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Towards Automatic Retrieval of Album Covers

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Advances in Information Retrieval (ECIR 2006)

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We present first steps towards intelligent retrieval of music album covers from the web. The continuous growth of electronic music distribution constantly increases the interest in methods to automatically provide added value like lyrics or album covers. While existing approaches rely on large proprietary databases, we focus on methods that make use of the whole web by using Google’s or A9.com’s image search. We evaluate the current state of the approach and point out directions for further improvements.

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  1. Dept. of Computational Perception, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria

    Markus Schedl, Peter Knees, Tim Pohle & Gerhard Widmer

  2. Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Vienna, Austria

    Gerhard Widmer

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  1. Queen Mary, University of London, London, UK

    Mounia Lalmas

  2. Department of Information Science, City University, Northampton Square, EC1V OHB, London, UK

    Andy MacFarlane

  3. Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, MK7 6AA, Milton Keynes, UK

    Stefan Rüger

  4. Queen Mary University of London, UK

    Anastasios Tombros

  5. CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Theodora Tsikrika

  6. Department of Computing, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, SW7 2AZ, London, UK

    Alexei Yavlinsky

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Schedl, M., Knees, P., Pohle, T., Widmer, G. (2006). Towards Automatic Retrieval of Album Covers. In: Lalmas, M., MacFarlane, A., Rüger, S., Tombros, A., Tsikrika, T., Yavlinsky, A. (eds) Advances in Information Retrieval. ECIR 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3936. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11735106_58

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