Learning to Recognize Musical Genre from Audio
arXiv:1803.05337v124 citations
Originality Synthesis-oriented
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This work addresses the problem of automated music genre classification for researchers and practitioners, but it is incremental as it focuses on summarizing a challenge rather than introducing new methods.
The authors organized a challenge for musical genre recognition using open data, detailing the task motivation, challenge design, submission statistics, and results.
We here summarize our experience running a challenge with open data for musical genre recognition. Those notes motivate the task and the challenge design, show some statistics about the submissions, and present the results.