Recognition and summarization of chord progressions and their application to music information retrieval

Yi Yu, Roger Zimmermann, Ye Wang, Vincent Oria

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Abstract

Accurate and compact representation of music signals is a key component of large-scale content-based music applications such as music content management and near duplicate audio detection. This problem is not well solved yet despite many research efforts in this field. In this paper, we suggest mid-level summarization of music signals based on chord progressions. More specially, in our proposed algorithm, chord progressions are recognized from music signals based on a supervised learning model, and recognition accuracy is improved by locally probing n-best candidates. By investigating the properties of chord progressions, we further calculate a histogram from the probed chord progressions as a summary of the music signal. We show that the chord progression-based summarization is a powerful feature descriptor for representing harmonic progressions and tonal structures of music signals. The proposed algorithm is evaluated with content-based music retrieval as a typical application. The experimental results on a dataset with more than 70,000 songs confirm that our algorithm can effectively improve summarization accuracy of musical audio contents and retrieval performance, and enhance music retrieval applications on large-scale audio databases.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2012 IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia, ISM 2012
Pages9-16
Number of pages8
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Event14th IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia, ISM 2012 - Irvine, CA, United States
Duration: Dec 10 2012Dec 12 2012

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2012 IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia, ISM 2012

Other

Other14th IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia, ISM 2012
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityIrvine, CA
Period12/10/1212/12/12

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Software

Keywords

  • Audio representing and computing
  • Chord progression-based summarization
  • Locality sensitive hashing
  • Music-IR

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