Content-based music indexing and organization

Andreas Rauber, Elias Pampalk, Dieter Merkl
2002 Proceedings of the 25th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval - SIGIR '02  
While electronic music archives are gaining popularity, access to and navigation within these archives is usually limited to text-based queries or manually prede ned genre category browsing. We present a system that automatically organizes a music collection according to the perceived sound similarity r esembling genres or styles of music. Audio signals are processed according to psychoacoustic models to obtain a time-invariant representation of its characteristics. Subsequent clustering prov i
more » ... d e s a n i n tuitive i n terface where similar pieces of music are grouped together on a map display.
doi:10.1145/564437.564468 fatcat:re6spoaab5aknmhv2cikty4oni