机器学习和数据挖掘最近几年有很大突破且实用推进很快。在众多数据中，声音和图像就占据绝大部分，以声音和图像为内容源的机器学习和数据挖掘会越来越多，所以声音分析，例如音乐分析等; 图像识别等会越来越重要。
国外很多相关的开源项目是我们好好学习第一手资料，我们在基本算法原理清楚的情况下，可以好好学习这些opensource
Machine Learning
M2K - M2K represents the music-specific set of D2K modules designed to create a Virtual Research Lab (VRL) for MIR/MDL development, prototyping and evaluation. M2K provides the framework for the MIREX (Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange) contest, an annual MIR evaluation. D2K, together with a subsidiary set of modules called T2K (Text-to-Knowledge), provide the basic foundation upon which M2K is being developed. D2K/T2K are the result of a ongoing research and development project of the Automated Learning Group (ALG) at NCSA. M2K License: BSD-Like
Weka - Weka is a collection of machine learning algorithms for data mining tasks written in the Java programming language. Weka contains tools for data pre-processing, classification, regression, clustering, association rules, and visualization. It is also well-suited for developing new machine learning schemes. The book: Data Mining compliments the Weka Software. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) .
Marsyas - Marsyas is a software framework for rapid prototyping and experimentation with computer audition applications with specific emphasis on Music Information Retrieval. Marsyas provides a general, extensible and flexible architecture that allows easy experimentation with algorithms and provides fast performance that is useful in developing real time audio analysis tools. A variety of existing building blocks that form the basis of most published algorithms in Computer Audition are already available as part of the package. Marsyas is written in C++ and Java and is actively being developed by George Tzanetakis. License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Torch - Torch is a machine learning library written in C++ that works on most Unix/Linux platforms. It can be used to train MLPs, RBFs, HMMs, Gaussian Mixtures, Kmeans, Mixtures of experts, Parzen Windows, KNN, and can be easily extended so that you can add your own machine learning algorithms. Torch is currently developed at IDIAP and is described in the paper Torch : a modular machine learning software library Torch 3 has been successfully tested on Linux, SunOS, FreeBSD, OSF1, Mac OS X and even MS Windows. License: Torch 3 is free, distributed under a BSD license.
NODElib - Neural Optimization Development Engine library is a programming library for rapidly developing powerful neural network simulations. The code is extremely modular, compact, and robust. It is written in an object oriented manner. All of the library code, example and test program source,w documentation, and supporting text is only on the order of about 20,000 lines, which means that NODElib is extremely compact. NODELib is written in C. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) .
SVM - this package defines support vector machines (SVMs) for both classification and regression problems. The SVMs can use a wide variety of kernel functions. Optimization of the SVMs is performed by a variation of John Platt‘s sequential minimal optimization (SMO) algorithm. This version of SMO is generalized for regression, uses kernel caching, and incorporates several heuristics; for these reasons, we refer to the optimization algorithm as SMORCH. SMORCH has been shown to be over an order magnitude faster than SMO, QP, and decomposition. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) .
LAPACK/BLAS (Linux version available from Intel) for matrix math - The BLAS (Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms) are high quality "building block" routines for performing basic vector and matrix operations. Level 1 BLAS do vector-vector operations, Level 2 BLAS do matrix-vector operations, and Level 3 BLAS do matrix-matrix operations. Because the BLAS are efficient, portable, and widely available, they‘re commonly used in the development of high quality linear algebra software, LINPACK and LAPACK for example. License: Commercial License
EMD - an implementation of the Earth Movers Distance. The EMD computes the distance between two distributions, which are represented by signatures. The signatures are sets of weighted features that capture the distributions. The features can be of any type and in any number of dimensions, and are defined by the user. License: unknown.
