Music Genre Classification With Neural Networks: An Examination Of Several Impactful Variables
Year: 2018
Type: article
Abstract: There have been several attempts to classify music with content-based machine learning approaches. Most of these projects followed a similar procedure with a Deep Belief Network. In this project, we examined the performance of convolutional neural networks (CNN) and recurrent neural networks (RNN) as well as other components of a classification architecture, such as the choice of dataset, pre-processing techniques, and the sample size. Under a controlled environment, we discovered that the most successful architecture was a Mel-spectrogram combined with a CNN. Although our results fell behind the state-of-the-art performance, we outperform other music classification studies that use a CNN by a large margin. By performing binary classification, we also discovered individuality across genres that caused inconsistent performance.
Author: Jingqing Yang
Language: English
Topic: Music and Audio Processing
Subfield: Signal Processing
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2803854868