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Cover Song Identification with Timbral Shape Sequences

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Tralie, CJ; Bendich, P
Published in: 16th International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR)
October 1, 2015

We introduce a novel low level feature for identifying cover songs which quantifies the relative changes in the smoothed frequency spectrum of a song. Our key insight is that a sliding window representation of a chunk of audio can be viewed as a time-ordered point cloud in high dimensions. For corresponding chunks of audio between different versions of the same song, these point clouds are approximately rotated, translated, and scaled copies of each other. If we treat MFCC embeddings as point clouds and cast the problem as a relative shape sequence, we are able to correctly identify 42/80 cover songs in the "Covers 80" dataset. By contrast, all other work to date on cover songs exclusively relies on matching note sequences from Chroma derived features.

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16th International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR)

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October 1, 2015

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38 / 44
 

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Tralie, C. J., & Bendich, P. (2015). Cover Song Identification with Timbral Shape Sequences. In 16th International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) (pp. 38–44).
Tralie, C. J., and P. Bendich. “Cover Song Identification with Timbral Shape Sequences.” In 16th International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), 38–44, 2015.
Tralie CJ, Bendich P. Cover Song Identification with Timbral Shape Sequences. In: 16th International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR). 2015. p. 38–44.
Tralie, C. J., and P. Bendich. “Cover Song Identification with Timbral Shape Sequences.” 16th International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), 2015, pp. 38–44.
Tralie CJ, Bendich P. Cover Song Identification with Timbral Shape Sequences. 16th International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR). 2015. p. 38–44.

Published In

16th International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR)

Publication Date

October 1, 2015

Start / End Page

38 / 44