Selective sampling for beat tracking evaluation

In this paper, we propose a method that can identify challenging music samples for beat tracking without ground truth. Our method, motivated by the machine learning method “selective sampling,” is based on the measurement of mutual agreement between beat sequences. In calculating this mutual agreeme...

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Autores: Holzapfel, Andre, Davies, Matthew E. P., Zapata González, José Ricardo, Lobato Oliveira, João, Gouyon, Fabien
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2012
País:España
Institución:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
OAI Identifier:oai:recercat.cat:10230/42182
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10230/42182
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TASL.2012.2205244
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Beat tracking
Selective sampling
Evaluation
Ground truth annotation
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Sumario:In this paper, we propose a method that can identify challenging music samples for beat tracking without ground truth. Our method, motivated by the machine learning method “selective sampling,” is based on the measurement of mutual agreement between beat sequences. In calculating this mutual agreement we show the critical influence of different evaluation measures. Using our approach we demonstrate how to compile a new evaluation dataset comprised of difficult excerpts for beat tracking and examine this difficulty in the context of perceptual and musical properties. Based on tag analysis we indicate the musical properties where future advances in beat tracking research would be most profitable and where beat tracking is too difficult to be attempted. Finally, we demonstrate how our mutual agreement method can be used to improve beat tracking accuracy on large music collections.