This week I begun using Chroma Toolbox in MATLAB. I’m hoping to get some practice using it and soon have a demo showing a similarity matrix between a sung sample and a reference song. Looking at a few of these and comparing them to similarity matrices of unrelated samples should let us know if the CNN algorithm will be viable.
Since most of our algorithms will probably be implemented in MATLAB, it might not be feasible to publish our project as a mobile app, but a desktop version might still be doable. Luckily, the problem has less to do with the computing power required and more of ease of development: there’s no reason that our algorithm COULDN’T be ported to a mobile device, and whatever we do produce could be redeveloped if it seems commercially viable.