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Evaluating Ground Truth for ADRess as a Preprocess for Automatic Musical Instrument Identification

Authors: McKay, Joseph; Gainza, Mikel; Barry, Dan

AES Convention 126 · Paper 7816 · May 2009

Abstract

Most research in musical instrument identification has focused on labeling isolated samples or solo phrases. A robust instrument identification system capable of dealing with polytimbral recordings of instruments remains a necessity in music information retrieval. Experiments are described which evaluate the ground truth of ADRess as a sound source separation technique used as a preprocess to automatic musical instrument identification. The ground truth experiments are based on a number of basic acoustic features, while using a Gaussian Mixture Model as the classification algorithm. Using all 44 acoustic feature dimensions, successful identification rates are achieved.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 126
AES Convention
126
Paper number
7816
Publication date
May 6, 2009
Session subject
Signal Analysis, Measurements, Restoration
Affiliation
Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin, Ireland (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper