Title
Novel principal component analysis-based feature selection mechanism for classroom sound classification
Abstract
Machine learning algorithms for sound classification can be supported by multiple temporal, spectral, and perceptual features extracted from the sound signal. The number of features affects the classification accuracy but also the computational resources requested, so the number of features has to be carefully selected. In this work, we propose a methodology for feature selection based on the principal component analysis. The case study has been the classification of classroom sounds during face-to-face module delivery and six sound types have been defined. The proposed method is applied upon a set of 143 sound features to produce feature ranking. The ranking results are compared with those provided by the Relief-F. Then the selected features are used by five classification algorithms, Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA), Quadratic Support Vector Machine (QSVM), k Nearest Neighbors, Boosted Trees, and Random Forest. The algorithms are executed with increasing number of features, from 1 to 143, considering both feature rankings, creating 1430 models. The performance of the classification algorithms increases rapidly with the number of features with LDA, QSVM, and Boosted Trees outperforming other methods and surpassing the accuracy ratio of 90% with 25 features.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1111/coin.12468
COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Boosted Trees, feature selection, PCA, Relief-F, sound classification, QSVM
Journal
37
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
4
0824-7935
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Eleni Tsalera100.34
Andreas E. Papadakis200.34
Maria Samarakou311413.19