Chandna, Pritish (Date of defense: 2021-09-23)
This thesis dissertation focuses on singing voice extraction from polyphonic musical signals. In particular, we focus on two cases; contemporary popular music, which typically has a processed singing ...
Blaauw, Merlijn (Date of defense: 2022-07-22)
Singing synthesis has seen a notable surge in popularity in the last decade and a half. Music producers use this technology as an instrument, there is an audience for music with synthetic vocals, and ...
Herrera Boyer, Perfecto (Date of defense: 2018-12-12)
This tesis reports on research carried out and published during the last twenty years on different problems of Music Information Retrieval (MIR). We organize the text as a personal account and critical ...
Cuesta, Helena (Date of defense: 2022-03-21)
Ensemble singing is a well-established practice across cultures, found in a great diversity of forms, languages, and levels. However, it has not been widely studied in the field of Music Information ...
Meléndez Catalán, Blai (Date of defense: 2021-04-13)
Under the current copyright management business model, broadcasters are taxed by the corresponding copyright management organization according to the percentage of music they broadcast, and the collected ...
Porcaro, Lorenzo (Date of defense: 2022-12-16)
This thesis focuses on assessing the impact that music recommendation diversity may have on listeners. In the music domain, diversity is one of the values that recommender systems should preserve, ...
Yesiler, M. Furkan (Date of defense: 2022-01-12)
This dissertation aims at developing audio-based musical version identification (VI) systems for industry-scale corpora. To employ such systems in industrial use cases, they must demonstrate high ...
Sarasúa Berodia, Álvaro (Date of defense: 2017-05-29)
Interface metaphors are often used in Human Computer Interaction (HCI) to exploit knowledge that users already have from other domains. A commonly used one in Digital Musical Instruments (DMIs) is the ...
Bosch Vicente, Juan José (Date of defense: 2017-06-27)
The identification of the melody from a music recording is a relatively easy task for humans, but very challenging for computational systems. This task is known as "audio melody extraction", more formally ...
Martorell Domínguez, Agustín (Date of defense: 2013-09-19)
This work explores the multidimensional, ambiguous and temporal characteristics of tonality. The approach relies on interfacing pitch-spaces with time vs. time-scale descriptions. In this combined ...