Query by Humming

Abstract

Music retrieval; Time series database querying Definition With the appearance of large scale audio and video databases in various application areas, novel information retrieval methods adapted to the specific characteristics of these data types are required. A natural way of searching in a musical audio database is by humming the tune of a song as a query, which is so-called "query by humming". In this entry, state-of-theart techniques for effective and efficient querying by humming are described.