BNT - Bayes Net Toolbox for Matlab - supports many types of conditional probability distributions, decision and utility nodes, as well as chance nodes, static and dynamic BNs, many different inference algorithms, several methods for parameter learning, regularization and structure learning. License: GNU Library GPL
Auditory Toolkbox - a collection of tools that implement several popular auditory models for MATLAB. This toolbox will also be useful to speech and auditory engineers who want to see how the human auditory system represents sounds. License: unknown
Netlab toolbox - consists of a toolbox of Matlab functions and scripts based on the approach and techniques described in Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition by Christopher M. Bishop, (Oxford University Press, 1995), but also including more recent developments in the field. There is an an accompanying text book, Netlab: Algorithms for Pattern Recognition. License: BSD-Style
SOM Toolbox for Matlab - an implementation of the SOM and its visulaization in the Matlab 5 computing environment. The Toolbox can be used to preprocess data, initilize and train SOMs using a range of different kinds of topologies, visulalize SOMs in various ways and analyze the properties of the SOMs and the data. With data mining in mind, the Toolbox and the SOM in general are best suited for the data understanding phase. License: GNU General Public License
MA Toolbox for Matlab - Implementing Similarity Measures for Audio - The MA Toolbox is a collection of functions for Matlab 6 or higher. It contains functions to analyze music (audio) and compute similarities. License: GNU General Public License
Music Processing
ChucK : Concurrent, On-the-fly Audio Programming Language. ChucK is an audio programming language for real-time synthesis, composition, and performance, which runs on commodity operating systems. ChucK presents a new time-based concurrent programming model, which supports multiple, simultaneous, dynamic control rates, and the ability to add, remove, and modify code, on-the-fly, while the program is running, without stopping or restarting. It offers composers, researchers, and performers a powerful and flexible programming tool for building and experimenting with complex audio synthesis programs, and real-time interactive control. License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
CSound - Csound is a programming language designed and optimized for sound rendering and signal processing. It provides facilities for composition and performance over a wide range of platforms License: GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
SuperCollider - SuperCollider is an environment and programming language for real time audio synthesis for MacOS. You can write programs to generate or process sound in real time or non real time. SuperCollider can be controlled by MIDI, the mouse, Wacom graphics tablet, and over a network via Open Sound Control. SuperCollider is mostly like Smalltalk but has a different syntax. License: Free, but not open-source due to a MacZoop dependency.
The MIDI Toolbox - a compilation of functions for analyzing and visualizing MIDI files in the Matlab computing environment. Besides simple manipulation and filtering functions, the toolbox contains cognitively inspired analytic techniques that are suitable for context-dependent musical analysis that deal with such topics as melodic contour, similarity, key-finding, meter-finding and segmentation. License: GNU General Public License
BeatRoot - An Interactive Beat Tracking and Visualisation System. BeatRoot is able to estimate the tempo and the times of musical beats in expressively performed music. License: GNU Public License
The Humdrum Toolkit - set of general-purpose software tools intended to assist music researchers in posing and answering research questions. Humdrum allows researchers to encode, manipulate, and output a wide variety of musically-pertinent representations. The emphasis is on posing and answering questions about music. License: Although the Humdrum Toolkit is free of charge, each copy must be registered in order to establish legal ownership of the copy.
Marsyas - Marsyas is a software framework for rapid prototyping and experimentation with computer audition applications with specific emphasis on Music Information Retrieval. Marsyas provides a general, extensible and flexible architecture that allows easy experimentation with algorithms and provides fast performance that is useful in developing real time audio analysis tools. A variety of existing building blocks that form the basis of most published algorithms in Computer Audition are already available as part of the package. Marsyas is written in C++ and Java and is actively being developed by George Tzanetakis. License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
JTranscriber - an interactive automatic transcription system which recognizes musical notes and converts them into MIDI format, displaying the audio data as a spectrogram with the MIDI data overlaid in piano roll notation, and allowing interactive monitoring and correction of the extracted MIDI data. License: Unavailable
MusicXML - a universal translator for common Western musical notation from the 17th century onwards. It is designed as an interchange format for notation, analysis, retrieval, and performance applications. License: Royalty Free
Optical Music Recognition Systems - Donald Byrd a the school of Music, Indiana University has an excellent table describing the available set of OMR systems. License: Various, see individual programs.
Finale - a music notation program. License: commercial
Sound Libraries
libsndile - Libsndfile is a C library for reading and writing files containing sampled sound (such as MS Windows WAV and the Apple/SGI AIFF format) through one standard library interface. It is released in source code format under the Gnu Lesser General Public License.
portaudio - PortAudio is a free, cross platform, open-source, audio I/O library. It lets you write simple audio programs in ‘C‘ that will compile and run on many platforms . License: BSD-style open source license.
