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Violin Sound Computer Classification Based on Expert Knowledge

Authors: Robak, Adam; Lukasik, Ewa

AES Convention 134 · Paper 8815 · May 2013

Abstract

The paper presents results of the analysis of violins recorded during the final stage of the international violin-makers competition held in Poznan in 2011. In the quest for attributes that are both efficient for machine learning and interpretable for human experts we referred to the research of violin acousticians: Duennwald, Buen, and Fritz and calculated violin sound power in frequency bands recommended by these researchers. The resulting features, obtained for the averaged spectra of the musical pieces played at the competition, were used for clustering and classification experiments. Results are discussed, and a notable experiment is presented where the classifier assigns each analyzed violin to an instrument from the precedent violinmakers’ competition (2001) and compares their ranking.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 134
AES Convention
134
Paper number
8815
Publication date
May 6, 2013
Session subject
Audio Signal Processing
Affiliation
Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper