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ambiguity · goto2001-realtime-beat-tracking

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ambiguity
Assertion
Main issues in audio beat tracking are detecting cues, interpreting them to infer the beat structure, and handling ambiguity, since no single sound necessarily indicates the beat; Goto's system examines multiple beat hypotheses in parallel with multiple agents. It assumes 4/4 time and a roughly constant tempo.
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The main issues in recognizing the beat structure in realworld musical acoustic signals are (1) detecting beat-tracking cues in audio signals, (2) interpreting the cues to infer the beat structure, and (3) dealing with the ambiguity of interpretation. [...] Because there is not necessarily a single specific sound that directly indicates the beat position, there are various ambiguous situations. [...] It assumes that the time-signature of an input song is 4/4 and that the tempo is roughly constant
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