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This paper describes a real-time beat tracking system that recognizes a hierarchical beat structure comprising the quarter-note, half-note, and measure levels in real-world audio signals sampled from popular-music compact discs. Most previous beat-tracking systems dealt with MIDI signals and had difficulty in processing, in real time, audio signals containing sounds of various instruments and in tracking beats above the quarter-note level. The system described here can process music with drums and music without drums and can recognize the hierarchical beat structure by using three kinds of musical knowledge: of onset times, of chord changes, and of drum patterns. This paper also describes several applications of beat tracking, such as beat-driven real-time computer graphics and lighting control.
Masataka Goto (Fri,) studied this question.
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