Final Year / MSc Project - recommended titles

Music Data Analysis
    profiling MIDI data for  music database
    performance critics using MIDI data
    extracting emotion from live MIDI performance
    MIDI-to-score with tempo variation compensation
    key detection
    automatic accompaniment generation
    testing a music theory with MIDI data

Audio Data Analysis
    pitch tracking
    tempo tracking
    audio-to-MIDI

Building a Music Instrument
    "new" music controller for real-time performance (possible with MAX/MIDI)
    "old" instrument with modern technique (such as Theremen, vocoder, keyboard-less keyboard...)

Sound Synthesis
    sound granulation - see http://www.brunel.ac.uk/~eesttti/papers/grain_video.html
        audio for slow motion picture
        audio for fast forwarding video
    additive synthesis - see
        multi-sampling rate additive synthesis - see http://www.brunel.ac.uk/~eesttti/papers/cmj_ed.html

Digital TV
    parallel information delivery on DVB and IP
    handover between mobile TV broadcasting and wireless network
    review on mobile TV delivery (DVB-H, DMB, ISDB-T mobile...)
    HDTV transmission over wireless network
    next generation mobile phone system