Beta's music-related projects for final year students 2001-2002

Summary

These projects are open to both CSIS and CE students and a maximum of three groups of students from both curriculum will be supervised.

Project title	maxNGroup	nStudent/group	Preferred skills
Melody extractor	1	1-3	WMN, Cipher
Music typesetter interface system	2	2-4	WMN, LaTeX
Automatic music transcription system	2	3-5	WMN, Cipher, Multi, SP
Musical beat induction system	1	2-3	WMN, Cipher, Multi, SP
Score follower	1	2-4	MMN, Cipher, SP

When there is a total more than three groups, preference is given to those projects listed early in the above table.

All software systems should be open source and ideally be portable across platforms, e.g., runnable under both Win32 and Mac OS X.

The scope of the projects are not limited to those listed above; come to talk with me if you have any ideas.

"WMN": At least one, and preferrably two or more, of the members can read musical score in Western music notation, or is willing to learn about it:
"Cipher": At least one, and preferrably two or more, of the members can read musical score in cipher notation:
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"LaTeX": know about LaTeX or is willing to learn about it
"SP": At least one of the members should have some knowledge about signal processing.
"Multi": students taking multimedia course preferred