On Efficient Music Genre Classification

Jialie Shen, John Shepherd, Anne H.H. Ngu

Database Systems for Advanced Applications: 10th International Conference, DASFAA 2005, Beijing, China, April 17-20, 2005.


Automatic music genre classification has long been an important problem. However, there is a paucity of literature that addresses the issue, and in addition, reported accuracy is fairly low. In this paper, we present empirical study of a novel music descriptor generation method for efficient content based music genre classification. Analysis and empirical evidence demonstrate that our approach outperforms state-of-the-art approaches in the areas including accuracy of genre classification with various machine learning algorithms, efficiency on training process. Furthermore, its effectiveness is robust against various kinds of audio alternation.

Keys: Music Classification, Genre, Human Factors.


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