musicinformationretrieval.com is a collection of instructional materials for music information retrieval. These materials contain a mix of text, technical and quantitative discussion, and Python code.
These pages, including the one you're reading, are authored using Jupyter notebooks, formerly known as IPython notebooks. They are statically hosted using GitHub Pages. The GitHub repository is found here: stevetjoa/stanford-mir.
This material is used during the annual Summer Workshop on Music Information Retrieval at CCRMA, Stanford University (description and registration).
The MIR workshop teaches the underlying ideas, approaches, technologies, and practical design of intelligent audio systems using MIR algorithms. It lasts five full days, Monday through Friday. It was founded by Jay LeBoeuf (Real Industry, CCRMA consulting professor) in 2008.
The workshop is intended for students, researchers, and industry audio engineers who are unfamiliar with the field of music information retrieval (MIR). We demonstrate the exciting technologies enabled by basic signal processing techniques with machine learning and pattern recognition. Lectures will cover topics such as low-level feature extraction, generation of higher-level features such as chord estimations, audio similarity clustering, search, and retrieval techniques, and design and evaluation of machine classification systems. Our goal is to make the understanding and application of highly-interdisciplinary technologies and complex algorithms approachable.
Knowledge of basic digital audio principles is recommended. Experience with a scripting language such as Python or Matlab is desired. Students are encouraged to bring their own audio source material for course labs and demonstrations.
The workshop consists of half-day lectures, half-day supervised lab sessions, demonstrations, and discussions. Labs allow students to design basic "intelligent audio systems", leveraging existing MIR toolboxes, programming environments, and applications. Labs include creation and evaluation of basic instrument recognition, transcription, and real-time audio analysis systems.
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