The Latin Music Database: Uma Base de Dados Para a Classificacao Automatica de Generos Musicais

Abstract

In this paper we present the Latin Music Database, a novel database of Latin musical recordings which was developed for automatic music genre classification but can also be used to other tasks related to music information retrieval (MIR) research. The method for assigning genres to the musical recordings is a novel one and it is based on human perception. Furthermore, the underlying framework allows that the database can be easily expanded and have all the features desired by the research community of audio information retrieval