Chris Tralie, Duke University, From Musical Rhythms To Vibrating Vocal Folds: Geometric (Quasi)Periodicity Quantification in Multimedia Time Series
SAS 4201A large variety of multimedia data inference problems require analysis of repeated structures. In audio, for instance, the rhythm, or ``pulse'' of the music, occurs in a periodic pattern, and understanding this pattern is an important preprocessing step in music information retrieval. In medical video analysis, there is interest in determining heart pulse rate in…