Automatic sound recognition (ASR) has attracted increased and wide ranging interests in
recent years. In this paper, we carry out a review of some important contributions in ASR …

This paper builds on the technique of feature extraction from the spectrogram image of
sound signals for automatic sound recognition. The spectrogram image is divided into …

Instrumental music is often classified or retrieved in terms of instruments played in it. With a
large database consists of Chinese traditional music and western classical music, this paper …

AN OVERVIEW OF THE MAIN INSTRUMENT SAMPLE libraries used in psychoacoustics,
sound analysis, and instrument classification research is presented. One of the central …

With the fast booming of online music repositories, there is a need for content-based
automatic indexing which will help users to find their favorite music objects in real time …

Recognition and separation of sounds played by various instruments is very useful in
labeling audio files with semantic information. This is a non-trivial task requiring sound …

The chapter presents first the main issues related to music information retrieval (MIR)
domain. Within this domain, there exists a variety of approaches to musical instrument …

Higher order statistics in signal processing plays very important role to extract additional
information from signals than second order statistics. This paper used higher order spectra …

Classification of musical instrument is resulted from musicology. Thus, automatic
identification of instrument families not only benefits the study in musicology, but also worth …

With the fast booming of online music repositories, there are increasing needs for content-
based Automatic Indexing to help users find their favorite music objects. Melody matching …