@inproceedings{9423d136982440b6b63ad3c56880f216,
title = "Measuring musical rhythm similarity: Statistical features versus transformation methods",
abstract = "Two approaches to measuring the similarity between symbolically notated musical rhythms are compared with human judgments of perceived similarity. The first is the edit-distance, a popular transformation method, applied to the rhythm sequences. The second works on the histograms of the inter-onset- intervals (IOIs) of these rhythm sequences. Furthermore, two methods of dealing with the histograms are also compared: the Mallows distance, and the employment of a group of standard statistical features. The results provide further evidence from the aural domain, that transformation methods are superior to feature-based methods for predicting human judgments of similarity. Furthermore, the results also support the hypothesis that statistical features applied to the histograms of the rhythms are better than music-theoretical structural features applied to the rhythms themselves.",
keywords = "Edit distance, Inter-onset interval histograms, Mallows distance, Mantel test, Music information retrieval, Musical rhythm, Pattern recognition, Similarity measures, Statistical features, Transformations",
author = "Beltran, {J. F.} and X. Liu and N. Mohanchandra and Toussaint, {G. T.}",
year = "2013",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9789898565419",
series = "ICPRAM 2013 - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods",
pages = "595--598",
booktitle = "ICPRAM 2013 - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods",
note = "2nd International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods, ICPRAM 2013 ; Conference date: 15-02-2013 Through 18-02-2013",
}