Improv - a C++ environment for writing programs that enable musician/computer interaction using MIDI instruments. Improv programs can be written in special pre-defined environments, or they can be written from scratch using just the basic MIDI input and output classes. License: Non-open-source - can be used for non-commercial purposes including music composition, music performance or academic research and education. All other uses of Improv must be licensed.
RtAudio - a set of C++ classes which provide a common API for realtime audio input/output across Linux (native ALSA, JACK, and OSS), Macintosh OS X, SGI, and Windows (DirectSound and ASIO) operating systems. RtAudio significantly simplifies the process of interacting with computer audio hardware. License: BSD-style open source license.
stk - The Synthesis ToolKit in C++ is a set of open source audio signal processing and algorithmic synthesis classes written in the C++ programming language. STK was designed to facilitate rapid development of music synthesis and audio processing software, with an emphasis on cross-platform functionality, realtime control, ease of use, and educational example code. The Synthesis ToolKit is extremely portable (it‘s mostly platform-independent C and C++ code), and it‘s completely user-extensible (all source included, no unusual libraries, and no hidden drivers). License: non-standard, open-source license: This software was designed and created to be made publicly available for free, primarily for academic purposes, so if you use it, pass it on with this documentation, and for free. If you make a million dollars with it, give us some. If you make compositions with it, put us in the program notes.
MAD - a high-quality MPEG audio decoder. It currently supports MPEG-1 and the MPEG-2 extension to lower sampling frequencies, as well as the de facto MPEG 2.5 format. All three audio layers — Layer I, Layer II, and Layer III (i.e. MP3) — are fully implemented. License: GNU General Public License, Version 2,
lame - LAME is an LGPL MP3 encoder. The Open source development model allowed to improve its quality and speed since 1999. It is now an highly evolved MP3 encoder, with quality and speed able to rival state of the art commercial encoders. License: GNU General Public License (GPL), GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
JavaSound - provides low-level support for audio operations such as audio playback and capture (recording), mixing, MIDI sequencing, and MIDI synthesis in an extensible, flexible framework. License: Sun License
PortMusic- PortMusic is a set of APIs and library implementations for music. PortMusic consists of three libraries: PortAudio for real-time audio input/output, PortMidi for real-time MIDI input/output and PortSoundFile for sound file input and output.. License: BSD-like open source.
JID3 - JID3 is a Java library for processing MP3 metadata (aka tags). A Supports reading and writing ID3 V1.0 V1.1 and V2.3.0 MP3 Tags. License: GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
Audio / Signal Processing
aubio - aubio is a library (written in C) for audio labelling. The aim is to add these automatic labelling features to other audio softwares. Functions can be used offline in sound editors and software samplers, or online in audio effects and virtual instruments. Features include onset detection, silence detection and pitch detection. License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Matlab - a high-level technical computing language and interactive environment for algorithm development, data visualization, data analysis, and numerical computation. License: commercial
Marsyas - Marsyas is a software framework for rapid prototyping and experimentation with computer audition applications with specific emphasis on Music Information Retrieval. Marsyas provides a general, extensible and flexible architecture that allows easy experimentation with algorithms and provides fast performance that is useful in developing real time audio analysis tools. A variety of existing building blocks that form the basis of most published algorithms in Computer Audition are already available as part of the package. Marsyas is written in C++ and Java and is actively being developed by George Tzanetakis. License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
CLAM - a full-fledged software framework for research and application development in the Audio and Music Domain. It offers a conceptual model as well as tools for the analysis, synthesis and transformation of audio signals. License: GNU General Public License (GPL).
Sphinx 3 - Sphinx-3 is an open source speech recognition system. Sphinx 3.x is a recent implementation for speech-to-text recognition, its main goal being speed improvements over the original Sphinx-3 decoder. The front-end of Sphinx-3 is used by MIR researchers to generate MFCC features. License: BSD License
Cakewalk Sonar- recording studio in a box. Multitrack recording, editing, mixing, and delivery. License: Commercial.
