Understanding effects of subjectivity in measuring chord estimation accuracy

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2607-2615

  Ni, Yizhao ^a   McVicar, Matt ^a   Santos Rodriguez, Raul ^a   De Bie, Tijl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

automatic chord estimation; music information retrieval; sequence crowd learning; Subjectivity evaluation

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION SYSTEMS; HARMONIC STRUCTURES; MUSIC INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; POLYPHONIC MUSIC; SEQUENCE CROWD LEARNING; SUBJECTIVITY EVALUATION;

ACOUSTICS; ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 84887364231     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2013.2280218     Document Type: Article

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