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Melody Characterization by a Genetic Fuzzy System

Title Melody Characterization by a Genetic Fuzzy System
Publication Type Conference Paper
Year of Publication 2008
Conference Name Sound and Music Computing Conference
Authors Ponce León, P. , Rizo D. , Ramirez R. , & Iñesta J. M.
Abstract We present preliminary work on automatic human-readable melody characterization. In order to obtain such a characterization, we (1) extract a set of statistical descriptors from the tracks in a dataset of MIDI files, (2) apply a rule induction algorithm to obtain a set of (crisp) classification rules for melody track identification, and (3) automatically transform the crisp rules into fuzzy rules by applying a genetic algorithm to generate the membership functions for the rule attributes.
preprint/postprint document http://mtg.upf.edu/files/publications/smc-fuzzy-08.pdf