M. Leman, V. Vermeulen, L. De Voogdt, A. Camurri, B. Mazzarino, G. Volpe
The paper describes a pilot experiment in which quantitative and structural relationships between auditory stimuli, perceived qualities and motoric responses to music are investigated. In a previous...
Re, M, De Voogdt, L, Leman, M, De Baets, B, De Meyer, H, Martens, J
A large-scale study was set up aiming at the clarification of the influence of demographic and musical background on the semantic description of music. Our model for rating high-level music qualities...
Re, M, De Voogdt, L, Leman, M, De Baets, B, De Meyer, H, Martens, J
A large-scale study was set up aiming at the clarification of the influence of demographic and musical background on the semantic description of music. Our model for rating high-level music qualities...
The IPEM_EME: a Wireless Music Controller for Real-time Music Interaction (2008)
Demey, M, Leman, M, Cornelis, O
The IPEM_EME is a sound and music controller based on wireless motion sensors and concepts of embodied music cognition. This paper and demonstration aims at further testing the public acceptability...
Demey, M, Leman, M, Bossuyt, F, Vanfleteren, J
The Musical Synchrotron is a software interface that connects wireless motion sensors to a real-time interactive environment (Pure Data, Max/MSP). In addition to the measurement of movement, the...
The HOP Sensor: Wirelss Motion Sensor (2008)
Demey, M, Leman, M, Kuyken, B, Verstichel, W, Bossuyt, F, Vanfleteren, J
This paper describes the HOP system. It consists of a wireless module built up by multiple nodes and a base station. The nodes detect acceleration of e.g. human movement. At a rate of 100 Hertz the...
Measuring and Quantifying the Impact of Social Interaction on Listeners' Movement to Music (2008)
De Bruyn, L, Leman, M, Moelants, D, Demey, M, De Smet, F
We empirically quantified the impact of a social factor on movements made by groups of adolescents while listening and responding to music. The methodology was based on motion capturing, using...
Systematic musicology at the crossroads of modern music research (2008)
The creative and cultural sector, of which music forms an important part, calls for a research basis that is grounded in a range of scientific disciplines with specialization in music-related...
The Heart as an Ocean exploring meaningful interaction with biofeedback (2008)
Coussement, P, Leman, M, Demey, M, Diniz, N
This paper discusses the need to redefine the concept of ‘interaction’ within the context of interactive (audio) installations. This discussion is based on the realization of ‘The Heart as an...
Quantifying Children’s Embodiment of Musical Rhythm in Individual and Group Settings (2008)
De Bruyn, L, Leman, M, Moelants, D
We empirically quantified the impact of social interaction on movements made by children while listening and responding to music. The methodology was based on wireless motion capturing, using Wii...
Styns, F, Van Noorden, L, Moelants, D, Leman, M
The present study focuses on the intricate relationship between human body movement and music, in particular on how music may influence the way humans walk. In an experiment, participants were asked...
Music retrieval by rhythmic similarity applied on Greek and African traditional music (2007)
Antonopoulos, I, Pikrakis, A, Theodoridis, S, Cornelis, O, Moelants, D, Leman, M
Using fuzzy logic to handle the users' semantic descriptions in a music retrieval system (2007)
This paper provides an investigation of the potential application of fuzzy logic to semantic music recommendation. We show that a set of affective/emotive, structural and kinaesthetic descriptors can...
Model-based sound synthesis of the guqin (2006)
Penttinen, H, Pakarinen, J, Valimaki, V, Laurson, M, Li, H, Leman, M
This paper presents a model-based sound synthesis algorithm for the Chinese plucked string instrument called the guqin. The instrument is fretless, which enables smooth pitch glides from one note to...
Collecting ground truth annotations for drum detection in polyphonic music (2005)
Tanghe, K, Lesaffre, M, Degroeve, S, Leman, M, De Baets, B, Martens, J
In order to train and test algorithms that can automatically detect drum events in polyphonic music, ground truth data is needed. This paper describes a setup used for gathering manual annotations...
A simulated annealing optimization of audio features for drum classification (2005)
Degroeve, S, Tanghe, K, De Baets, B, Leman, M, Martens, J
Current methods for the accurate recognition of instruments within music are based on discriminative data descriptors. These are features of the music fragment that capture the characteristics of the...
Support Vector Machines for Bass and Snare Drum Recognition (2005)
Van Steelant, D, Tanghe, K, Degroeve, S, De Baets, B, Leman, M, Martens, J
In this paper we attempt to extract information concerning percussive instruments from a musical audio signal. High-dimensional vectors of descriptors are computed from the signal and classified by...
Correlation of Gestural Musical Audio Cues (2004)
Leman, M, Vermeulen, V, De Voogdt, L, Moelants, D, Lesaffre, M
An empirical study on the perceived semantic quality of musical content and its relationship with perceived structural audio features is presented. In a first study, subjects have to judge a variety...
Classification of percussive sounds using support vector machines (2004)
D. Van Steelant, K. Tanghe, S. Degroeve, B. De Baets, M. Leman
With the explosive growth of the amount of digital music available on the Internet, Musical Information Retrieval (MIR) has become a topic that has attracted the attention of researchers
A comparison of human and automatic musical genre classification (2004)
J. P Martens, M. Leman, B. Baets, H. Meyer
Recently there has been an increasing amount of work in the area of automatic genre classification of music in audio format. Such systems can be used as a way to evaluate features describing musical...
T. De Mulder, J. P. Martens, M. Lesaffre, M. Leman, B. De Baets, H. De Meyer
In this paper recent improvements of an existing acoustic frontend for the transcription of vocal (hummed, sung) musical queries is presented. Thanks to the addition of a new second pitch extractor...
Correlation of gestural musical audio cues and perceived expressive qualities (2003)
Leman, M, Vermeulen, V, De Voogdt, L, Taelman, J, Moelants, D, Lesaffre, M
An empirical study on the perceived semantic quality of musical content and its relationship with perceived structural audio features is presented. In a first study, subjects had to judge a variety...
Distance-based versus Tree-based Key Recognition in Musical Audio (2003)
H. De Meyer, B. De Baets, M. Leman, M. Lesaffre, ...
A new method for the recognition of the tonal center or key in a musical audio signal is presented. Time-varying key feature vectors of 264 synthesized sounds are extracted from an auditory-based...
An auditory model based transcriber of singing sequences (2002)
L. P. Clarisse, J. P. Martens, M. Lesaffre, B. De Baets, H. Demeyer, M. Leman
In this paper, a new system for the automatic transcription of singing sequences into a sequence of pitch and duration pairs is presented. Although such a system may have a wider range of...
An auditory model based transcriber of singing sequences (2002)
L. P. Clarisse, J. P. Martens, M. Lesaffre, B. De Baets, H. Demeyer, M. Leman
In this paper, a new system for the automatic transcription of singing sequences into a sequence of pitch and duration pairs is presented. Although such a system may have a wider range of...
Discovering structure and repetition in musical audio (2002)
D. Van Steelant, B. De Baets, H. De Meyer, M. Leman, L. Clarisse, ...
In this paper we propose an algorithm that attempts to derive structure and repetition from a raw audio signal. For this purpose we examine the performance of different feature sets, i.e. energy and...
H. De Meyer, H. Demeyer, B. Debaets, M. Leman, ...
We discuss a method to retrieve tonality-oriented information from a musical audio signal and to convert this information into a meaningful character sequence. The construction of a timevarying...