Conference proceeding
Analyzing the Perceptual Salience of Audio Features for Musical Emotion Recognition
FROM SOUNDS TO MUSIC AND EMOTIONS, v 7900
01 Jan 2013
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Abstract
While the organization of music in terms of emotional affect is a natural process for humans, quantifying it empirically proves to be a very difficult task. Consequently, no acoustic feature (or combination thereof) has emerged as the optimal representation for musical emotion recognition. Due to the subjective nature of emotion, determining whether an acoustic feature domain is informative requires evaluation by human subjects. In this work, we seek to perceptually evaluate two of the most commonly used features in music information retrieval: mel-frequency cepstral coefficients and chroma. Furthermore, to identify emotion-informative feature domains, we explore which musical features are most relevant in determining emotion perceptually, and which acoustic feature domains are most variant or invariant to those changes. Finally, given our collected perceptual data, we conduct an extensive computational experiment for emotion prediction accuracy on a large number of acoustic feature domains, investigating pairwise prediction both in the context of a general corpus as well as in the context of a corpus that is constrained to contain only specific musical feature transformations.
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- Title
- Analyzing the Perceptual Salience of Audio Features for Musical Emotion Recognition
- Creators
- Erik M. Schmidt - Drexel UniversityMatthew Prockup - Drexel UniversityJeffrey Scott - Drexel UniversityBrian Dolhansky - University of PennsylvaniaBrandon G. Morton - Drexel UniversityYoungmoo E. Kim - Drexel University
- Contributors
- M Aramaki (Editor)M Barthet (Editor)R KronlandMartinet (Editor)S Ystad (Editor)
- Publication Details
- FROM SOUNDS TO MUSIC AND EMOTIONS, v 7900
- Series
- Lecture Notes in Computer Science
- Publisher
- Springer Nature
- Number of pages
- 23
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000329815600015
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-84885071831
- Other Identifier
- 991019170558504721
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- Collaboration types
- Domestic collaboration
- Web of Science research areas
- Computer Science, Information Systems
- Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
- Computer Science, Theory & Methods
- Music