this morning i spent an hour training gamera. As final projects are quickly approaching, I have been spending a bit more time preparing for these, to avoid last minute rushes (as much as possible). For 614, I am attempting to make a content-aware effects unit, which should be pretty difficult for me, as I have never written a project in c++ before. I do, however, have a working framework in matlab, and have mapped out the outline already. It just remains to be seen if i can implement the code within the 2 1/2 week timeframe.

This last week I have been doing a lot of background mathematics brushups in eigenvector/value calculations - different methods used, along with an informal efficiency ranking of each. This is in preparation for my final project for 612, which will be towards using the high resolution techniques for an onset detection scheme for musical audio. Although not a new idea by any means, its new to me, and is a completely different method than say, fft based phase, energy or complex domain approaches which i have used in the past.

I have been training Gamera with prepared early sheet music over the past week as well.

today I spent all morning and part of the afternoon on the wiki entry that explains the new findings based on the newly implemented changes (see last entry)...

For the last two weeks I have been quite busy with coursework, but here and there I have had brief moments to finish odds and ends. After posting the results of the staff removal analysis, I received feedback from Christoph Dalitz who has recommended that I try the rotate() plugin to get better results from linetracking.He has also noted that we should be using 'all', not 'bars' for the crossing_symbols parameter.

Therefore, my entire day has been spent editing the code from mstaves and the scripts that i am using for the test. I have since rerun the experiment, and have posted the images on the website.

The link to the files is:
http://coltrane.music.mcgill.ca/GEMM/images/main.php

I will revise my results today and re-post the results on the gamera board by tomorrow morning.