Title
Selective Sampling for Beat Tracking Evaluation
Abstract
In this paper, we propose a method that can identify challenging music samples for beat tracking without ground truth. Our method, motivated by the machine learning method “selective sampling,” is based on the measurement of mutual agreement between beat sequences. In calculating this mutual agreement we show the critical influence of different evaluation measures. Using our approach we demonstrate how to compile a new evaluation dataset comprised of difficult excerpts for beat tracking and examine this difficulty in the context of perceptual and musical properties. Based on tag analysis we indicate the musical properties where future advances in beat tracking research would be most profitable and where beat tracking is too difficult to be attempted. Finally, we demonstrate how our mutual agreement method can be used to improve beat tracking accuracy on large music collections.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/TASL.2012.2205244
IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech & Language Processing
Keywords
DocType
Volume
evaluation,accuracy,music,correlation,histograms,learning artificial intelligence,estimation
Journal
20
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
9
1558-7916
22
PageRank 
References 
Authors
1.26
15
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Andre Holzapfel117518.24
Matthew E. P. Davies216016.24
José R. Zapata31127.57
João Lobato Oliveira4856.80
Fabien Gouyon51038.54