Ensemble of state-of-the-art methods for polyphonic music comparison

Abstract

Content-based music comparison is a task where no musical similarity measure can perform well in all possible cases. In this paper we will show that a careful combination of different similarity measures in an ensemble measure, will behave more robust than any of the included individual measures when applied as stand-alone measures. For the experiments we have used five state-of-the-art polyphonic similarity measures and three different corpora of polyphonic music.