Generalizability and Simplicity as Criteria in Feature Selection: Application to Mood Classification in Music

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1802-1812

  Saari, Pasi ^a   Eerola, Tuomas ^a   Lartillot, Olivier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

Cross indexing; feature selection; music and emotion; musical features; overfitting; wrapper selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008062084     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: 15587924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2010.2101596     Document Type: Article

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