@article {
author = "Pérez-Sancho, C.; Rizo, D.; Iñesta, J.M.; Ponce de León, P.J.; Kersten, S.; Ramirez, R.",
title = "Genre classification of music by tonal harmony",
issn = "1088-467X",
journal = "Intelligent Data Analysis",
volume = "in press",
year = "2010 (In press)"
}

@inproceedings {
author = "Bernabeu, J.F., Calera-Rubio, J., Iñesta, J.M., Rizo, D.",
title = "A probabilistic approach to melodic similarity",
booktitle = "Proceedings of MML 2009",
pages = "48-53",
year = "2009"
}

@inproceedings {
author = "Rizo, D. and Lemström, K. and Iñesta, J.M.",
title = "Ensemble of state-of-the-art methods for polyphonic music comparison",
address = "Corfu, Greece",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Workshop on Exploring Musical Information Spaces, ECDL 2009",
editor = "Rauber, Andreas; Orio, Nicola; Rizo, David",
isbn = "978-84-692-6082-1",
month = "October",
pages = "46--51",
year = "2009",
df = "wemis2009.pdf"
}

@article {
author = "Pérez-Sancho, C.; Rizo, D; Iñesta, J.M.",
title = "Genre classification using chords and stochastic language models",
issn = "0954-0091",
journal = "Connection Science",
month = "May",
number = "2 & 3",
pages = "145-159",
volume = "21",
year = "2009",
rchivarRua = "1"
}

@inproceedings {
author = "Pérez-García, T.; Iñesta, J.M.; Rizo, D.",
title = "metamidi: a tool for automatic metadata extraction from MIDI files",
address = "Corfu, Greece",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Workshop on Exploring Musical Information Spaces, ECDL 2009",
editor = "Rauber, Andrea; Orio, Nicola; Rizo, David",
isbn = "978-84-692-6082-1",
month = "October",
pages = "36--40",
year = "2009",
df = "metamidi.pdf"
}

@phdthesis {
author = "Pérez-Sancho,C.",
title = "Stochastic Language Models for Music Information Retrieval",
address = "Alicante, Spain",
editor = "Iñesta, J.M., Calera, J.",
month = "July",
organization = "Universidad de Alicante",
year = "2009"
}

@article {
author = "Rizo, D. and Lemström, K. and Iñesta, J.M.",
title = "Tree representation in combined polyphonic music comparison",
issn = "978-3-642-02517-4",
journal = "Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval. Genesis of Meaning in Sound and Music. Lecture Notes in Computer Science",
pages = "177--195",
volume = "5493",
year = "2009"
}

@inproceedings {
author = "Iñesta, J.M.; Ponce de León, P.J., Heredia-Agoiz, J.L.",
title = "A ground-truth experiment on melody genre recognition in absence of timbre",
address = "Sapporo, Japan",
booktitle = "Proc. of the 10th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC10)",
isbn = "978-4-9904208-0-2",
pages = "758-761",
year = "2008"
}

@inproceedings {
author = "Illescas, P.R., Rizo, D., Iñesta, J.M.",
title = "Learning to analyse tonal music",
address = "Helsinki, Finland",
booktitle = "Proc. Int. Workshop on Machine Learning and Music, MML 2008",
pages = "25-26",
year = "2008"
}

@inproceedings {
author = "Ponce de León, P.J., Rizo, D., Ramírez, R.",
title = "Melody characterization by a fuzzy rule system",
address = "Helsinki, Finland",
booktitle = "Proc. Int. Workshop on Machine Learning and Music, MML 2008",
pages = "35-36",
year = "2008"
}

@inproceedings {
author = "Ponce de León, P.J.; Rizo, D.; Ramirez, R.; Iñesta, J.M.",
title = "Melody Characterization by a Genetic Fuzzy System",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 5th Sound and Music Computing Conference ",
editor = "Martin Supper and Stefan Weinzierl",
month = "July",
pages = "15-23",
publisher = "Universitätsverlag der TU Berlin",
year = "2008",
df = "smc-08.pdf"
}

