Machine Learning Of Melodies Through Hierarchical Self-Organizing Maps

In this thesis, discussions are made about several questions in music informatics through the design and development of a system to generate melodies and the system utilizes the Hierarchical Self-Organizing Map (HSOM), an unsupervised neural network model that is commonly used in tasks of data visua...

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spelling my-mmu-ep.34912012-04-12T03:30:37Z Machine Learning Of Melodies Through Hierarchical Self-Organizing Maps 2010-01 Hean, Edwin Law Hui Q Science (General) In this thesis, discussions are made about several questions in music informatics through the design and development of a system to generate melodies and the system utilizes the Hierarchical Self-Organizing Map (HSOM), an unsupervised neural network model that is commonly used in tasks of data visualization and clustering, as a memory store of melodies. More specifically, the thesis tackles the problem of Melody Generation which is still a wide open research area in music informatics. Various methods that make use of techniques like machine learning, encoded rules, evolutionary computation, statistical analysis and so on have been proposed over the years and this thesis borrows ideas from various research to formulate a system inspired by the Memory Prediction Framework and built using the HSOM. 2010-01 Thesis http://shdl.mmu.edu.my/3491/ http://vlib.mmu.edu.my/diglib/login/dlusr/login.php masters University of Multimedia Research Library
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topic Q Science (General)
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Hean, Edwin Law Hui
Machine Learning Of Melodies Through Hierarchical Self-Organizing Maps
description In this thesis, discussions are made about several questions in music informatics through the design and development of a system to generate melodies and the system utilizes the Hierarchical Self-Organizing Map (HSOM), an unsupervised neural network model that is commonly used in tasks of data visualization and clustering, as a memory store of melodies. More specifically, the thesis tackles the problem of Melody Generation which is still a wide open research area in music informatics. Various methods that make use of techniques like machine learning, encoded rules, evolutionary computation, statistical analysis and so on have been proposed over the years and this thesis borrows ideas from various research to formulate a system inspired by the Memory Prediction Framework and built using the HSOM.
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author Hean, Edwin Law Hui
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title Machine Learning Of Melodies Through Hierarchical Self-Organizing Maps
title_short Machine Learning Of Melodies Through Hierarchical Self-Organizing Maps
title_full Machine Learning Of Melodies Through Hierarchical Self-Organizing Maps
title_fullStr Machine Learning Of Melodies Through Hierarchical Self-Organizing Maps
title_full_unstemmed Machine Learning Of Melodies Through Hierarchical Self-Organizing Maps
title_sort machine learning of melodies through hierarchical self-organizing maps
granting_institution University of Multimedia
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publishDate 2010
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