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Improving music genre classification using automatically induced harmony rules
We present a new genre classification framework using both low-level signal-based features and high-level harmony features. A state-of-the-art statistical genre classifier based on timbral features is extended using a first-order random forest containing for each genre rules derived from harmony or chord sequences. This random forest has been automatically induced, using the first-order logic induction algorithm TILDE, from a dataset, in which for each chord the degree and chord category are identified, and covering classical, jazz and pop genre classes. The audio descriptor-based genre classifier contains 206 features, covering spectral, temporal, energy, and pitch characteristics of the audio signal. The fusion of the harmony-based classifier with the extracted feature vectors is tested on three-genre subsets of the GTZAN and ISMIR04 datasets, which contain 300 and 448 recordings, respectively. Machine learning classifiers were tested using 5 Ă— 5-fold cross-validation and feature selection. Results indicate that the proposed harmony-based rules combined with the timbral descriptor-based genre classification system lead to improved genre classification rates
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Improving music genre classification using automatically induced harmony rules
We present a new genre classification framework using both low-level signal-based features and high-level harmony features. A state-of-the-art statistical genre classifier based on timbral features is extended using a first-order random forest containing for each genre rules derived from harmony or chord sequences. This random forest has been automatically induced, using the first-order logic induction algorithm TILDE, from a dataset, in which for each chord the degree and chord category are identified, and covering classical, jazz and pop genre classes. The audio descriptor-based genre classifier contains 206 features, covering spectral, temporal, energy, and pitch characteristics of the audio signal. The fusion of the harmony-based classifier with the extracted feature vectors is tested on three-genre subsets of the GTZAN and ISMIR04 datasets, which contain 300 and 448 recordings, respectively. Machine learning classifiers were tested using 5 Ă— 5-fold cross-validation and feature selection. Results indicate that the proposed harmony-based rules combined with the timbral descriptor-based genre classification system lead to improved genre classification rates
Modeling musicological information as trigrams in a system for simultaneous chord and local key extraction
In this paper, we discuss the introduction of a trigram musicological model in a simultaneous chord and local key extraction system. By enlarging the context of the musicological model, we hoped to achieve a higher accuracy that could justify the associated higher complexity and computational load of the search for the optimal solution. Experiments on multiple data sets have demonstrated that the trigram model has indeed a larger predictive power (a lower perplexity). This raised predictive power resulted in an improvement in the key extraction capabilities, but no improvement in chord extraction when compared to a system with a bigram musicological model
The Effect of Explicit Structure Encoding of Deep Neural Networks for Symbolic Music Generation
With recent breakthroughs in artificial neural networks, deep generative
models have become one of the leading techniques for computational creativity.
Despite very promising progress on image and short sequence generation,
symbolic music generation remains a challenging problem since the structure of
compositions are usually complicated. In this study, we attempt to solve the
melody generation problem constrained by the given chord progression. This
music meta-creation problem can also be incorporated into a plan recognition
system with user inputs and predictive structural outputs. In particular, we
explore the effect of explicit architectural encoding of musical structure via
comparing two sequential generative models: LSTM (a type of RNN) and WaveNet
(dilated temporal-CNN). As far as we know, this is the first study of applying
WaveNet to symbolic music generation, as well as the first systematic
comparison between temporal-CNN and RNN for music generation. We conduct a
survey for evaluation in our generations and implemented Variable Markov Oracle
in music pattern discovery. Experimental results show that to encode structure
more explicitly using a stack of dilated convolution layers improved the
performance significantly, and a global encoding of underlying chord
progression into the generation procedure gains even more.Comment: 8 pages, 13 figure
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