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Effects of Audio Compression on Chord Recognition

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Feature analysis of audio compression is necessary to achieve high accuracy in musical content recognition and content-based music information retrieval (MIR). Bit rate differences are expected to adversely affect musical content analysis and content-based MIR results because the frequency response might be changed by the encoding. In this paper, we specifically examine its effect on the chroma vector, which is a commonly used feature vector for music signal processing. We analyze sound qualities extracted from encoded music files with different bit rates and compare them with the chroma features of original songs obtained using datasets for chord recognition.

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Uemura, A., Ishikura, K., Katto, J. (2014). Effects of Audio Compression on Chord Recognition. In: Gurrin, C., Hopfgartner, F., Hurst, W., Johansen, H., Lee, H., O’Connor, N. (eds) MultiMedia Modeling. MMM 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8326. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04117-9_34

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