Learning Features of Music From ScratchDownload PDF

Published: 06 Feb 2017, Last Modified: 05 May 2023ICLR 2017 PosterReaders: Everyone
Abstract: This paper introduces a new large-scale music dataset, MusicNet, to serve as a source of supervision and evaluation of machine learning methods for music research. MusicNet consists of hundreds of freely-licensed classical music recordings by 10 composers, written for 11 instruments, together with instrument/note annotations resulting in over 1 million temporal labels on 34 hours of chamber music performances under various studio and microphone conditions. The paper defines a multi-label classification task to predict notes in musical recordings, along with an evaluation protocol, and benchmarks several machine learning architectures for this task: i) learning from spectrogram features; ii) end-to-end learning with a neural net; iii) end-to-end learning with a convolutional neural net. These experiments show that end-to-end models trained for note prediction learn frequency selective filters as a low-level representation of audio.
TL;DR: We introduce a new large-scale music dataset, define a multi-label classification task, and benchmark machine learning architectures on this task.
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