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Browsing Mathematics (Faculty of) by Supervisor "Brown, Daniel"
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Modelling Chart Trajectories using Song Features
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-23)Over the years, hit song science has been a controversial topic within music information retrieval. Researchers have debated whether an unbiased dataset can be constructed to model song performance in a meaningful way. ... -
People know how diverse their music recommendations should be; why don’t we?
(University of Waterloo, 2021-02-17)While many researchers have proposed various ways of quantifying recommendation list diversity, these approaches have had little input from users on their own perceptions and preferences in seeking diversity. Through a ... -
Style Recognition in Music with Context Free Grammars and Kolmogorov Complexity
(University of Waterloo, 2020-03-11)The Kolmogorov Complexity of an object is incomputable. But built in its structure is a way to specify description methods of an object that is computable in some sense. Such a description method then can be exploited ... -
Technology Design Recommendations Informed by Observations of Videos of Popular Musicians Teaching and Learning Songs by Ear
(University of Waterloo, 2024-07-11)Instrumentalists who play popular music often learn songs by ear, using recordings in lieu of sheet music or tablature. This practice was made possible by technology that allows musicians to control playback events. Until ... -
TwitSong: A current events computer poet and the thorny problem of assessment.
(University of Waterloo, 2018-11-29)This thesis is driven by the question of how computers can generate poetry, and how that poetry can be evaluated. We survey existing work on computer-generated poetry and interdisciplinary work on how to evaluate this type ...