Learning to Recognize Musical Genre from Audio, Challenge Overview

Michaël Defferrard, Sharada P. Mohanty, Sean F. Carroll, Marcel Salathé
The Web Conference, 2018

We here summarize our experience running a challenge with open data for musical genre recognition. Those notes motivate the task and the challenge design, show some statistics about the submissions, and present the results.

@inproceedings{fma_challenge,
  title = {Learning to Recognize Musical Genre from Audio},
  subtitle = {Challenge Overview},
  author = {Defferrard, Micha\"el and Mohanty, Sharada P. and Carroll, Sean F. and Salath\'e, Marcel},
  booktitle = {The 2018 Web Conference Companion},
  year = {2018},
  publisher = {ACM Press},
  isbn = {9781450356404},
  doi = {10.1145/3184558.3192310},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  eprint = {1803.05337},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.05337},
}

Resources

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Related: slides, data, code, crowdAI challenge, TheWebConf track.

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