Dear friends, although I have not posted any message, I have been reading this list for some time.I am graduate student finishing my PhD degree in Computer Science in Princeton University under the guidance of Prof. Perry Cook.
For the last few years I have been conducting research in Computer Audition (examples: automatic music segmentation, musical genre classification, feature extraction, music/speech classification, similarity retrieval etc) essentially developing and combining techniques from Signal Processing and Machine Learning to analyze audio and especially music. Mainly for my own research I have developed a software framework in C++ called MARSYAS that contains all my proposed algorithms as well as many of the existing computer audition algorithms. A small-scale graphical user interface written in JAVA can also be used as a prototype computer audition enhanced audio editor. Using MARSYAS audio files can be automatically classified and new classification schemes can easily be created and evaluated. MARSYAS has also been used by undergraduate and graduate students in Princeton doing computer audition projects. I believe it should be straightforward to use MARSYAS for example to write plugins that perform musical genre classification or similarity retrieval for the audio systems described in this list. Therefore I thought it might be of interest to people in this list to take a look at my software and possibly use it. MARSYAS is available as free software under the GPL from http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~gtzan/marsyas.html and should compile easily under Linux. Alhtough I have very little time since this is my last year I would be happy to help and collaborate with anyone who might find MARSYAS useful. Also please do not hesitate to send any feedback (good or bad) to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please bear in mind that this software was created for my own research and although I have made an effort to make it clean and well-documented a lot of work remains to be done in this area. Thank you for your time, George Tzanetakis
