Large-Scale MIDI-based Composer Classification

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2010.14805v1
• Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2020 08:07:55 GMT
• Title: Large-Scale MIDI-based Composer Classification
• Abstract summary: We propose large-scale MIDI based composer classification systems using GiantMIDI-Piano. We are the first to investigate the composer classification problem with up to 100 composers. Our system achieves a 10-composer and a 100-composer classification accuracies of 0.648 and 0.385.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Music classification is a task to classify a music piece into labels such as genres or composers. We propose large-scale MIDI based composer classification systems using GiantMIDI-Piano, a transcription-based dataset. We propose to use piano rolls, onset rolls, and velocity rolls as input representations and use deep neural networks as classifiers. To our knowledge, we are the first to investigate the composer classification problem with up to 100 composers. By using convolutional recurrent neural networks as models, our MIDI based composer classification system achieves a 10-composer and a 100-composer classification accuracies of 0.648 and 0.385 (evaluated on 30-second clips) and 0.739 and 0.489 (evaluated on music pieces), respectively. Our MIDI based composer system outperforms several audio-based baseline classification systems, indicating the effectiveness of using compact MIDI representations for composer classification.

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