Mil: Music Exploration And Visualization Via Lyric And Image

In this paper, we introduce MIL: a music exploration prototype which integrates music (M), image (I), and lyrics (L), for efficiently visualizing and browsing music collections. MIL utilizes a novel structure, music semantic graph (MSG), to organize music collections in a hierarchical way by leveraging lyrics and acoustic cues of music. Each node of MSG corresponds to a music concept and is associated with a cluster of music tracks. MIL offers users a novel way to efficiently explore and scan music collections by using lyrics and image information. In addition, the proposed prototype supplies an easy-to-use interface to visualize MSG hierarchically. The user study shows that our prototype can effectively and efficiently help users to browse, search, and scan music collections.