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1   Introduction

This report describes the activities that have been carried out at Ircam on the subject of Score Following in the period from May to December 2002.

1.1   Organisation of the Report

This document is organised as follows: Section 2 summarises the project activities that took place during the year (state of affairs, tests, internships), while the following section 3 to 7 focus on specific research and development topics around score following: software architecture (section 3), audio (section 4), statistics and training (section 5), Midi (section 6), and Tools (section 7). Section 8 gives an outlook on future development and research possibilities, including a calendar with the next dates, as known of today, relevant to score following in section 8.7. Finally, section 9 presents a conclusion. Appendix A lists the release notes of the suivi package releases, appendix B the available sound recordings, and appendix C the minutes of some of the more important meetings held on the subject.

1.2   Collaborators and Acknowledgments

Diemo Schwarz (project coordination, research and development)
Nicola Orio (research and development, now at the University of Padua)
Gilles Mathieu and Vincent Goudard (stagiaires)
Our valuable contributors without whom the project couldn't have advanced that far were Serge LeMouton, Andrew Gerzso, Philippe Manoury, Norbert Schnell, Riccardo Borghesi and François Déchelle. We'd also like to thank Alain Jacquinot, Anne Guyonnet and Fréderic Prin for their support in organising the test sessions.


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