Category: Team Status Reports

• What are the most significant risks that could jeopardize the success of the project? How are these risks being managed? What contingency plans are ready?

Right now the biggest risk seems to be that the quality of generated music isn’t up to par. We have a few ideas to combat this we are going to discuss with Professor Sullivan.

• Were any changes made to the existing design of the system (requirements, block diagram, system spec, etc)? Why was this change necessary, what costs does the change incur, and how will these costs be mitigated going forward?

We are now planning to have our web application compatible with mobile phones, this doesn’t incur additional cost as we were already planning to use bootstrap for our front end which dynamically sizes content.

• Provide an updated schedule if changes have occurred.

No changes

• What are the most significant risks that could jeopardize the success of the
  project? How are these risks being managed? What contingency plans are ready?
  • The risks remain the same as last week and they are being managed the same
• Were any changes made to the existing design of the system (requirements,
  block diagram, system spec, etc)? Why was this change necessary, what costs
  does the change incur, and how will these costs be mitigated going forward?
  • No changes were made
• Provide an updated schedule if changes have occurred.
  • No changes

• What are the most significant risks that could jeopardize the success of the
  project? How are these risks being managed? What contingency plans are ready?
  • The risks remain the same as last week and they are being managed the same
• Were any changes made to the existing design of the system (requirements,
  block diagram, system spec, etc)? Why was this change necessary, what costs
  does the change incur, and how will these costs be mitigated going forward?
  • No changes were made
• Provide an updated schedule if changes have occurred.
  • No changes

• What are the most significant risks that could jeopardize the success of the
  project? How are these risks being managed? What contingency plans are ready?
  • The risks remain the same as last week and they are being managed the same
• Were any changes made to the existing design of the system (requirements,
  block diagram, system spec, etc)? Why was this change necessary, what costs
  does the change incur, and how will these costs be mitigated going forward?
  • No changes were made
• Provide an updated schedule if changes have occurred.
  • No changes

• What are the most significant risks that could jeopardize the success of the
  project? How are these risks being managed? What contingency plans are ready?
  • The risks remain the same as last week and they are being managed the same
• Were any changes made to the existing design of the system (requirements,
  block diagram, system spec, etc)? Why was this change necessary, what costs
  does the change incur, and how will these costs be mitigated going forward?
  • No changes were made
• Provide an updated schedule if changes have occurred.
  • No changes
• As you’ve now established a set of sub-systems necessary to implement your project, what new tools have your team determined will be necessary for you to learn to be able to accomplish these tasks?
  • Implement binning stft with constant q transform

Enumerate how you have adjusted your team work assignments to fill in gaps related to either new design challenges or team shortfalls (e.g. a team member missing a deadline).

To be able to effectively utilize the capabilities of the audio/esp32 board, Sachit and Eli are making time to develop a workflow for working with the board.

What are the most significant risks that could jeopardize the success of the project? How are these risks being managed? What contingency plans are ready?

The most significant risk of this project is the generative music model. If the model doesn’t generate pleasant music that would significantly affect the user experience. To mitigate these risks the first approach to building the model will closely follow the research paper  https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.04281. After we have a baseline performance with this model we will modify and optimize the performance.

Since pitch detection is being done on a platform we haven’t used before, there is a risk doing ground up pitch detection will not work as well as we hope. There are a lot of other pitch detection options if this does not work.

Since none of us have used the audio/esp32 board we got, there could be unforseen challenges with using it. If we can’t get it working this week, we will likely opt to record directly to the cloud with cell phones.

Were any changes made to the existing design of the system (requirements, block diagram, system spec, etc)? Why was this change necessary, what costs does the change incur, and how will these costs be mitigated going forward?

The design is the same, no changes made so far.

Provide an updated schedule if changes have occurred.

No changes.
This is also the place to put some photos of your progress or to brag about a component you got working.

 

Please enumerate one or more principles of engineering, science and mathematics that your team used to develop the the design solution for your project. 

 

What are the most significant risks that could jeopardize the success of the project? How are these risks being managed? What contingency plans are ready?

The most significant risk of this project is the generative music model. If the model doesn’t generate pleasant music that would significantly affect the user experience. To mitigate these risks the first approach to building the model will closely follow the research paper  https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.04281. After we have a baseline performance with this model we will modify and optimize the performance.

Were any changes made to the existing design of the system (requirements, block diagram, system spec, etc)? Why was this change necessary, what costs does the change incur, and how will these costs be mitigated going forward?

We decided to use a transformer based architecture instead of a GAN based architecture, as this would allow more user influence over the music generated. At this stage it did not incure significant costs

Provide an updated schedule if changes have occurred.

This is also the place to put some photos of your progress or to brag about a component you got working.

What are the most significant risks that could jeopardize the success of the project? How are these risks being managed? What contingency plans are ready?

Based on the first few weeks, we had not been able to come together as a team for a concept that makes sense and works for all of us until today. To manage risk of further delay, making sure to make and keep short term goals to keep the project on track will be imperative.

Additionally, One of the key components of this project is the generative music model. The goal is to implement a transformer based model from scratch in pytorch, but due to complications such as convergence issues the option to import models is present as a contingency plan. Imported models can be instantiated with or without pre trained weights and even pre trained models can be fine-tuned according to project specifications.

Were any changes made to the existing design of the system (requirements, block diagram, system spec, etc)? Why was this change necessary, what costs does the change incur, and how will these costs be mitigated going forward?

We have decided to change our project to an ML enhanced loop pedal for guitarists. The change was necessary because there was not enough user interaction with the ML model in our previous project idea.

Provide an updated schedule if changes have occurred.

This is also the place to put some photos of your progress or to brag about a component you got working.