Violin Artist Identification by Analyzing Raga-vistaram Audio

Sammanfattning: With the inception of music streaming and media content delivery platforms, there has been a tremendous increase in the music available on the internet and the metadata associated with it. In this study, we address the problem of violin artist identification, which tries to classify the performing artist based on the learned features. Even though numerous previous works studied the problem in detail and developed features and deep learning models that can be used, an interesting fact was that most studies focused on artist identification in western popular music and less on Indian classical music. For the same reason, there was no standardized dataset for this purpose. Hence, we curated a new dataset consisting of audio recordings from 6 renowned South Indian Carnatic violin artists. In this study, we explore the use of log-Mel-spectrogram feature and the embeddings generated by a pre-learned VGGish network on a Convolutional Neural Network and Convolutional Recurrent Neural Network Model. From the experiments, we observe that the Convolutional Recurrent Neural Network model trained using the log-Mel-spectrogram feature gave the optimal performance with a classification accuracy of 71.70%.