• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.43 no.2
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• pp.200-206
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• 2024

Computing music similarity is an indispensable component in developing music search service. This paper proposes a relevance weight of each chromagram vector for cover song identification in computing a music similarity function in order to boost identification accuracy. We derive a music similarity function using the relevance weight based on the probabilistic relevance model, where higher relevance weights are assigned to less frequently-occurring discriminant chromagram vectors while lower weights to more frequently-occurring ones. Experimental results performed on two cover music datasets show that the proposed music similarity improves the cover song identification performance.

• Journal of Korea Entertainment Industry Association
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.91-107
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• 2020

The purpose of this study is to explore quantitatively the success factors of YouTube's music cover channel. Along the process, constructing and testing the measurement for music cover channel's characteristics. The research constructed the measurement items based on results of qualitative studies. To perform the purposes the study suggest a research model which integrated the Post Acceptance Model with five music cover channel's characteristics based on the recent case studies. The five characteristics were contents, video, creator, interactivity, and publicity. The characteristics were integrated with Post Acceptance Model. After testing reliability and validity the research model was revised then, the research hypothesis was tested. The research results show: first, it was found that the content characteristics did not meet the expected value of users. Second, among the five factors of channel characteristics presented in creator's characteristics have the largest effect on user's value perception Third, in the factor analysis process, the content factor and the video were loaded on the same factor thus integrated as one factor. Fourth, satisfaction and intention for continual usage were also loaded on the same factor thus integrated as one factor. The research results suggest that music cover channel operators need to enhance the creator's attraction, communication with user, and publicity in various ways.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.41 no.6
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• pp.662-667
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• 2022

Computing music similarity is an indispensable component in developing music search service. This paper focuses on learning a music similarity function in order to boost cover song identification performance. By using the probabilistic linear discriminant analysis, we construct a latent music space where the distances between cover song pairs reduces while the distances between the non-cover song pairs increases. We derive a music similarity function by testing hypothesis, whether two songs share the same latent variable or not, using the probabilistic models with the assumption that observed music features are generated from the learned latent music space. Experimental results performed on two cover music datasets show that the proposed music similarity improves the cover song identification performance.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.36 no.6
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• pp.436-441
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• 2017

Computing music similarity is indispensable in constructing music retrieval system. This paper focuses on the cover song search among various music-retrieval tasks. We investigate the cover song search method based on the chroma n-gram to reduce storage for feature DB and enhance search accuracy. Specifically we propose t-tab n-gram, n-gram selection method, and n-gram set comparison method. Experiments on the widely used music dataset confirmed that the proposed method improves cover song search accuracy as well as reduces feature storage.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.37 no.6
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• pp.518-524
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• 2018

The cover song refers to live recordings or reproduced albums. This paper studies two-dimensional Fourier transform as a feature-dimension reduction method to search cover song fast. The two-dimensional Fourier transform is conducive in feature-dimension reduction for cover song search due to musical-key invariance. This paper extends the previous work, which only utilize the magnitude of the Fourier transform, by introducing an invariant from phase based on the assumption that adjacent frames have the same musical-key change. We compare the cover song retrieval accuracy of the Fourier-transform based methods over two datasets. The experimental results show that the addition of the invariant from phase improves the cover song retrieval accuracy over the previous magnitude-only method.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.38 no.3
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• pp.314-319
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• 2019

Computing chromagram similarity is indispensable in constructing cover song identification system. This paper proposes a code-based chromagram similarity to reduce the computational and the storage costs for cover song identification. By learning a song-specific codebook, a chromagram sequence is converted into a code sequence, which results in the reduction of the feature storage cost. We build a lookup table over the learned codebooks to compute chromagram similarity efficiently. Experiments on two music datasets were performed to compare the proposed code-based similarity with the conventional one in terms of cover song search accuracy, feature storage, and computational cost.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2020.11a
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• pp.1084-1086
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• 2020

동영상 공유 플랫폼의 발전으로 다양한 영상들이 업로드 되고 있는데, 영상에 사용된 음악의 저작권 행사를 위해서는 음악 검색 알고리즘의 역할이 매우 중요하다. 그러나, 커버곡과 같이 원곡을 변형하여 사용한 경우에는 단순한 음악 검색 알고리즘으로는 이러한 상황을 탐지하기가 쉽지 않다. 음악의 높낮이나 빠르기 등이 바뀌어도 검색 성능이 유지되어야 하지만, 현재까지 연구된 알고리즘들은 이러한 변화에 취약하기 때문이다. 이에 본 연구에서는 멜로디 라인의 변곡점을 활용한 커버곡 검색 알고리즘을 제안한다. 본 알고리즘은 멜로디 라인을 중심으로 하여 높낮이 변화에도 높은 성능을 유지하고, 변곡점을 이용하기 때문에 빠르기 변화에 강하고 사용되는 메모리 양은 적다는 장점이 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2011.07a
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• pp.258-260
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• 2011

이 논문에서는 쿼리-바이-싱잉/허밍 (Query-by-singing/humming, QbSH) 시스템 또는 커버 노래 인식 (cover song identification) 시스템에서 사용 가능한 멜로디 유사도를 제안한다. QbSH 또는 커버 노래 인식은 디지털 음악의 사용이 보편화되면서 음악 검색의 방법으로 많은 연구가 진행되어 오고 있다. 멜로디 유사도는 이런 시스템을 구현하는데 필수적인 요소이며, 두 개의 음악에서 멜로디가 추출되었다고 가정하고, 추출된 멜로디 사이의 유사한 정도를 수치로 표현한다. QbSh 시스템이나 커버 노래 인식 시스템은 멜로디 유사도에 기반하여 입력 노래와 유사한 노래를 데이터베이스에서 검색하는 작업을 수행한다. 이 논문에서 제안하는 멜로디 유사도 방식은 기존의 많이 연구되던 동적 시간 왜곡 (dynamic time warping, DTW) 방법과 크로마 표현 방법 (chroma representation)을 사용하였다. DTW방법은 비대칭적으로 사용하고 미디 노트 영역에서 표현된 멜로디 특징은 0이상 12 미만의 크로마 레벨로 표현하였다. 기존의 방법에서는 정수값을 많이 사용하였으나 이 논문에서는 실수값을 사용한다. DTW 에 사용하는 거리 함수를 기존에 사용하던 차이의 절대값 대신 꺾인 함수 형태를 사용함으로써 성능을 높였다. QbSH 시스템에서의 실험을 통해서 성능을 검증하였다. 본 논문에서는 10-12초 길이의 1000번의 쿼리(Query)에 대해서 28시간 정도의 데이터베이스에서 실험한 결과, 순위 역의 평균 (Mean reciprocal rank, MRR) 값이 0.713을 보였다.

• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.10 no.5
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• pp.195-200
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• 2021

Due to the development of video sharing platforms, the amount of video uploads is exploding. Such videos often include various types of music, among which cover songs are included. In order to protect the copyright of music, an algorithm to find the original song of the cover song is essential. However, it is not easy to find the original song because the cover song is a modification of the composition, speed and overall structure of the original song. So far, there is no known effective algorithm for searching the original song of the cover song. In this paper, we propose an algorithm for searching the original song of the cover song using the inflection points of the melody line. Inflection points represent the characteristic points of change in the melody sequence. The proposed algorithm compares the original song and the cover song using the sequence of inflection points for the representative phrase of the original song. Since the characteristics of the representative phrase are used, even if the cover song is a song made by modifying the overall composition of the song, the algorithm's search performance is excellent. Also, since the proposed algorithm uses only the features of the inflection point sequence, the memory usage is very low. The efficiency of the algorithm was verified through performance evaluation.

• Journal of Service Research and Studies
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.48-62
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• 2023

As seen in the recent K-pop craze, the size and influence of the Korean music industry is growing even bigger. At least 6,000 songs are released a year in the Korean music market, but not many can be said to have been successful. Many studies and attempts are being made to identify the factors that make the hit music. Commercial factors such as media exposure and promotion as well as the quality of music play an important role in the commercial success of music. Recently, there have been many marketing campaigns using Internet memes in the pop music industry, and Internet memes are activities or trends that spread in various forms, such as images and videos, as cultural units that spread among people. Depending on the Internet environment and the characteristics of digital communication, contents are expanded and reproduced in the form of various memes, which causes a greater response to consumers. Previously, the phenomenon of Internet memes has occurred naturally, but artists who are aware of the marketing effects have recently used it as an element of marketing. In this paper, the mediated effect of Internet memes in relation to the success factors of popular music was analyzed, and a prediction model reflecting them was proposed. As a result of the analysis, the factors with the mediated effect of 'cover effect' and 'challenge effect' were the same. Among the internal success factors, there were mediated effects in "Singer Recognition," the genres of "POP, Dance, Ballad, Trot and Electronica," and among the external success factors, mediated effects in "Planning Company Capacity," "The Number of Music Broadcasting Programs," and "The Number of News Articles." Predictive models reflecting cover effects and challenge effects showed F1-score at 0.6889 and 0.7692, respectively. This study is meaningful in that it has collected and analyzed actual chart data and presented commercial directions that can be used in practice, and found that there are many success factors of popular music and the mediating effects of Internet memes.