Automatic genre classification of music content

IEEE Signal Processing Magazine

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 133-141

  Scaringella, Nicolas ^a   Zoia, Giorgio ^a   Mlynek, Daniel ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC PROGRAMMING; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DIGITAL LIBRARIES; EXPERT SYSTEMS; FILE ORGANIZATION;

AUDIO DATA; AUTOMATIC ORGANIZATIONS; MUSIC GENRES;

COMPUTER MUSIC;

EID: 85032752479     PISSN: 10535888     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MSP.2006.1598089     Document Type: Article

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