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Authors:
Shuichi Kurabayashi
Tatsuki Imai
Keywords: Music, Visualization, Navigation, 3D, Database
Abstract:
In this paper, we propose an interactive music search-and-navigation system, called Chord-Cube, which visualizes musical similarities on the basis of temporal chord progression. Our proposed system offers an interactive navigation mechanism that allows users to find their desired music intuitively, by visualizing music items in a three-dimensional (3D) space. Each axis in this 3D space corresponds to three types of chord progression phases: Introductive-melody, Continued-melody, and Bridge, which are typical structures in pop and rock music. Users can utilize this 3D space to find their desired song by placing their favorite song at the point of origin and obtaining the semantic distance between the input song and other songs. We have conducted two experimental studies, in which we compared our proposed navigation system with the conventional manual trial-and-error manner, to evaluate the extent to which our visual navigation method improves music retrieval. The results of experiments show that our visual navigation method successfully increases the retrieval performance for pop and rock music.
Pages: 52 to 62
Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2014. Used with permission.
Publication date: June 30, 2014
Published in: journal
ISSN: 1942-2652