Homework 1

Christodoulos Benetatos
ECE 477 Computer Audition
September 13, 2018

Problem 1. 10 computer audition applications

1. Music Generation

2. Source Seperation

3. Source Localization

4. Music Transcription
It means the procedure of converting audio files to semantic representation (notes in
pentagram, midi, ...) which is very important not only for musicians.

5. Music Information Retrieval

This field is about understanding the content of music. For example the tonal key, the
rythm, the genrge etc.

6. Assisting tool for humans

With computer audition algorithms, we can create applications to assist the learning
procedure of a musical instrument. For example a real time app, that follows reads a
music sheet, and follows a students performance, indicating the points that he deviated
from the score.

7. Entertainment tool for humans

Machines that can improvise, compose and interact musical;y with people are used in
concerts.

Problem 2. All the code for this problem is the problem2.m script. Each sub-question is
clearly seperated with the others, and also many functions were created for organizing better
the code.

a)

b)

c)

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 d)

Problem 3.