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Music genre classification has attracted a lot of research interest due to the rapid growth of digital music. Despite the availability of a vast number of audio features and classification techniques, genre classification still remains a challenging task. In this work we propose a class centric feature and classifier ensemble selection method which deviates from the conventional practice of employing a single, or an ensemble of classifiers trained with a selected set of audio features. We adopt a binary decomposition technique to divide the multiclass problem into a set of binary problems which are then treated in a class specific manner. This differs from the traditional techniques which operate on the naive assumption that a specific set of features and/or classifiers can perform equally well in identifying all the classes. Experimental results obtained on a popular genre dataset and a newly created dataset suggest significant improvements over traditional techniques.
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Ariyaratne, H.B., Zhang, D., Lu, G. (2012). A Class Centric Feature and Classifier Ensemble Selection Approach for Music Genre Classification. In: Gimel’farb, G., et al. Structural, Syntactic, and Statistical Pattern Recognition. SSPR /SPR 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7626. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34166-3_73
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