Title
A Music Information Retrieval Approach Based on Power Laws
Abstract
We present a music information retrieval approach based on power laws. Research in cognitive science and neuroscience reveals connections between power laws, human cognition, and human physiology. Empirical studies also demonstrate connections between power laws and human aesthetics. We utilize 250+ power-law metrics to extract statistical proportions of music-theoretic and other attributes of music pieces. We discuss an experiment where artificial neural networks classify 2,000 music pieces, based on aesthetic preferences of human listeners, with 90. 70% accuracy. Also, we present audio results from a music information retrieval experiment, in which a music search engine prototype retrieves music based on "aesthetic" similarity from a corpus of 15,200+ pieces. These results suggest that power-law metrics are a promising model of music aesthetics, as they may be capturing statistical properties of the human hearing apparatus.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1109/ICTAI.2007.170
Tools with Artificial Intelligence, 2007. ICTAI 2007. 19th IEEE International Conference
Keywords
Field
DocType
information retrieval,music,neural nets,search engines,aesthetic similarity,artificial neural networks,human aesthetics,music information retrieval approach,music pieces,music search engine,power laws,statistical proportions
Music information retrieval,Computer science,Human physiology,Artificial intelligence,Hearing apparatus,Pop music automation,Artificial neural network,Cognition,Machine learning,Empirical research
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
2
1082-3409
978-0-7695-3015-4
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.40
19
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Patrick Roos130.40
Bill Manaris220421.81