Subject: Computerized genre analysis (fwd: AUDITORY)
From: Kevin Austin (kevin.austin@videotron.ca)
Date: Sun Nov 11 2007 - 16:08:56 EST
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 11:29:55 -0600
From: Lawrence Borden <lawrence.borden@VANDERBILT.EDU>
Subject: Computerized genre analysis
Hi Folks,
Can anyone suggest research that has resulted in genre classification by
computerized analysis? Humans seem to do this by making statements like "oh
that sounds a little like Bob Marley." The underlying similarities are
clearly being analyzed against the listener's memories of remembered/heard
works. How would or has a computer gone about the same task?
I can imagine that a good algorithm would get better and better results with
more and more musical samples. True??
Larry
Lawrence Borden
Associate Professor of Trombone,
Vanderbilt University
Blair School of Music
Principal Trombone,
Nashville Symphony Orchestra
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Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 18:57:59 +0100
From: Emmanuel Vincent <emmanuel.vincent@IRISA.FR>
Subject: Re: Computerized genre analysis
Hi Larry,
Much work has been done on this issue in the last 5 years. Existing
computer systems are indeed trained on large databases and performance
improves with the size of the database. You can have a look here first:
http://www.music-ir.org/mirex2007/index.php/Audio_Genre_Classification_Results
(click on the entrants' names to read their papers)
A few studies have been done with human subjects with no prior training.
The conclusion was that humans achieved similar performance to computer
systems, say around 75% accuracy for 10 genres.
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel5/9248/29346/01326806.pdf
However the notion of genre typically varies among people. So humans could
probably achieve higher accuracy if they were subject to the same training
procedure than computer systems. This has not yet been studied to my
knowledge (DAn knows better than me though).
Best,
Emmanuel
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