HTK - The Hidden Markov Model Toolkit (HTK) is a portable toolkit for building and manipulating hidden Markov models. HTK is primarily used for speech recognition research although it has been used for numerous other applications including research into speech synthesis, character recognition and DNA sequencing. License: Free download but not redistributable
sox - SoX is a command line utility that can convert various formats of computer audio files in to other formats. It can also apply various effects to these sound files during the conversion. License: GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
Audacity - Audacity is a free audio editor. You can record sounds, play sounds, import and export WAV, AIFF, Ogg Vorbis, and MP3 files, and more. Use it to edit your sounds using Cut, Copy and Paste (with unlimited Undo), mix tracks together, or apply effects to your recordings. It also has a built-in amplitude envelope editor, a customizable spectrogram mode and a frequency analysis window for audio analysis applications. It also supports VST and LADSPA plug-in effects. License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Nyquist - Nyquist is an open-source language for sound analysis and synthesis. It is implemented in C and C++ and runs on Win32, OS X, and Linux. Nyquist offers a powerful and efficient functional programming model for signal processing, and is particularly good at working with large amounts of data because it automatically streams data rather than allocating large arrays in primary memory. In addition to audio processing, Nyquist offers a full Lisp interpreter and MIDI input/output making it suitable for general purpose programming. License: BSD-like open source.
PureData - PureData is a real-time graphical programming environment for audio, video, and graphical processing. License: BSD-like open source.
SNDAN -SNDAN is an open source collection of programs for spectral analysis, display, modification, and resynthesis of musical sounds. It runs under Unix or Linux. It includes phase-vocoder analysis which may be tuned to any fundamental frequency (pitch) and frequency-tracking analysis which performs analysis of sounds with highly variable pitch. It also includes a pitch detector for plotting musical pitch vs. time. Documentation is included. Also, two different versions of SNDAN for Windows/DOS are available by other parties. License: free for download after registration by email.
Armadillo - Armadillo is a spectral analysis/visualization program for the Macintosh computer. It runs native under OS 8.x/9.x or under Classic in OS 10.x. Analysis by phase vocoder can be performed in real time or out of real time and can be untuned or tuned to a specific fundamental frequency (pitch). Visual panels are 1D (amplitude vs. frequency), "waterfall" (amplitude vs. frequency overlay), 2D spectrogram (frequency vs. time), 3D (amplitude vs. frequency vs. time), and waveform (amplitude vs. time) and can be run simultaneously. Tutorials are provided. License: free for download.
Music 4C - This is an open source program for designing synthesis algorithms in the C language and performing an orchestra of instruments using a numerical score. It runs under Unix or Linux. Scores can be generated from music-notation-like score files. Orchestras are provided that play several simple instruments as well as sample files and spectral analysis files. A tutorial manual is included. License: free for download after registration by email.
Pratt - Praat is a program for speech analysis and synthesis - License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
GoldWave - a digital audio editor. It includes all of the common audio editing commands and effects, plus built-in tools such as a batch processor/converter, a CD reader, and audio restoration filters. License: commercial
Visualization
Matlab - a high-level technical computing language and interactive environment for algorithm development, data visualization, data analysis, and numerical computation. License: commercial
Octave - a high-level language, primarily intended for numerical computations. It provides a convenient command line interface for solving linear and nonlinear problems numerically, and for performing other numerical experiments using a language that is mostly compatible with Matlab. It may also be used as a batch-oriented language. License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
The MIDI Toolbox - a compilation of functions for analyzing and visualizing MIDI files in the Matlab computing environment. Besides simple manipulation and filtering functions, the toolbox contains cognitively inspired analytic techniques that are suitable for context-dependent musical analysis that deal with such topics as melodic contour, similarity, key-finding, meter-finding and segmentation. License: GNU General Public License
Adobe Audition - (Formerly Cooledit) -an audio editing environment that offers advanced recording, mixing, editing, and effects processing capabilities. License: Commercial
ipe - drawing editor for creating figures in PDF or (encapsulated) Postscript format. It supports making small figures for inclusion into LaTeX-documents as well as making multi-page PDF presentations that can be shown on-line with Acrobat Reader. License: GNU General Public License
Excel - Microsoft‘s spreadsheet. License: Commercial
freeGLUT / openGL - freeglut is a completely OpenSourced alternative to the OpenGL Utility Toolkit (GLUT) library. GLUT (and hence freeglut) allows the user to create and manage windows containing OpenGL contexts on a wide range of platforms and also read the mouse, keyboard and joystick functions. License: MIT License
qwt - a graphics extension to the Qt GUI application framework/ It provides a 2D plotting widget and more. License: Qwt License, Version 1.0.
