information Retrieval

Authors

Bo Shao, Florida International UniversityFollow

Document Type

Dissertation

Major/Program

Computer Science

First Advisor's Name

Tao Li

First Advisor's Committee Title

Committee Chair

Second Advisor's Name

Shu-Ching Chen

Third Advisor's Name

Vagelis Hristidis

Fourth Advisor's Name

Mohammed Hadi

Keywords

Music Information Retrieval, Data Mining, Machine Learning, Music Recommendation, Artist Similarity, Dynamic Weighting, Music Data Organization, Music Annotation, Music Analysis, Hierarchical Co-clustering

Date of Defense

3-7-2011

Abstract

The rapid growth of the Internet and the advancements of the Web technologies have made it possible for users to have access to large amounts of on-line music data, including music acoustic signals, lyrics, style/mood labels, and user-assigned tags. The progress has made music listening more fun, but has raised an issue of how to organize this data, and more generally, how computer programs can assist users in their music experience.

An important subject in computer-aided music listening is music retrieval, i.e., the issue of efficiently helping users in locating the music they are looking for. Traditionally, songs were organized in a hierarchical structure such as genre->artist->album->track, to facilitate the users’ navigation. However, the intentions of the users are often hard to be captured in such a simply organized structure. The users may want to listen to music of a particular mood, style or topic; and/or any songs similar to some given music samples. This motivated us to work on user-centric music retrieval system to improve users’ satisfaction with the system.

The traditional music information retrieval research was mainly concerned with classification, clustering, identification, and similarity search of acoustic data of music by way of feature extraction algorithms and machine learning techniques. More recently the music information retrieval research has focused on utilizing other types of data, such as lyrics, user access patterns, and user-defined tags, and on targeting non-genre categories for classification, such as mood labels and styles. This dissertation focused on investigating and developing effective data mining techniques for (1) organizing and annotating music data with styles, moods and user-assigned tags; (2) performing effective analysis of music data with features from diverse information sources; and (3) recommending music songs to the users utilizing both content features and user access patterns.

Identifier

FI11041508

Recommended Citation

Shao, Bo, "User-centric Music Information Retrieval" (2011). FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 416.
https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/416