TY - GEN
T1 - Vocalist gender recognition in recorded popular music
AU - Schuller, Björn
AU - Kozielski, Christoph
AU - Weninger, Felix
AU - Eyben, Florian
AU - Rigoll, Gerhard
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - We introduce the task of vocalist gender recognition in popular music and evaluate the benefit of Non-Negative Matrix Factorization based enhancement of melodic components to this aim. The underlying automatic separation of drum beats is described in detail, and the obtained significant gain by its use is verified in extensive test-runs on a novel database of 1.5 days of MP3 coded popular songs based on transcriptions of the Karaoke-game UltraStar. As classifiers serve Support Vector Machines and Hidden Naive Bayes. Overall, the suggested methods lead to fully automatic recognition of the pre-dominant vocalist gender at 87.31% accuracy on song level for artists unkown to the system in originally recorded music.
AB - We introduce the task of vocalist gender recognition in popular music and evaluate the benefit of Non-Negative Matrix Factorization based enhancement of melodic components to this aim. The underlying automatic separation of drum beats is described in detail, and the obtained significant gain by its use is verified in extensive test-runs on a novel database of 1.5 days of MP3 coded popular songs based on transcriptions of the Karaoke-game UltraStar. As classifiers serve Support Vector Machines and Hidden Naive Bayes. Overall, the suggested methods lead to fully automatic recognition of the pre-dominant vocalist gender at 87.31% accuracy on song level for artists unkown to the system in originally recorded music.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84873585840
SN - 9789039353813
T3 - Proceedings of the 11th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, ISMIR 2010
SP - 613
EP - 618
BT - Proceedings of the 11th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, ISMIR 2010
T2 - 11th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, ISMIR 2010
Y2 - 9 August 2010 through 13 August 2010
ER -