Learning stochastic finite automata for musical style recognition

  • Authors:
  • Colin de la Higuera;Frédéric Piat;Frédéric Tantini

  • Affiliations:
  • EURISE, Université de Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne, France;EURISE, Université de Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne, France;EURISE, Université de Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne, France

  • Venue:
  • CIAA'05 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Implementation and Application of Automata
  • Year:
  • 2005

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.00

Visualization

Abstract

We use stochastic deterministic finite automata to model musical styles: a same automaton can be used to classify new melodies but also to generate them. Through grammatical inference these automata are learned and new pieces of music can be parsed. We show that this works by proposing promising classification results.