index.md

layout	description	navigation_weight
default	companion website for the book "An Introduction to Audio Content Analysis"	1

under construction

The 2nd edition is coming! Please note that this website is still under construction and certainly not as beautiful as it could/should be. Please let me know if you run into any problems.

An Introduction to Audio Content Analysis introduces standard base-line approaches to a variety of audio analysis and music information retrieval tasks and provides the reader with a multitude of pointers and references if interested. The book itself is accompanied by a range of free resources for learning, teaching, and developing audio analysis systems.

The second edition of the book is restructured, modernized, and expanded.

Targeting engineers, graduate students, and programmers with basic knowledge of signal processing, the book describes various analysis algorithms with their theoretical, technical, musical and perceptual background. "An Introduction to Audio Content Analysis) covers topics including low level feature extraction, fundamental frequency detection, key and chord recognition, onset and tempo detection, as well as tasks such as alignment and genre classification.

resources

In support not only of the text book itself but also of the wider (research) community, all accompanying resources are free, public, and open source.

source code

• Python implementations of core algorithms from the book
• C++ implementations of core algorithms from the book
• Matlab implementations of core algorithms from the book
• [Matlab sources to generate all plots in the book}(https://github.com/alexanderlerch/ACA-Plots)

teaching & learning resources

• [PDF slides}(https://github.com/alexanderlerch/ACA-Slides) modularized to match to the textbook structure
• [LaTeX sources for slides}(https://github.com/alexanderlerch/ACA-Slides)
• lecture videos (for the 1st edition)

other resources

• list of datasets for music and audio tasks
• list of relevant conference deadlines

about the author

[Alexander Lerch](http://www.alexanderlerch.com) is Associate Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he works on the [design and implementation of algorithms for audio content analysis and music information retrieval](https://musicinformatics.gatech.edu). Lerch is author of more than 60 peer-reviewed publications on a wide range of topics in audio and music analysis and processing. Before he joined the faculty at Georgia Tech, he co-founded the company [zplane.development](https://www.zplane.de), a research-driven company which is a leading provider of advanced music software technology. He joined the faculty of the Georgia Tech, where he leads the Music Informatics Group.

Support or Contact

Having trouble with this web page? Please submit an issue and we’ll help you sort it out.