Music Plagiarism Detection System

Abstract

This paper proposes a system to detect music plagiarism based on melodic similarity. Melody is obtained using the harmonic structure model, and similarity between two melodies is calculated using the edit distance. The proposed system extracts melody from the input query and finds melodies in the DB that are close to the query melody as potential melodies which the query has plagiarized. The proposed system is implemented with a graphical user interface (GUI).