Musical genre classification of audio signals

@article{Tzanetakis2002MusicalGC,
  title={Musical genre classification of audio signals},
  author={George Tzanetakis and Perry R. Cook},
  journal={IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Process.},
  year={2002},
  volume={10},
  pages={293-302}
}
Musical genres are categorical labels created by humans to characterize pieces of music. [] Key Method The performance and relative importance of the proposed features is investigated by training statistical pattern recognition classifiers using real-world audio collections. Both whole file and real-time frame-based classification schemes are described. Using the proposed feature sets, classification of 61% for ten musical genres is achieved. This result is comparable to results reported for human musical…
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