====== Music Informatics ====== ===== Members ===== * [[staff:vatolkin|Igor Vatolkin]] * [[staff:rudolph|Günter Rudolph]] * [[staff:ostermann|Fabian Ostermann]] Research focus topics and daily updates can be found on members' personal websites. ===== Research Network ===== * [[http://www.sig-ma.de|Special Interest Group on Music Analysis]] (SIGMA) ===== Activities ===== {{page>:staff:vatolkin:researchinterests#development_of_amuse_advanced_music_explorer&nofooter&noeditbutton}} [[https://github.com/AdvancedMUSicExplorer/AMUSE|Visit GitHub development page of AMUSE.]] {{page>:staff:vatolkin:researchinterests#ci_methods_for_music_information_retrieval&nofooter&noeditbutton}} ==== Music Test Database ==== For the evaluation of music classification tasks we use a database of 120 commercial music albums purchased for our research group. The CDs are distributed among 6 [[http://www.allmusic.com|AllMusicGuide]] genres:

	Classic	Electronica	Jazz	Pop/Rock	R&B	Rap
CD number	15	15	15	45	15	15

* [[rudolph:mi:AlbumList|Album list]] * [[rudolph:mi:OS120|Test set OS120]] (optimization set for experiments, with focus on evolutionary multi-objective feature selection) * [[rudolph:mi:TS120|Test set TS120]] (song-independent test set from the same albums as OS120 for the evaluation of optimized models) * [[rudolph:mi:TSAI120|Test set TAS120]] (artist-independent test set with the same genre distribution) The following audio features are used for classification (for definitions and the difference between low-level and high-level features see [[https://eldorado.tu-dortmund.de/handle/2003/30402]]) * [[rudolph:mi:LL636|636 low-level audio descriptors]] * [[rudolph:mi:HL566|566 high-level audio descriptors]] ==== Instrument Sample Database ==== Currently, the following instrument samples are used for the experiments on instrument recognition: * [[https://ls11-www.cs.tu-dortmund.de/people/vatol/Instruments.arff|Instruments and styles]]