Content Processing of Music Audio Signals, chapter Sound to Sense, Sense to Sound: A State of the Art

About this chapter In this chapter, we provide an overview of state-of-the-art algorithms for the automaticdescriptionofmusic audio signals, both froma low-level perspective (focusing on signal characteristics) and a more musical perspective (focusing on musically meaningful dimensions). We also provide examples of applica-tions based on this description, such as music identification, music browsing and music signal transformations. Throughout the chapter, a special focus is put on promising research directions. 84 Chapter 3. Content Processing of Music Audio Signals Music Information Retrieval (MIR) is a young and very active research area. This is clearly shown in the constantly growing number and subjects of arti-cles published in the Proceedings of the annual International Conference o