Large-scale study of chord estimation algorithms based on chroma representation and HMM

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Abstract

This paper deals with the automatic estimation of chord progression over time of an audio file. From the audio signal, a set of chroma vectors representing the pitch content of the file over time is extracted. From these observations the chord progression is then estimated using hidden Markov models. Several methods are proposed that allow taking into account music theory, perception of key and presence of higher harmonics of pitch notes. The proposed methods are then compared to existing algorithms. A large-scale evaluation on 110 hand-labeled songs from the Beatles allows concluding on improvement over the state of the art.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCBMI'2007 - 2007 International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing, Proceedings
Pages53-60
Number of pages8
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Dec 2007
Externally publishedYes
EventCBMI'2007 - 2007 International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing - Bordeaux, France
Duration: 25 Jun 200727 Jun 2007

Publication series

NameCBMI'2007 - 2007 International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing, Proceedings

Conference

ConferenceCBMI'2007 - 2007 International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityBordeaux
Period25/06/0727/06/07

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