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Automatic Musical Genre Classification Using a Flexible Approach

Authors: Barbedo, Jayme Garcia Arnal; Lopes, Amauri

Journal of the Audio Engineering Society · Volume 56 · Issue 7/8 · pp. 560–568 · July 2008

Abstract

An automated method for classifying music signals into genres is proposed. Up to three genres are assigned to each example along with a measure of the degree of influence. The method is based on a structure formed by taxonomy of four hierarchical layers, with 29 genres in the lowest layer and 10 target genres in the higher layers. In more than 77% of the cases there was successful classification. The computational effort is sufficiently low that this method could be used in real time.

Details

Publication
Journal of the Audio Engineering Society
Volume
56
Issue
7/8
Pages
560–568
Publication date
July 6, 2008
Affiliation
Department of Communications, FEEC, UNICAMP, 13.083-852, Campinas, SP, Brazil (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Journal Article