Improving Automatic Music Genre Classification Systems by Using Descriptive Statistical Features of Audio Signals

Abstract

Automatic music genre classification systems are vital nowadays because the traditional music genre classification process is mostly implemented without following a universal taxonomy and the traditional process for audio indexing is prone to error. Various techniques to implement an automatic music genre classification system can be found in the literature but the accuracy and efficiency of those systems are insufficient to make them useful for practical scenarios such as identifying songs by the music genre in radio broadcast monitoring systems. The main contribution of this research is to increase the accuracy and efficiency of current automatic music genre classification systems with a comprehensive analysis of correlations between the descriptive statistical features of audio signals and the music genres of songs. A greedy approach for music genre identification is also introduced to improve the accuracy and efficiency of music genre classification systems and to identify the music genre of complex songs that contain multiple music genres. The approach, proposed in this paper, reported 87.3% average accuracy for music genre classification on the GTZAN dataset over 10 music genres.