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Towards efficient music genre classification using FastMap

Towards efficient music genre classification using FastMap
Towards efficient music genre classification using FastMap
Automatic genre classification aims to correctly categorize an unknown recording with a music genre. Recent studies use the Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence to estimate music similarity then perform classification using k-nearest neighbours (k-NN). However, this approach is not practical for large databases. We propose an efficient genre classifier that addresses the scalability problem. It uses a combination of modified FastMap algorithm and KL divergence to return the nearest neighbours then use 1- NN for classification. Our experiments showed that high accuracies are obtained while performing classification in less than 1/20 second per track.
de Leon, Franz
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Martinez, Kirk
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de Leon, Franz
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Martinez, Kirk
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de Leon, Franz and Martinez, Kirk (2012) Towards efficient music genre classification using FastMap. Towards efficient music genre classification using FastMap. 4 pp .

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Automatic genre classification aims to correctly categorize an unknown recording with a music genre. Recent studies use the Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence to estimate music similarity then perform classification using k-nearest neighbours (k-NN). However, this approach is not practical for large databases. We propose an efficient genre classifier that addresses the scalability problem. It uses a combination of modified FastMap algorithm and KL divergence to return the nearest neighbours then use 1- NN for classification. Our experiments showed that high accuracies are obtained while performing classification in less than 1/20 second per track.

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Published date: 17 September 2012
Venue - Dates: Towards efficient music genre classification using FastMap, 2012-09-17
Organisations: Web & Internet Science, Electronics & Computer Science

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Local EPrints ID: 361423
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/361423
PURE UUID: f32f0f86-b531-4aa6-9a62-fc9ab99b48b5
ORCID for Kirk Martinez: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-3859-5700

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Date deposited: 23 Jan 2014 16:08
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 02:53

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Author: Franz de Leon
Author: Kirk Martinez ORCID iD

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