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An Evaluation of Pre-Processing Algorithms for Rhythmic Pattern Analysis

Authors: Gruhne, Matthias; Dittmar, Christian; Gaertner, Daniel; Schuller, Gerald

AES Convention 125 · Paper 7542 · October 2008

Abstract

For the semantic analysis of polyphonic music, such as genre recognition, rhythmic pattern features (also called Beat Histogram) can be used. Feature extraction is based on the correlation of rhythmic information from drum instruments in the audio signal. In addition to drum instruments, the sounds of pitched instruments are usually also part of the music signal to analyze. This can have a significant influence on the correlation patterns. This paper describes the influence of pitched instruments for the extraction of rhythmic features, and evaluates two different pre-processing methods. One method computes a sinusoidal and noise model, where its residual signal is used for feature extraction. In the second method, a drum transcription based on spectral characteristics of drum sounds is performed, and the rhythm pattern feature is derived directly from the occurrences of the drum events. Finally, the results are explained and compared in detail.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 125
AES Convention
125
Paper number
7542
Publication date
October 6, 2008
Session subject
Audio Content Management
Affiliation
Fraunhofer IDMT; Ilmenau Technical University (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper