The computer-based harmonic analysis of music recordings with the goal to automatically extract chord labels directly from the given audio material constitutes a major task in music information retrieval. In most automated chord recognition procedures, the given music recording is first converted into a sequence of chroma-based audio features and then pattern matching techniques are applied to map the chroma features to chord labels. In this paper, we analyze the role of the feature extraction step within the recognition pipeline of various chord recognition procedures based on template matching strategies and hidden Markov models. In particular, we report on numerous experiments which show how the various procedures depend on the type of the underlying chroma feature as well as on parameters that control temporal and spectral aspects.

Authors: Jiang, Nanzhu; Grosche, Peter; Konz, Verena; Müller, Meinard
Affiliation: Saarland University and MPI Informatik, Saarbrücken, Germany
AES Conference: 42nd International Conference: Semantic Audio (July 2011)
Paper Number: 7-2
Publication Date: July 22, 2011
Subject: Music Information Retrieval

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