Project # 2.3 : audio thumbnailing

Within the numediart/HyForge research program, this project
aims at studying techniques and developing software prototypes
for analyzing the structure of music contents and extracting summary
excerpts. Several acoustic features are proposed to describe
music signals, namely timbral, harmonic and rhythmic features.
Based on these features, a method is proposed to derive the similarity
structure of the music signals and extract the most similar
audio sections. The resulting structure is encoded in a XML format
to be used within a graphical user interface developed in the
Processing language, which provides the user with an enhanced
listening experience of music contents.