| Conference/Proceedings | 116th AES Convention |
| Start date | May 2004 |
| Address | Berlin, Germany |
| Author(s) | Gunnar Eisenberg, Jan-Mark Batke, Thomas Sikora |
| Title | BeatBank - An MPEG-7 compliant Query by Tapping System |
| Abstract | 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 account 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. |
| File | 0788Eisenberg2004.pdf |