Automatic characterization and generation of music loops and instrument samples for electronic music production

Repurposing audio material to create new music - also known as sampling - was a foundation of electronic music and is a fundamental component of this practice. Currently, large-scale databases of audio offer vast collections of audio material for users to work with. The navigation on these databases is heavily focused on hierarchical tree directories. Consequently, sound retrieval is tiresome and often identified as an undesired interruption in the creative process. We address two fundamental methods for navigating sounds: characterization and generation. Characterizing loops and one-shots in terms of instruments or instrumentation allows for organizing unstructured collections and a faster retrieval for music-making. The generation of loops and one-shot sounds enables the creation of new sounds not present in an audio collection through interpolation or modification of the existing material. To achieve this, we employ deep-learning-based data-driven methodologies for classification and generation.Repurposing audio material to create new music - also known as sampling - was a foundation of electronic music and is a fundamental component of this practice. Currently, large-scale databases of audio offer vast collections of audio material for users to work with. The navigation on these databases is heavily focused on hierarchical tree directories. Consequently, sound retrieval is tiresome and often identified as an undesired interruption in the creative process. We address two fundamental methods for navigating sounds: characterization and generation. Characterizing loops and one-shots in terms of instruments or instrumentation allows for organizing unstructured collections and a faster retrieval for music-making. The generation of loops and one-shot sounds enables the creation of new sounds not present in an audio collection through interpolation or modification of the existing material. To achieve this, we employ deep-learning-based data-driven methodologies for classification and generation

Summary of Research 1994

The views expressed in this report are those of the authors and do not reflect the official policy or position of the Department of Defense or the U.S. Government.This report contains 359 summaries of research projects which were carried out under funding of the Naval Postgraduate School Research Program. A list of recent publications is also included which consists of conference presentations and publications, books, contributions to books, published journal papers, and technical reports. The research was conducted in the areas of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mathematics, Mechanical Engineering, Meteorology, National Security Affairs, Oceanography, Operations Research, Physics, and Systems Management. This also includes research by the Command, Control and Communications (C3) Academic Group, Electronic Warfare Academic Group, Space Systems Academic Group, and the Undersea Warfare Academic Group

Geographic information extraction from texts

A large volume of unstructured texts, containing valuable geographic information, is available online. This information – provided implicitly or explicitly – is useful not only for scientific studies (e.g., spatial humanities) but also for many practical applications (e.g., geographic information retrieval). Although large progress has been achieved in geographic information extraction from texts, there are still unsolved challenges and issues, ranging from methods, systems, and data, to applications and privacy. Therefore, this workshop will provide a timely opportunity to discuss the recent advances, new ideas, and concepts but also identify research gaps in geographic information extraction

Un système data mining en ligne pour la maintenance ontologique d'une mémoire corporative DM

L'intégration de la connaissance dans la mémoire corporative (Ribière et Matta, 1998), (Dieng et al., 1998) fait face à l'hétérogénéité des données (Visser, Jones et al., 1997). L'utilisation de l'ontologie est une approche possible pour surmonter ce problème. Cependant, l'ontologie est une structure de donnée comme n'importe quelle structure informatique, elle est donc dynamique et évolue dans le temps à cause des conditions dynamiques résultant des changements du domaine conceptuel, les changements de conceptualisation, les changements de spécification, les changements descendants, etc. (Yildiz, 2006). Ces dernières années, plusieurs approches ont été proposées pour résoudre le problème de la maintenance des ontologies. Cependant, la précision et le rappel ne permettent pas de satisfaire les besoins des utilisateurs. De plus, ces approches ne prennent pas en compte toute l'information disponible pour prendre une décision réaliste. Pour résoudre le problème de l'évolution de la connaissance dans les ontologies, nous proposons une approche hybride qui utilise l'apprentissage machine et un processus d'alignement qui contrôle les relations syntaxiques entre les entrées dans l'ontologie. De plus, des règles structurelles et des heuristiques sont appliquées pour améliorer le degré de similitude entre les entités ontologiques. Ce processus hybride crée des règles de correspondance qui définissent comment transformer les entrées dans l'ontologie en définissant tous les types d'associations possibles entre les entités ontologiques. L'approche d'enrichissement de l'ontologie exploite les techniques de la fouille de données, les techniques du traitement automatique du langage naturel et la recherche d'information pour améliorer la performance d'apprentissage durant la tâche d'enrichissement du domaine conceptuel. L'évaluation des ontologies demeure un problème important et le choix d'une approche appropriée dépend des critères utilisés. Dans notre approche, nous adoptons la vérification de la cohérence décrite dans (Maziar Amirhosseini et al., 2011) et (Abderrazak et al., 2011).\ud ______________________________________________________________________________ \ud MOTS-CLÉS DE L’AUTEUR : Data Mining, Traitement automatique du langage naturel, Apprentissage machine, Recherche d'information, Intégration, Ontologie, Mémoire corporative, Web sémantique