Quantitative analysis of a common audio similarity measure

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 693-703

  Jensen, Jesper Højvang ^a,b   Christensen, Mads Græsbøll ^a,b   Ellis, Daniel P W ^a,b   Jensen, Søren Holdt ^a,b  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Melody; Musical instrument classification; Timbre recognition

Indexed keywords

BIT RATES; DISTANCE MEASURES; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODELS; HIGHLY SENSITIVES; KULLBACK-LEIBLER DIVERGENCES; MEL-FREQUENCY CEPSTRAL COEFFICIENTS; MELODY; MIDI FILES; MUSIC INFORMATION RETRIEVALS; NEAREST NEIGHBOR CLASSIFIERS; PROOF OF CONCEPTS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SAMPLE RATES; SIMILARITY MEASURES; SOURCE SEPARATIONS; THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS; TIMBRE RECOGNITION;

INFORMATION SERVICES; INSTRUMENTS; MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 65249156636     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2008.2012314     Document Type: Article

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