Exploring Composite Acoustic Features for Efficient Music Similarity Query

Music similarity query based on acoustic content is becoming important with the ever-increasing growth of the music information from emerging applications such as digital libraries and WWW. However, relative techniques are still in their infancy and much less than satisfactory. In this paper, we pre...

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Main Authors: CUI, Bin, SHEN, Jialie, CONG, Gao, SHEN, Heng Tao, YU, Cui
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Language:English
Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2006
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Online Access:https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/1230
http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1180639.1180725
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Institution: Singapore Management University
Language: English
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Summary:Music similarity query based on acoustic content is becoming important with the ever-increasing growth of the music information from emerging applications such as digital libraries and WWW. However, relative techniques are still in their infancy and much less than satisfactory. In this paper, we present a novel index structure, called Composite Feature tree, CF-tree, to facilitate efficient content-based music search adopting multiple musical features. Before constructing the tree structure, we use PCA to transform the extracted features into a new space sorted by the importance of acoustic features. The CF-tree is a balanced multi-way tree structure where each level represents the data space at different dimensionalities. The PCA transformed data and reduced dimensions in the upper levels can alleviate suffering from dimensionality curse. To accurately mimic human perception, an extension, named CF+-tree, is proposed, which further applies multivariable regression to determine the weight of each individual feature. We conduct extensive experiments to evaluate the proposed structures against state-of-art techniques. The experimental results demonstrate superiority of our technique.