Cited by 132Music and Audio ProcessingMusic Technology and Sound StudiesSpeech Recognition and Synthesis

Experimenting with musically motivated convolutional neural networks

Pons, Jordi, Lidy, Thomas, Serra, Xavier·2016·2016 14th International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI)

Abstract

A common criticism of deep learning relates to the difficulty in understanding the underlying relationships that the neural networks are learning, thus behaving like a black-box. In this article we explore various architectural choices of relevance for music signals classification tasks in order to start understanding what the chosen networks are learning. We first discuss how convolutional filters with different shapes can fit specific musical concepts and based on that we propose several musically motivated architectures. These architectures are then assessed by measuring the accuracy of the deep learning model in the prediction of various music classes using a known dataset of audio recordings of ballroom music. The classes in this dataset have a strong correlation with tempo, what allows assessing if the proposed architectures are learning frequency and/or time dependencies. Additionally, a black-box model is proposed as a baseline for comparison. With these experiments we have been able to understand what some deep learning based algorithms can learn from a particular set of data.

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Authors
Pons, J., Lidy, T., & Serra, X.
Affiliations
  • Universitat Pompeu Fabra (ES)
  • TU Wien (AT)
Venue
2016 14th International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI)
Publisher
IEEE
Published
2016-06
Pages
1-6
OpenAlex
W2437181147
Cited by
132
References
20
Citations by year
2026: 4 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 9 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 8 · 2021: 22 · 2020: 23 · 2019: 20 · 2018: 15 · 2017: 21 · 2016: 1 · 2012: 1
FWCI
16.79
Type
conference paper
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI) (publishedVersion)
  • Repositori digital de la UPF (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Signal Processing › Music and Audio Processing
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Music Technology and Sound Studies
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Speech Recognition and Synthesis
Keywords
convolutional neural networks, interpretability, black-box models, ballroom music, audio classification

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