7 research outputs found
On the Complex Network Structure of Musical Pieces: Analysis of Some Use Cases from Different Music Genres
This paper focuses on the modeling of musical melodies as networks. Notes of
a melody can be treated as nodes of a network. Connections are created whenever
notes are played in sequence. We analyze some main tracks coming from different
music genres, with melodies played using different musical instruments. We find
out that the considered networks are, in general, scale free networks and
exhibit the small world property. We measure the main metrics and assess
whether these networks can be considered as formed by sub-communities. Outcomes
confirm that peculiar features of the tracks can be extracted from this
analysis methodology. This approach can have an impact in several multimedia
applications such as music didactics, multimedia entertainment, and digital
music generation.Comment: accepted to Multimedia Tools and Applications, Springe
Movie Script Similarity Using Multilayer Network Portrait Divergence
International audienceThis paper addresses the question of movie similarity through multilayer graph similarity measures. Recent work has shown how to construct multilayer networks using movie scripts, and how they capture different aspects of the stories. Based on this modeling, we propose to rely on the multilayer structure and compute different similarities, so we may compare movies, not from their visual content, summary, or actors, but actually from their own storyboard. We propose to do so using "portrait divergence", which has been recently introduced to compute graph distances from summarizing graph characteristics. We illustrate our approach on the series of six Star Wars movies