TY - GEN
T1 - A Conditional Random Field system for beat tracking
AU - Fillon, Thomas
AU - Joder, Cyril
AU - Durand, Simon
AU - Essid, Slim
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 IEEE.
PY - 2015/8/4
Y1 - 2015/8/4
N2 - In the present work, we introduce a new probabilistic model for the task of estimating beat positions in a musical audio recording, instantiating the Conditional Random Field (CRF) framework. Our approach takes its strength from a sophisticated temporal modeling of the audio observations, accounting for local tempo variations which are readily represented in the CRF model proposed using well-chosen potentials. The system is experimentally evaluated by studying its performance on 3 datasets of 1394 music excerpts of various western music styles and comparatively to 4 reference systems in the light of 6 reference evaluation metrics. The results show that the proposed system tracks perceptively coherent pulses and is very effective in estimating the beat positions while further work is needed to find the correct salient tempo.
AB - In the present work, we introduce a new probabilistic model for the task of estimating beat positions in a musical audio recording, instantiating the Conditional Random Field (CRF) framework. Our approach takes its strength from a sophisticated temporal modeling of the audio observations, accounting for local tempo variations which are readily represented in the CRF model proposed using well-chosen potentials. The system is experimentally evaluated by studying its performance on 3 datasets of 1394 music excerpts of various western music styles and comparatively to 4 reference systems in the light of 6 reference evaluation metrics. The results show that the proposed system tracks perceptively coherent pulses and is very effective in estimating the beat positions while further work is needed to find the correct salient tempo.
KW - Beat tracking
KW - Conditional Random Fields
KW - Music Information Retrieval
U2 - 10.1109/ICASSP.2015.7178004
DO - 10.1109/ICASSP.2015.7178004
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84946032979
T3 - ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
SP - 424
EP - 428
BT - 2015 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2015 - Proceedings
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 40th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2015
Y2 - 19 April 2014 through 24 April 2014
ER -