2006:Score Following

Overview

This page is devoted to discussions of the evaluation of Score Following algorithms at MIREX 2006. Discussions have already begun on the https://mail.lis.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/mrx-com01 MIREX 06 "ScoreFollowing06" contest planning list] and will be briefly digested here. A full digest of the discussions is available to subscribers from the https://mail.lis.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/mrx-com01 MIREX 06 "ScoreFollowing06" contest planning archive].

As consensus is achieved on the planning list, a full proposal (Score Following Proposal) will be produced for the format of the evaluation, including pseudocode for the evaluation metric and suggested formats for submitted algorithms. A skeleton of proposal is already available on the Score Following Proposal page.

Moderators

• Arshia Cont (University of California in San Diego (UCSD) and Ircam - Realtime Applications Team, France) - cont@ircam.fr

Introduction

Score Following is the real-time alignment of incoming music signal to the music score. The music signal can be symbolic (Midi Score Following) or Audio.

This page serves as a summary of the discussions held on the ScoreFollower06 mailing list and will eventually hold a final evaluation proposal for MIREX 2006.

Important threads on the discussion list

Contributors:

• Christopher Raphael
• Arshia Cont
• Diemo Schwarz
• George Litterst
• Kris West
• Arie Van Schuetterhoef
• Michael Good
• Stephen Downie