Music genre classification: A semi-supervised approach

Soujanya Poria, Alexander Gelbukh, Amir Hussain, Sivaji Bandyopadhyay, Newton Howard

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Abstract

Music genres can be seen as categorical descriptions used to classify music basing on various characteristics such as instrumentation, pitch, rhythmic structure, and harmonic contents. Automatic music genre classification is important for music retrieval in large music collections on the web. We build a classifier that learns from very few labeled examples plus a large quantity of unlabeled data, and show that our methodology outperforms existing supervised and unsupervised approaches. We also identify salient features useful for music genre classification. We achieve 97.1% accuracy of 10-way classification on real-world audio collections.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationPattern Recognition - 5th Mexican Conference, MCPR 2013, Proceedings
Pages254-263
Number of pages10
DOIs
StatePublished - 2013
Event5th Mexican Conference on Pattern Recognition, MCPR 2013 - Queretaro, Mexico
Duration: 26 Jun 201329 Jun 2013

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume7914 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference5th Mexican Conference on Pattern Recognition, MCPR 2013
Country/TerritoryMexico
CityQueretaro
Period26/06/1329/06/13

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