@article {
author = "Habrard, A.; Iñesta, J.M.; Rizo, D.; Sebban, M.",
title = "Melody recognition with learned edit distances",
journal = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science",
pages = "86-96",
volume = "5342",
year = "2008",
df = "melody-rec.pdf",
rchivarRua = "1"
}

@inbook {
author = "Ponce de León, P.J.; Iñesta, J.M.; Rizo, D.",
title = "Mining digital music score collections: melody extraction and genre recognition",
address = "Vienna, Austria",
booktitle = "Pattern Recognition",
chapter = "25",
editor = "Peng-Yeng Yin",
isbn = "978-3-902613-24-4",
month = "November",
pages = "559-590",
publisher = "IN-TECH",
year = "2008"
}

@inproceedings {
author = "Lidy T., Rauber A., Pertusa A., Ponce de León P.J., Iñesta J. M.",
title = "MIREX 2008: Audio Music Classification Using A Combination Of Spectral, Timbral, Rhythmic, Temporal And Symbolic Features.",
address = "Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA",
booktitle = "MIREX 2008 - Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange, MIREX Genre Classification Contest, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, September 14-18, 2008",
year = "2008",
url = "http://www.music-ir.org/mirex/2008/"
}

The novel approach of combining audio and symbolic features for music classification from audio enhanced previous audio-only based results in MIREX 2007. We extended the approach by including temporal audio features, enhancing the polyphonic audio to MIDI transcription system and including an extended set of symbolic features. Recent research in music genre classification hints at a glass ceiling being reached using timbral audio features.

@inproceedings {
author = "Ramírez, R., Pérez, A.; Kersten, S., Rizo, D., Illescas, P.R., Iñesta, J.M.",
title = "Modeling celtic violin expressive performance",
address = "Helsinki, Finland",
booktitle = "Proc. Int. Workshop on Machine Learning and Music, MML 2008",
pages = "7-8",
year = "2008"
}

@inproceedings {
author = "Pertusa A., Iñesta J.M.",
title = "Multiple Fundamental Frequency estimation using Gaussian smoothness",
address = "Las Vegas, USA",
booktitle = "Proc. of the IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2008",
isbn = "1-4244-1484-9",
pages = "105-108",
year = "2008",
df = "2974_sent.pdf"
}

@inproceedings {
author = "Pertusa A., Iñesta J. M.",
title = "Multiple Fundamental Frequency Estimation Using Gaussian Smoothness And Short Context.",
address = "Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA",
booktitle = "MIREX 2008 - Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange, MIREX Fundamental Frequency Estimation & Tracking Contest, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, September 14-18, 2008",
year = "2008",
url = "http://www.music-ir.org/mirex/2008/"
}

@article {
author = "Pérez-Sancho, C.; Rizo, D.; Iñesta, J.M.",
title = "Stochastic text models for music categorization",
journal = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science",
pages = "55-64",
volume = "5342",
year = "2008",
df = "music-cat.pdf",
rchivarRua = "1"
}

@inproceedings {
author = "Rizo, D., Lemström, K., Iñesta, J.M.",
title = "Tree structured and combined methods for comparing metered polyphonic music",
address = "Copenhagen, Denmark",
booktitle = "Proc. Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval 2008 (CMMR'08)",
isbn = "978-87-7606-027-5",
month = "May",
pages = "263--278",
year = "2008"
}

@inproceedings {
author = "Espí D., Ponce de León P.J., Pérez-Sancho C., Rizo D., Iñesta J.M., Moreno-Seco F., Pertusa A.",
title = "A cooperative approach to style-oriented music composition",
address = "Hyderabad, India",
booktitle = "Proc. of the Int. Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Music, MUSIC-AI",
pages = "25-36",
year = "2007",
df = "wijcai07.pdf"
}

@article {
author = "Ponce de León P. J. and Iñesta J. M.",
title = "A Pattern Recognition Approach for Music Style Identification Using Shallow Statistical Descriptors",
journal = "IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics C",
number = "2",
pages = "248-257",
volume = "37",
year = "2007"
}

@article {
author = "J.F. Serrano, J.M. Iñesta",
title = "Comparación de representaciones interválicas hansonianas para recuperación de información musical",
journal = "Revista Iberoamericana de Inteligencia Artificial",
number = "34",
pages = "7-15",
volume = "11",
year = "2007"
}

@inproceedings {
author = "Plácido R. Illescas, David Rizo, José M. Iñesta",
title = "Harmonic, melodic, and functional automatic analysis",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2007 International Computer Music Conferrence",
pages = "165--168",
year = "2007",
df = "icmc07_tonal_analysis.pdf"
}

@inproceedings {
author = "Ramírez R., Maestre E., Pertusa A.",
title = "Identifying saxophonists from their playing styles",
address = "Saariselkä, Finland",
booktitle = "Proc. of the 30th Audio Engineering Society (AES) Conference",
year = "2007"
}

@inproceedings {
author = "Lidy T., Rauber A., Pertusa A., Iñesta J.M.",
title = "Improving genre classification by combination of audio and symbolic descriptors using a transcription system",
address = "Vienna, Austria",
booktitle = "Proc. of the 8th Int. Conf. on Music Information Retrieval, ISMIR 2007",
pages = "61-66",
year = "2007",
df = "aptl_ismir07.pdf"
}

@inproceedings {
author = "Lidy T., Rauber A., Pertusa A., Iñesta J. M.",
title = "MIREX 2007: Combining Audio And Symbolic Descriptors For Music Classification From Audio.",
address = "Vienna, Austria",
booktitle = "MIREX 2007 - Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange, MIREX Genre Classification Contest, Vienna, Austria, September 23-27, 2007",
year = "2007",
url = "http://www.music-ir.org/mirex/2007/"
}

Recent research in music genre classification hints at a glass ceiling being reached using timbral audio features. To overcome this, the combination of multiple different feature sets bearing diverse characteristics is needed. We propose a new approach to extend the scope of the features: We transcribe audio data into a symbolic form using a transcription system, extract symbolic descriptors from that representation and combine them with audio features. With this method, we are able to surpass the glass ceiling and to further improve music genre classification.

@inproceedings {
author = "Pertusa, A., Iñesta, J.M.",
title = "Multiple fundamental frequency estimation based on spectral pattern loudness and smoothness",
address = "Vienna, Austria",
booktitle = "MIREX 2007 - Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange, MIREX Fundamental Frequency Estimation & Tracking Contest, Vienna, Austria, September 23-27, 2007",
year = "2007",
url = "http://www.music-ir.org/mirex/2007/"
}

Two multiple fundamental frequency estimation systems are presented in this work. In the first one (PI1, PI2), the best fundamental frequency candidates combination is found in a frame-by-frame analysis by applying a set of rules, taking into account the spectral smoothness measure described in this work. The second system (PI3) was used to extract symbolic features for audio genre classification in a fast way, so the evaluation of this system can reveal the potential of another similar approaches to support these kind of tasks.

@article {
author = "Ramirez R., Maestre E., Pertusa A., Gómez E., Serra X.",
title = "Performance-based Interpreter Identification in Saxophone Audio Recordings",
journal = "IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology ",
number = "3",
pages = "356-364",
volume = "7",
year = "2007"
}

@inproceedings {
author = "Pedro J. Ponce de León, José M. Iñesta, David Rizo",
title = "Towards a human-friendly melody characterization by automatically induced rules",
address = "Vienna",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 8th Int. Conf. on Music Information Retrieval, ISMIR 2007",
editor = "Simon Dixon, David Bainbridge, Rainer Typke",
month = "September",
organization = "Austrian Computer Society",
pages = "437--440",
publisher = "Austrian Computer Society",
year = "2007"
}

@inproceedings {
author = "Rizo D., Ponce de León P. J., Pérez-Sancho C., Pertusa A., Iñesta J. M.",
title = "A Pattern Recognition Approach for Melody Track Selection in MIDI Files",
address = "Victoria, Canada",
booktitle = "Proc. of the 7th Int. Symp. on Music Information Retrieval ISMIR 2006",
editor = "Dannenberg R., Lemström K., Tindale A.",
isbn = "1-55058-349-2",
pages = "61-66",
year = "2006"
}