Towards Automatic Retrieval of Album Covers

We present first steps towards intelligent retrieval of music album covers from the web. The continuous growth of electronic music distribution constantly increases the interest in methods to automatically provide added value like lyrics or album covers. While existing approaches rely on large proprietary databases, we focus on methods that make use of the whole web by using Google’s or A9.com’s image search. We evaluate the current state of the approach and point out directions for further improvements.