MIREX AUDIO CHORD DETECTION

This extended abstract briefly introduces the submission to the 2008 Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange in the Audio Chord Detection task. The chord vocabulary we are interested in includes only major and minor triads and ‘N’ for non-chord. To represent a chord for a frame, a traditional 12-dimension PCP vector is used and Hidden Markov Models are used as the classifier. The probability of the distribution of the PCP vector is modeled by a 12-dimension multivariate Gaussian. Also, the parameters of the Gaussian and the state transition matrix are learned through supervised learning. Tests were conducted on Beatles music and the result is shown.