Music genre recognition using Music information retrieval techniques

This diploma work deals with music genre recognition using the techniques of Music Information Retrieval. It contains a brief description of the principle of this research area and its subfield called Music Genre Recognition. The following chapter includes selection of the most suitable parameters for describing music genres. This work further characterizes machine learning methods used in this field of research. The next chapter deals with the descriptions of music datasets created for genre classification studies. Subsequently, there is a draft and evaluation of the system for music genre recognition. The last part of this work describes the results of partial parameter analysis, dependence of genre classification accuracy on the amount of parameters and contains a discussion on the causes of classification accurancy for the individual genres