For the past three years now, we've taken a number of Vamp audio analysis plugins published by the Centre for Digital Music and submitted them to the annual MIREX evaluation. The motivation is to give other methods a baseline to compare against, to compare one year's evaluation metrics and datasets against the next year's, and… Continue reading MIREX 2015 submissions

Last year, Luís Figueira and I experimentally submitted a batch of audio analysis methods, implemented in Vamp plugins developed over the past few years at the C4DM, to the Music Information Retrieval Evaluation Exchange (MIREX). I found the process interesting and wrote an article about the results. I wasn't sure whether to do a repeat… Continue reading MIREX 2014 submissions

During the past 7 years or so, we in the Centre for Digital Music have published quite a few audio analysis methods in the form of Vamp plugins: bits of software that you can download and use yourself with Sonic Visualiser, run on a set of audio recordings with Sonic Annotator, or use with your… Continue reading QM Vamp Plugins in MIREX