Automatic music genres classification as a pattern recognition problem
Ihtisham Ul Haq, Fauzia R Khan, Sana Sharif, Arsalan Shaukat · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 2013
Music genres are the simplest and effect descriptors for searching music libraries stores or catalogues. The paper compares the results of two automatic music genres classification systems implemented by using two different yet simple classifiers (K-Nearest Neighbor and Naïve Bayes). First a 10-12 second sample is selected and features are extracted from it, and then based on those features results of both classifiers are represented in the form of accuracy table and confusion matrix. An experiment carried out on test 60 taken from middle of a song represents the true essence of its genre as compared to the samples taken from beginning and ending of a song. The novel techniques have achieved an accuracy of 91% and 78% by using Naïve Bayes and KNN classifiers respectively.