Improved music similarity computation based on tone objects

  • Authors:
  • Johannes Krasser;Jakob Abeßer;Holger Großmann;Christian Dittmar;Estefanía Cano

  • Affiliations:
  • Fraunhofer IDMT, Ilmenau, Germany;Fraunhofer IDMT, Ilmenau, Germany;Fraunhofer IDMT, Ilmenau, Germany;Fraunhofer IDMT, Ilmenau, Germany;Fraunhofer IDMT, Ilmenau, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 7th Audio Mostly Conference: A Conference on Interaction with Sound
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

In this paper, we propose a novel approach for music similarity estimation. It combines temporal segmentation of music signals with source separation into so-called tone objects. We solely use the timbre-related audio features Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC) and Octave-based Spectral Contrast (OSC) to describe the extracted tone objects. First, we compare our approach to a baseline system that employs frame-wise feature extraction and bag-of-frames classification. Second, we set up a system that extracts features on perfectly isolated single track recordings, achieving near perfect classification. Finally, we compare our novel approach against the basis experiments. We find that it clearly outperforms the baseline system in a five-class genre classification task. Our results indicate that tone object based feature extraction clearly improves music similarity estimation.