Decoding Speech Prosody: Do Music Lessons Help?

Three experiments revealed that music lessons promote sensitivity to emotions conveyed by speech prosody. After hearing semantically neutral utterances spoken with emotional (i.e., happy, sad, fearful, or angry) prosody, or tone sequences that mimicked the utterances' prosody, participants identified the emotion conveyed. In Experiment 1 (n=20), musically trained adults performed better than untrained adults. In Experiment 2 (n=56), musically trained adults outperformed untrained adults at identifying sadness, fear, or neutral emotion. In Experiment 3 (n=43), 6-year-olds were tested after being randomly assigned to 1 year of keyboard, vocal, drama, or no lessons. The keyboard group performed equivalently to the drama group and better than the no-lessons group at identifying anger or fear. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

The Role of Melodic and Temporal Cues in Perceiving Musical Meter.

A number of different cues allow listeners to perceive musical meter. Three experiments examined effects of melodic and temporal accents on perceived meter in excerpts from folk songs scored in 6/8 or 3/4 meter. Participants matched excerpts with 1 of 2 metrical drum accompaniments. Melodic accents included contour change, melodic leaps, registral extreme, melodic repetition, and harmonic rhythm. Two experiments with isochronous melodies showed that contour change and melodic repetition predicted judgments. For longer melodies in the 2nd experiment, variables predicted judgments best at the beginning of excerpts. The final experiment, with rhythmically varied melodies, showed that temporal accents, tempo, and contour change were the strongest predictors of meter. The authors' findings suggest that listeners combine multiple melodic and temporal features to perceive musical meter. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

基于遗传算法的旋律匹配模型研究

基于内容音乐检索(MIR)以其简捷、直观的检索方式成为模式识别、信号处理等领域研究的热点之一.在MIR问题中,特征的选择、表示和匹配是核心技术.在研究分析音乐物理及感知特征的基础上,以旋律作为主要特征,通过基音提取和动态阈值分割音符算法,为待检索音乐数据集和输入音乐样本建立了旋律表示模型;应用遗传算法对齐模板,修正哼唱输入个体差异,以提高检索精确度;融合欧式距离和动态时间扭曲(dynamic time warping,DTW)相似度实现度量匹配模板,以加强容错和泛化能力.实验表明,算法的速度及精度可良好地满足哼唱系统的要求,并可扩展应用于相似的系统.     

Heat exchangers for he II cooling loops with self-sustained fountain effect pumps

A cooling cycle with He II convection driven by self-sustained fountain effect pumps is being investigated. Special attention is drawn to the problem of heat transfer at both ends of the superfilter of this loop. The heat exchanger requirements are derived from theoretical considerations on the degradation of the cooling characteristic effected by non-perfect heat exchangers. A shell and tube type heat exchanger, optimized for the warm end of the filter has been operated in this loop with a thermal load of up to 9 W, with 2.8 g s⁻¹ maximum helium flow rate and with inlet temperatures between 1.8 and 3.4 K. Its performance is well described by computations. A different heat exchanger design with finned Cu walls is suggested for the cold end of the pump. Some considerations on its optimization are given.     

矿用隔爆兼本质安全型饮水机的设计

矿用隔爆兼本质安全型饮水机可以解决煤矿井下工作人员的饮水问题,提高井下工作人员的饮水条件和饮用水质量。介绍了矿用隔爆兼本质安全型饮水机的组成、各组成部分的设计与工作原理。     

音乐推荐系统及相关技术研究

随着计算机网络和多媒体技术的迅速普及,推荐系统特别是音乐推荐系统成为了电子商务领域的一大研究热点.对现有的音乐推荐系统及其相关技术作了全面深入的调查和分析,在介绍个人及群体音乐推荐系统的基础上,讨论了音乐推荐系统的发展方向并提出了相应的研究重点.该课题的研究有助于提高音乐推荐质量,增强用户满意度,提高音乐推荐系统的实际可用性.相关研究成果也将对其他推荐系统以及多媒体应用系统的研究起到重要的借鉴作用.     

基于纹理映射和粒子系统的三维喷泉实时模拟

将纹理映射和粒子系统理论相结合,给出一种基于粒子系统的喷泉系统模型,同时分析模型中粒子的属性及其变化,加入风力和阻力等粒子属性,绘制三维喷泉系统,实现粒子在复杂受力情况下的实时动态模拟.实验结果表明,该方法不仅有效地保证了图像的真实感,而且提高了系统的灵活性和实时性.     

一种基于喷泉码的编码协作方式

在无线网络用户之间的编码协作是一种提供发射分集的方式。传统的喷泉码协作方式工作在全双工,非正交MAC信道中。提出了一种新型的基于喷泉码的协作机制,可以工作在半双工模式,正交MAC信道中。理论和仿真都证明了所提出的RCC机制提高了系统性能。     

可靠多播方案的最佳有效负载长度研究

以保证可靠分发所需总传输时间为评判标准,在考虑分组头开销的条件下,研究了基于简单反馈重传、RS码(Reed-Solomon code)和LT喷泉码技术的3种多播方案中的有效负载长度选取问题,提出了通过理论分析确定最佳有效负载长度的方法,并以仿真实验进行验证。理论分析和仿真实验表明,对于不同的分组头大小和链路误比特率,各方案的有效负载长度均具有最佳取值;链路误比特率越高,最佳有效负载长度所带来的性能增益越明显。其中,基于LT喷泉码的可靠多播方案性能最优。     

谱曲软件的开发与应用

随着科学技术的飞速发展,以及人民物质精神文化生活质量的逐渐提高,人们对于音乐的追求也越来越高。大型的演唱会和各类综合文艺晚会不仅要求演员艺术水平高超,对音乐效果和音乐表现力也有了较高需求。由此,MID（I乐器数字接口）应运而生。通过MIDI技术可以将不同乐器的优势集中到一起,形成其他乐器无法创作比拟的特殊音乐效果,但是,MIDI技术无法实现对音乐作品乐谱的分析。因此,迫切需要一种能够实现乐谱分析的软件程序对MIDI乐谱文件进行解析,实时翻译成乐谱来满足演奏者的需求。本文基于以上背景,提出了一种解析MIDI文件的谱曲软件分析工具开发方案,可以实现对MIDI乐谱文件的分析,将其翻译成对应的乐谱,使乐谱能够直观展示在演奏者面前。