MuziK

This IWT funded project runs in close collaboration with Aristo Music, a company that is specialized in creating music channels that meet the desires of the customer. In order to accomplish its objective, the company must have access to a very large music database and to annotations that were made for each song in that database. In the past, these annotations were created manually by musical experts, but this method is too time consuming and expensive to scale up to the ever growing database sizes. Therefore, the MuziK project investigates new signal processing and internet harvesting techniques that can create such annotations in an automatic way over night. Even if these annotations will probably never meet the high standards of the classical manual annotations, they do provide enough information for making coarse-grain classifications of the songs, and furthermore, suspected errors can always be corrected later by human experts with a minimal effort.     

Partners: 

Aristo Music