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@MISC{Blackburn97searchby,
    author = {Steven Blackburn and Hugh Davis},
    title = {Search By Humming},
    year = {1997}
}

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The goal of the project was to design and produce a system for indexing and searching a collection of MIDI files, allowing them to be searched by humming part of a composition in the collection. The system needs to be resilient to the humming being out of tune, out of time or out of key. The query may be any part (bass line, lead, brass section) and may start anywhere in the piece. The project concentrated on indexing and searching of the database using pitch contours. An algorithm for approximate matching was developed which, with a suitable database design, allows very fast searching which scales reasonably with database size. A database of nearly 8000 MIDI files was built and analysed to determine that contours are enough to identify MIDI files. 2 Steven G. Blackburn 8 May, 1997 BSc in Computer Science Project Report Contents Abstract ............................................................. 1 Contents ............................................................. 2 ListofFigu...

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