We report a series of studies related to automatically labeling sounds from unpitched percussion instruments. Different databases have been set up in order to study relevant factors for labeling different sets of classes (up to 32 instruments, drum kit sounds, electronic sounds, manufacturer 'acoustic' signatures). Usual spectral features (i.e. centroid, skewness, etc.), Bark-band relative energies, and Mel-Frequency Cepstral coefficients, besides some additional original descriptors have been evaluated alongside different feature selection strategies. Classification techniques having different flavors and tradeoffs (k-NN, Kernel Density, Canonical Discriminant Analysis, Binary trees, etc.) have been also evaluated. It is shown that the feature set can be reduced by factors ranging from 2 to 3 without affecting performance, and that performance differences between classification techniques are in the order of 10% between the best (usually Kernel Density estimation) and the worst tested technique. For the most complex problem (classification of 32 sound categories) best hit rates were of up to 80%, whereas for drum kit problems containing 9 or less classes, performance increased to 88%, even using independent sample cross-validation. Very high success rates have been also achieved when labeling manufacturer-model, and when classifying drum machine sounds.
Authors:
Herrera, Perfecto; Dehamel, Amaury; Gouyon, Fabien
Affiliations:
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain ; École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, Paris, France (See document for exact affiliation information.)
AES Convention:
114 (March 2003)
Paper Number:
5806
Publication Date:
March 1, 2003
Subject:
Analysis and Synthesis of Sound
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