Engineers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology IDMT in Ilmenau, Germany, has taken a new approach to cataloguing music – by mood. The software aims to match how the user is feeling at the time, from relaxed and melancholic to euphoric and vigorous.
The classifications are automatic and cancel the need of tedious manual cataloguing.
The software trains the PC to recognise different musical characteristics and classifies the media in real time and makes the gathered information available in the database.
It can also show suitable images at a tempo that matches the music. The mood of images is analysed on several distinguishing factors such as brightness, contrast, edges, colours, textures, layout and shape.
Music is also sorted according to the mood parameters, such as volume, tone, melody, rhythm, instrumentation and vocals.
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Date Published: March 18, 2009
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