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Automatic classification of drum sounds a comparison of feature selection methods and classification techniques

Title Automatic classification of drum sounds a comparison of feature selection methods and classification techniques
Publication Type Conference Paper
Year of Publication 2002
Conference Name International Conference on Music and Artificial Intelligence (ICMAI)
Authors Herrera, P. , Yeterian A. , & Gouyon F.
Conference Start Date 12/09/2002
Conference Location Edinburgh, Scotland
Abstract We present a comparative evaluation of automatic classification of a sound database containing more than six hundred drum sounds (kick, snare, hihat, toms and cymbals). A preliminary set of fifty descriptors has been refined with the help of different techniques and some final reduced sets including around twenty features have been selected as the most relevant. We have then tested different classification techniques (instance-based, statistical-based, and tree-based) using ten-fold cross-validation. Three levels of taxonomic classification have been tested membranes versus plates (super-category level), kick vs. snare vs. hihat vs. toms vs. cymbals (basic level), and some basic classes (kick and snare) plus some sub-classes –i.e. ride, crash, open-hihat, closed hihat, high-tom, medium-tom, low-tom- (sub-category level). Very high hitrates have been achieved (99%, 97%, and 90% respectively) with several of the tested techniques.

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