Learning audio features for genre classification with deep belief networks

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2018-12-04

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Noolu, Satya

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Feature extraction is a crucial part of many music information retrieval(MIR) tasks. In this project, I present an end to end deep neural network that extract the features for a given audio sample, performs genre classification. The feature extraction is based on Discrete Fourier Transforms (DFTs) of the audio. The extracted features are used to train over a Deep Belief Network (DBN). A DBN is built out of multiple layers of Randomized Boltzmann Machines (RBMs), which makes the system a fully connected neural network. The same network is used for testing with a softmax layer at the end which serves as the classifier. This entire task of genre classification has been done with the Tzanetakis dataset and yielded a test accuracy of 74.6%.

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Machine Learning, Neural Networks, Deep Belief Networks, Music Information Retrieval, Google cloud platform

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