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Conference Paper

Music Genre Estimation from Low Level Audio Features

Authors: Allamanche, Eric; Kastner, Thorsten; Wistorf, Ralf; Lefebvre, Nicolas; Herre, Juergen

AES Conference: 25th International Conference: Metadata for Audio · Paper 6-3 · June 2004

Abstract

Despite the subjective nature of associating a certain song or artist with a specific musical genre, this type of characterization is frequently used to provide a convenient way of expressing very coarse information on the basic stylistic and rhythmic elements and/or instrumentation of a song. An audio database which is structured according to different musical genres is the first important step to provide an easy/intuitive access to a large music collection. Thus, a convenient way for indexing large databases by musical genre is desired. This paper describes a system which automatically classifies music into several musical genres. Different features as well as classification strategies will be evaluated and compared. The system's performance is assessed by means of a subjective listening test.

Details

Published in
AES Conference: 25th International Conference: Metadata for Audio
Paper number
6-3
Publication date
June 6, 2004
Session subject
Metadata for Audio
Affiliation
Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS, Erlangen, Germany ; Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology IDMT, Ilmenau, Germany (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Conference Paper