Combining musical features for cover detection

Comunicació presentada a: International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference celebrat de l'11 al 16 d'octubre de 2020 de manera virtual.Recent works have addressed the automatic cover detection problem from a metric learning perspective. They employ different input representations, aiming to exploit melodic or harmonic characteristics of songs and yield promising performances. In this work, we propose a comparative study of these different representations and show that systems combining melodic and harmonic features drastically outperform those relying on a single input representation. We illustrate how these features complement each other with both quantitative and qualitative analyses. We finally investigate various fusion schemes and propose methods yielding state-of-the-art performances on two publicly-available large datasets.FY is supported by the MIP-Frontiers project, the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 765068, and EG by TROMPA, the Horizon 2020 project 770376-2