Optimization of Feature Processing Chain in Music Classification by Evolution Strategies

  • Authors:
  • Igor Vatolkin;Wolfgang Theimer

  • Affiliations:
  • TU Dortmund, Germany;Research in Motion, Bochum, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature: PPSN X
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

In this paper a new method based on evolution strategies (ES) is presented to optimize a classifier for personal music categories. The user assigns songs to multiple personal music categories: Examples from each category are selected in order to train a category-specific classifier using musical features as input. The classifier then ranks all songs according to their similarity to the category examples. Since an exhaustive search for parameters maximizing the classifier performance is not feasible an ES is applied. The experiments show a significant performance increase for various music categories due to the ES optimization.