Human-Based Percussion and Self-Similarity Detection in Electroacoustic Music from human dance like robot Watch Video
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Description: The essence of my computational-acoustics dissertation can be boiled down to trying to teach a computer to hear percussion in music like a human.Having a human, Alain Rouvez, teach a robot, Shiny Robot, how to dance seemed like the perfect metaphor.nnThe dissertation research began with a two-choice, forced-interval experiment in which 29 humans were asked to rate isolated sounds from most to least percussive.The sound characteristic of rise time was found to be the most correlated with perc