Downbeat Detection with Conditional Random Fields and Deep Learned Features
Résumé
In this paper, we introduce a novel Conditional Random Field (CRF) system that detects the downbeat sequence of musical audio signals. Feature functions are computed
from four deep learned representations based on harmony,
rhythm, melody and bass content to take advantage of the
high-level and multi-faceted aspect of this task. Downbeats
being dynamic, the powerful CRF classification system allows us to combine our features with an adapted temporal
model in a fully data-driven fashion. Some meters being
under-represented in our training set, we show that data
augmentation enables a statistically significant improvement of the results by taking into account class imbalance.
An evaluation of different configurations of our system
on nine datasets shows its efficiency and potential over a
heuristic based approach and four downbeat tracking algo-
rithms.