query by singing

Since more and more music consumers have larger and larger music collections, and since buying and downloading (legally) of music from the internet will become more and more the standard way of acquiring music, it is important to develop new search methods for making relevant selections (e.g. Playlists) of a large collection. Obviously, one can store title of the song, name of the composer, etc. but based on advanced signal processing techniques one is presently investigating the development of more natural and flexible search methods. One such technique is query by imitation.