The ability of music to induce or convey emotions ensures the importance of its role in
human life. Consequently, research on methods for identifying the high-level emotion states …

In this survey we discuss the task of hierarchical classification. The literature about this field
is scattered across very different application domains and for that reason research in one …

Music has a close relationship with people's emotion and mental status. Music
recommendation has both economic and social benefits. Unfortunately, most existing music …

Applying artificial intelligence (AI) methods for music generation has been attracting the
interest of researchers since the first days of computing. Music has self-referentiality, ie, does …

Much work is focused upon music genre recognition (MGR) from audio recordings, symbolic
data, and other modalities. While reviews have been written of some of this work before, no …

Research in automatic genre classification has been producing increasingly small
performance gains in recent years, with the result that some have suggested that such …

How is the internet transforming musical practices? In this article, through a study of five
prominent popular and cross-over music genres spanning the period from the late 1990s to …

We propose a new approach to instrument recognition in the context of real music
orchestrations ranging from solos to quartets. The strength of our approach is that it does not …

Music is present in everyday life and used for a wide range of objectives. Musical databases
have considerably increased in number and size over the past years, therefore, the …

During the last 10 years there has been a dramatic shift in how music is produced,
distributed, and consumed. A combination of advances in digital storage, audio …