Title: Automatic detection of emotions with music files

Authors: Angelina A. Tzacheva; Dirk Schlingmann; Keith J. Bell

Addresses: Department of Informatics, University of South Carolina Upstate, Spartanburg, SC 29303, USA ' Division of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of South Carolina Upstate, Spartanburg, SC 29303, USA ' Department of Informatics, University of South Carolina Upstate, Spartanburg, SC 29303, USA

Abstract: The amount of music files available on the internet is constantly growing, as well as the access to recordings. Music is now so readily accessible in digital form that personal collections can easily exceed the practical limits of the time we have to listen to them. Today, the problem of building music recommendation systems, including systems which can automatically detect emotions with music files, is of great importance. In this work, we present a new strategy for automatic detection of emotions with musical instrument recordings. We use Thayer's model to represent emotions. We extract timbre-related acoustic features. We train and test two classifiers. Results yield good recognition accuracy.

Keywords: music information retrieval; emotion detection; timbre; automatic classification; data mining; music recommendation systems; recommender systems; digital music files; acoustic features; internet.

DOI: 10.1504/IJSNM.2012.051054

International Journal of Social Network Mining, 2012 Vol.1 No.2, pp.129 - 140

Received: 05 Aug 2011
Accepted: 03 Oct 2011
Published online: 21 Aug 2014 *

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