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Multiple Scale Music Segmentation Using Rhythm, Timbre, and Harmony
EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing volume 2007, Article number: 073205 (2006)
Abstract
The segmentation of music into intro-chorus-verse-outro, and similar segments, is a difficult topic. A method for performing automatic segmentation based on features related to rhythm, timbre, and harmony is presented, and compared, between the features and between the features and manual segmentation of a database of 48 songs. Standard information retrieval performance measures are used in the comparison, and it is shown that the timbre-related feature performs best.
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Jensen, K. Multiple Scale Music Segmentation Using Rhythm, Timbre, and Harmony. EURASIP J. Adv. Signal Process. 2007, 073205 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1155/2007/73205
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