Date of Award
5-2018
Document Type
Thesis open access
Department
Computer Science
First Advisor
Matthew Hibbs
Abstract
There have been several attempts to classify music with content-based machine learning approaches. Most of these projects followed a similar procedure with a Deep Belief Network. In this project, we examined the performance of convolutional neural networks (CNN) and recurrent neural networks (RNN) as well as other components of a classification architecture, such as the choice of dataset, pre-processing techniques, and the sample size. Under a controlled environment, we discovered that the most successful architecture was a Mel-spectrogram combined with a CNN. Although our results fell behind the state-of-the-art performance, we outperform other music classification studies that use a CNN by a large margin. By performing binary classification, we also discovered individuality across genres that caused inconsistent performance.
Recommended Citation
Yang, Jingqing, "Music Genre Classification With Neural Networks: An Examination Of Several Impactful Variables" (2018). Computer Science Honors Theses. 44.
https://digitalcommons.trinity.edu/compsci_honors/44