Predicting agreement and disagreement in the perception of tempo

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Abstract

In the absence of a music score, tempo can only be defined by its perception by users. Thus recent studies have focused on the estimation of perceptual tempo defined by listening experiments. So far, algorithms have only been proposed to estimate the tempo when people agree on it. In this paper, we study the case when people disagree on the perception of tempo and propose an algorithm to predict this disagreement. For this, we hypothesize that the perception of tempo is correlated to a set of variations of various viewpoints on the audio content: energy, harmony, spectral-balance variations and short-term-similarity-rate. We suppose that when those variations are coherent, a shared perception of tempo is favoured and when they are not, people may perceive different tempi.We then propose several statistical models to predict the agreement or disagreement in the perception of tempo from these audio features. Finally, we evaluate the models using a test-set resulting from the perceptual experiment performed at Last-FM in 2011.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSound, Music, and Motion - 10th International Symposium, CMMR 2013, Revised Selected Papers
EditorsMitsuko Aramaki, Mitsuko Aramaki, Olivier Derrien, Richard Kronland-Martinet, Sølvi Ystad
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages313-329
Number of pages17
ISBN (Electronic)9783319129754
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2014
Externally publishedYes
Event10th International Symposium on Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research, CMMR 2013 - Marseille, France
Duration: 15 Oct 201318 Oct 2013

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume8905
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference10th International Symposium on Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research, CMMR 2013
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityMarseille
Period15/10/1318/10/13

Keywords

  • Perceptual tempo
  • Tempo agreement
  • Tempo disagreement
  • Tempo estimation

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