Abstract

Now a day, use of mobile and Internet of Things are increasing day by day, music
cognition as a meaningful task for music promotion has attracted a lot of attention around
the world. How to automatically generate music score is an important part in music
cognition, which acts as an important carrier so as to disposing huge quantity of music
data in IoT networks or Internet. For the reason that the computers lack of the domain
knowledge and cognitive ability, it is hard for computers to recognize the melody of
music or write score while listening to the music.
So a music cognition system is introduced to cognate music and automatically
writes score based on machine learning methods. Considering large-scale data processing
is needed by machine learning algorithms and a number of music devices are involved in
the cognition system through Internet, fog computing is adopted in the proposed
architecture to efficiently allocate computing resources. Then, the system can collect,
preprocess, and store raw music data on the fringe nodes. Meanwhile, these data will be
transmitted from fog nodes to cloud servers to form music databases. Then, machine
learning algorithms, such as hidden Markov model and Gaussian mixture model, are
performed in cloud servers to recognize music melody. Finally, a case study of music
score generation demonstrates the proposed system. It is shown that the method provides
an effective support to generate music score, and also proposed a promising way for the
research and application of music cognition.

Keywords — Audio signal process, fog computing, Internet of Things (IoT), machine
learning, music cognition.