| Author: | Adam Clark, Brent Deverman, Rhonda El-Sheikh, Ryan Hunt, Joel Sieh |
| Advisor: | Dr. Anil Jain, Dr. Charles Owen |
| Email: | deverman@msu.edu; http://ntweb.cse.msu.edu/cse498s00projt3/ |
The Musical Organizational Tool set in an Interactive Virtual Environment (MOTIVE) is a three-dimensional space created for browsing musical content. MOTIVE is an investigation into the feasibility of creating a method to categorize, sort, and present musical selections in an exciting and interactive way. This method is preferred over current methods of similar information retrieval because feedback is both instant and entertaining. MOTIVE represents each musical selection with a graphical object in a three-dimensional space. Each representation will be created as a mapping of its song's spectral representation onto a colored image strip. Selections will be grouped together based on similarity, which is determined by considering both meta-data and spectral energy. The user can actively take part in this musical environment by navigating among selections with the aid of the mouse. Volume and stereo phonics of each selection relative to the user are determined by the three-dimensional position between the user and the selection. This allows the user to navigate an environment of seemingly life-like musical objects and actively compare songs playing in the dynamic environment.
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