Definition:Context-aware musical audio is the association of any information related to the piece of music.
The phrase context-aware multimedia, in the case of audio documents in the music domain, can be defined as the association of any information related to the piece of music extending the information required for or supporting playback. Furthermore, it could be understood as the usage of this information in application scenarios by Music Information Retrieval (MIR) systems, in order to create context-aware multimedia applications.
Such information can either be found implicitly in the content of a piece of music (often referred to as content-based or low-level features) or is associated with the audio instances as external metadata (high-level features). Content-based information is extracted via feature extraction algorithms. Those algorithms are often complex and computational intensive, and one must consider the different formats in which a piece of music can be digitally...
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(2006). Context-Aware Musical Audio. In: Furht, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Multimedia. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-30038-4_41
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