Tenth IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia A Music Retrieval Method based on Distribution of Feature Segments Þ Þ Kazuhisa OnoÝ , Yu Suzuki , Kyoji Kawagoe Ý Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University Kusatsu, Shiga, 525-8577, Japan,
[email protected] Þ College of Information Science and Technology, Ritsumeikan University Kusatsu, Shiga, 525-8577, Japan, yusuzuki, kawagoe @is.ritsumei.ac.jp Abstract the query music piece and the retrieval target music piece. When two music pieces have several similar features, these In this paper, we propose a music retrieval method based music pieces are treated as similar types of music, and the on the distributions of features in the music. In common importance of the other features of the music is ignored. music retrieval methods, if several features are similar be- However, the problem with this approach is that, when the tween the query and the retrieval target, the retrieval sys- other features of the music are quite different, these music tems return that the query is similar to the retrieval target. pieces should be treated as different types of music. Sim- However, a problem is that several features in the music are ilarly, when the other features are not very different, these ignored. If the other features in the query and the retrieval pieces should be treated as similar types of music. target are quite different, the query and the retrieval tar- To solve this problem, the music retrieval system should get should be treated as different types of music. Therefore, avoid ignoring the other features.