MusicGuide: Album Reviews on the Go

Serdar Sali sali@soe.ucsc.edu

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MusicGuide is an application that can be used to provide the user information on a music album on the go by simply using a photo of the album cover as the input utilizing David Lowe’s SIFT [6]. Relevant data on the album such as reviews and track samples are then collected from various sources on the web and presented to the user.

The architecture works with a matching accuracy above 90%. The matching process is robust

against various transforms and artifacts in input images.

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