Maria@3: Scripts to assess invariance of rhythmic and melodic descriptors as described in [1]. This code extracts rhythmic and melodic audio features for a dataset of synthesised rhythms and melodies. It assesses the invariance of the features to transformations of the timbre, recording quality, tempo and pitch via a classification and retrieval experiment. 
Maria@3: You can download the dataset of synthesised rhythms and melodies from [2]. 
Maria@3: If you use this software or dataset for research please cite [1]. 
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Maria@3: For any questions please contact m.x.panteli{at}gmail.com.
Maria@3: This code is licensed under the terms of the MIT License. 
Maria@3: Copyright (c) 2016 Maria Panteli.
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Maria@3: 1) extract_features.py: Extracts the scale transform rhythmic descriptor and pitch bihistogram melodic descriptor for audio recordings located in audio/rhythms and audio/melodies. Requires the dataset to be downloaded in directory ‘audio’.
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Maria@3: 2) evaluate.py: Assesses the performance of each descriptor with respect to the different transformations and transformation values by a classification and retrieval experiment. The classification experiment runs a 5-fold cross-validation on the dataset with 30 rhythm/melody classes and 100 instances each. The retrieval experiment queries one instance from each rhythm/melody class and assesses the recall rate in the top 99 positions. 
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Maria@3: 3) results.py: Prints results from the classification and retrieval experiments to Latex tables and assesses the effect of music style and monophonic versus polyphonic character via box plots and paired t-tests. 
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Maria@3: [1] M. Panteli and S. Dixon. On the Evaluation of Rhythmic and Melodic Descriptors for Music Similarity. In Proceedings of the 17th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, pages 468-474, 2016.
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Maria@3: [2] Rhythms - https://archive.org/details/panteli_maria_rhythm_dataset  
Maria@3:      Melodies - https://archive.org/details/panteli_maria_melody_dataset