Multi-Modal Music Information Retrieval: Augmenting Audio-Analysis with Visual Computing for Improved Music Video Analysis

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2002.00251v1
• Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2020 17:57:14 GMT
• Title: Multi-Modal Music Information Retrieval: Augmenting Audio-Analysis with Visual Computing for Improved Music Video Analysis
• Authors: Alexander Schindler
• Abstract summary: This thesis combines audio-analysis with computer vision to approach Music Information Retrieval (MIR) tasks from a multi-modal perspective. The main hypothesis of this work is based on the observation that certain expressive categories such as genre or theme can be recognized on the basis of the visual content alone. The experiments are conducted for three MIR tasks Artist Identification, Music Genre Classification and Cross-Genre Classification.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: This thesis combines audio-analysis with computer vision to approach Music Information Retrieval (MIR) tasks from a multi-modal perspective. This thesis focuses on the information provided by the visual layer of music videos and how it can be harnessed to augment and improve tasks of the MIR research domain. The main hypothesis of this work is based on the observation that certain expressive categories such as genre or theme can be recognized on the basis of the visual content alone, without the sound being heard. This leads to the hypothesis that there exists a visual language that is used to express mood or genre. In a further consequence it can be concluded that this visual information is music related and thus should be beneficial for the corresponding MIR tasks such as music genre classification or mood recognition. A series of comprehensive experiments and evaluations are conducted which are focused on the extraction of visual information and its application in different MIR tasks. A custom dataset is created, suitable to develop and test visual features which are able to represent music related information. Evaluations range from low-level visual features to high-level concepts retrieved by means of Deep Convolutional Neural Networks. Additionally, new visual features are introduced capturing rhythmic visual patterns. In all of these experiments the audio-based results serve as benchmark for the visual and audio-visual approaches. The experiments are conducted for three MIR tasks Artist Identification, Music Genre Classification and Cross-Genre Classification. Experiments show that an audio-visual approach harnessing high-level semantic information gained from visual concept detection, outperforms audio-only genre-classification accuracy by 16.43%.

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