Convolutional Neural Network Achieves Human-level Accuracy in Music Genre Classification

02/27/2018

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by   Mingwen Dong, et al.

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Music genre classification is one example of content-based analysis of music signals. Traditionally, human-engineered features were used to automatize this task and 61 However, it's still below the 70 same task. Here, we propose a new method that combines knowledge of human perception study in music genre classification and the neurophysiology of the auditory system. The method works by training a simple convolutional neural network (CNN) to classify a short segment of the music signal. Then, the genre of a music is determined by splitting it into short segments and then combining CNN's predictions from all short segments. After training, this method achieves human-level (70 spectrotemporal receptive field (STRF) in the auditory system.