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Music Tempo Estimation: Are We Done Yet?

Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval
Volume 3 (2020): Issue 1
By: Hendrik Schreiber,  Julián Urbano and  Meinard Müller  
Open Access
|Aug 2020

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/tismir.43 | Journal eISSN: 2514-3298
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Language: English
Submitted on: Oct 16, 2019
Accepted on: Jul 7, 2020
Published on: Aug 24, 2020
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year
Keywords:
Evaluation,
Tempo Estimation,
Metric,
Dataset

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