qwtplot3d - a feature-rich Qt/OpenGL-based C++ programming library that provides essentially a set of 3D-widgets for programmers. License: GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
qt - a complete C++ application development framework, which includes a class library and tools for cross-platform development and internationalization. License: Commercial
MFC - a collection of classes (generalized definitions used in object-oriented programming) that can be used in building application programs. The classes in the MFC Library are written in the C++ programming language. License: Commercial
wxWidgets - class library that allows you to compile graphical C++ programs on a range of different platforms. wxWidgets defines a common API across platforms, but uses the native graphical user interface (GUI) on each platform, so your program will take on the native ‘look and feel‘ that users are familiar with. License: Modified Library General Public License
wxDesigner - A commercial dialog editor and RAD tool for the free wxWidgets GUI library. License: Commercial
JfreeChart - JFeeChart is a free Java class library for generating charts, including: pie charts (2D and 3D); bar charts (regular and stacked, with an optional 3D effect); line and area charts; scatter plots and bubble charts; time series, high/low/open/close charts and candle stick charts; combination charts; Pareto charts; Gantt charts; wind plots, meter charts and symbol charts; wafer map charts; License: GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
Algorithm Design / Prototyping
Matlab - a high-level technical computing language and interactive environment for algorithm development, data visualization, data analysis, and numerical computation. License: commercial
Octave - a high-level language, primarily intended for numerical computations. It provides a convenient command line interface for solving linear and nonlinear problems numerically, and for performing other numerical experiments using a language that is mostly compatible with Matlab. It may also be used as a batch-oriented language. License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
M2K - M2K represents the music-specific set of D2K modules designed to create a Virtual Research Lab (VRL) for MIR/MDL development, prototyping and evaluation. M2K provides the framework for the MIREX (Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange) contest, an annual MIR evaluation. D2K, together with a subsidiary set of modules called T2K (Text-to-Knowledge), provide the basic foundation upon which M2K is being developed. D2K/T2K are the result of a ongoing research and development project of the Automated Learning Group (ALG) at NCSA. M2K License: BSD-Like
LabWindows - a C programming and development environment. It includes toolkits for digital signal processing, UI design, data analysis and visualization. License: Commercial
Parallel Processing
LAM/MPI: - a high-quality open-source implementation of the Message Passing Interface specification, including all of MPI-1.2 and much of MPI-2. Intended for production as well as research use, LAM/MPI includes a rich set of features for system administrators, parallel programmers, application users, and parallel computing researchers. License: BSD-Style license
PBS - Portable Batch System - a flexible batch queuing system developed for NASA in the early to mid-1990s. It operates on networked, multi-platform UNIX environments. License: Software License
Linux Cluster - Beowulf.org, Beowulf Clusters are scalable performance clusters based on commodity hardware, on a private system network, with open source software (Linux) infrastructure. The designer can improve performance proportionally with added machines. The commodity hardware can be any of a number of mass-market, stand-alone compute nodes as simple as two networked computers each running Linux and sharing a file system or as complex as 1024 nodes with a high-speed, low-latency network. License: GNU General Public License
General Audio and Music Processing Resources
Harmony Central - an excellent source of audio programming tools and resources
SoftSynth - a wide variety of computer music links
FreshMeat - Freshmeat‘s Sound/Audio software category lists more than 200 varied applications dealing with audio and MIDI.
Developer Tools
MIR researchers use a wide range of programming tools:
Operating Systems: Linux, OS X, Solaris, Windows
Programming Languages: C, C++, C#, Delphi, Java, Perl, TCL/TK, Matlab, excel, awk
Database: MySQL, VisualFoxPro
Documentation: Latex, StarOffice, Word
Repository: SourceForge.net
Editors / IDE / Misc developer tools: emacs, vi, visual studio, eclipse, netbeans, jbuilder, gnuplot, autoconf
Web Tools: apache, java-script, cgi-bin, servlets/JSPs, typo3
转自: http://blog.csdn.net/tangyongkang/article/details/6143031