Lucia Mendel

Music Information Retrieval

Lucia covers the research behind audio matching, from acoustic lexemes and shingles to approximate nearest-neighbour search. She is drawn to the places where MIR meets listening and composition.

From SoundSpotter to audioDB: scaling similarity search
Music Information Retrieval · February 11, 2013 · by Lucia Mendel
SoundSpotter matches against a corpus you hold in memory. audioDB asks the next question: what if the corpus is enormous? The answer involves locality-sensitive hashing.
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Acoustic lexemes and the TimbreScores
Music Information Retrieval · May 22, 2012 · by Lucia Mendel
The same features that let SoundSpotter match audio can be drawn as a picture. The TimbreScores gallery turns timbre into a visible, self-similar score.
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Lucia Mendel

From SoundSpotter to audioDB: scaling similarity search

Acoustic lexemes and the TimbreScores