Music Genres and DSP

[BigMomma]

Hi!

I am currently investigating DSP techniques for my final-year
university project.
I want to create a program that uses an artificial neural network in
order to classify music genres.
Unfortunately, I have no prior experience with DSP. I was wondering if
anyone here could point me in the right direction.
I am particularly interested in DSP techniques that can be used to
extract features of music which are "informative" in terms of genre
classification.
The only thing I can think of is BPM and dominant frequency
extraction.

Any help, comments or links for further reading would be greatly
appreciated.

Thank you!

[Martin Eisenberg]

BigMomma wrote:

> I am particularly interested in DSP techniques that can be used
> to extract features of music which are "informative" in terms of
> genre classification.

Here's some conferences whose online proceedings will provide entry
points and further references.

http://smcnetwork.org/conferences
http://www.google.com/search?num=50&q=dafx+proceedings


Martin

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