Enhancing downbeat detection when facing different music styles

Simon Durand, Bertrand David, Gael Richard

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Abstract

This paper focuses on the automatic rhythm analysis of musical audio at the bar level. We propose a novel approach for robust downbeat detection. It uses well-chosen complementary features, inspired by musical considerations. In particular, a note accentuation model and a detection of pattern changes are introduced. We estimate the time signature by examining the similarity of frames at the beat level. The features are selected through a linear SVM model or a weighted sum. The whole system is evaluated on five different datasets of various musical styles and shows improvement over the state of the art.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2014 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2014
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages3132-3136
Number of pages5
ISBN (Print)9781479928927
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2014
Externally publishedYes
Event2014 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2014 - Florence, Italy
Duration: 4 May 20149 May 2014

Publication series

NameICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
ISSN (Print)1520-6149

Conference

Conference2014 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2014
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityFlorence
Period4/05/149/05/14

Keywords

  • Downbeat-tracking
  • Music Information Retrieval
  • Music Signal Processing

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