Towards a universal representation for audio information retrieval and analysis

Bjørn Sand Jensen, Rasmus Troelsgaard, Jan Larsen, Lars Kai Hansen

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Abstract

A fundamental and general representation of audio and music which integrates multi-modal data sources is important for both application and basic research purposes. In this paper we address this challenge by proposing a multi-modal version of the Latent Dirichlet Allocation model which provides a joint latent representation. We evaluate this representation on the Million Song Dataset by integrating three fundamentally different modalities, namely tags, lyrics, and audio features. We show how the resulting representation is aligned with common 'cognitive' variables such as tags, and provide some evidence for the common assumption that genres form an acceptable categorization when evaluating latent representations of music. We furthermore quantify the model by its predictive performance in terms of genre and style, providing benchmark results for the Million Song Dataset.
Original languageEnglish
JournalI E E E International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing. Proceedings
Pages (from-to)3168 - 3172
ISSN1520-6149
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2013
Event2013 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Vancouver Convention and Exhibition Centre, Vancouver, Canada
Duration: 26 May 201331 May 2013
Conference number: 38
http://www.icassp2013.com/

Conference

Conference2013 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing
Number38
LocationVancouver Convention and Exhibition Centre
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityVancouver
Period26/05/201331/05/2013
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Bibliographical note

This work was supported in part by the Danish Council for Strategic Research of the Danish Agency for Science Technology and Innovation under the CoSound project, case number 11-115328

Keywords

  • Signal Processing and Analysis

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