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We present a comparative evaluation of automatic classification of a sound database containing more than six hundred drum sounds (kick, snare, hihat, toms and cymbals). A preliminary set of fifty descriptors has been refined with the help of different techniques and some final reduced sets including around twenty features have been selected as the most relevant. We have then tested different classification techniques (instance-based, statistical-based, and tree-based) using ten-fold cross-validation. Three levels of taxonomic classification have been tested: membranes versus plates (super-category level), kick vs. snare vs. hihat vs. toms vs. cymbals (basic level), and some basic classes (kick and snare) plus some sub-classes -i.e. ride, crash, open-hihat, closed hihat, high-tom, medium-tom, low-tom- (sub-category level). Very high hit-rates have been achieved (99%, 97%, and 90% respectively) with several of the tested techniques.
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Herrera, P., Yeterian, A., Gouyon, F. (2002). Automatic Classification of Drum Sounds: A Comparison of Feature Selection Methods and Classification Techniques. In: Anagnostopoulou, C., Ferrand, M., Smaill, A. (eds) Music and Artificial Intelligence. ICMAI 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2445. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45722-4_8
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