Automatic segmentation of ethnomusicological field recordings

Marolt, Matija (author), Bohak, Ciril (author), Kavčič, Alenka (author), Pesek, Matevž (author)

The article presents a method for segmentation of ethnomusicological field recordings. Field recordings are integral documents of folk music performances captured in the field, and typically contain performances, intertwined with interviews and commentaries. As these are live recordings, captured in non-ideal conditions, they usually contain significant background noise. We present a segmentation method that segments field recordings into individual units labelled as speech, solo singing, choir singing, and instrumentals. Classification is based on convolutional deep networks, and is augmented with a probabilistic approach for segmentation. We describe the dataset gathered for the task and the tools developed for gathering the reference annotations. We outline a deep network architecture based on residual modules for labelling short audio segments and compare it to the more standard feature based approaches, where an improvement in classification accuracy of over 10% was obtained. We also present the SeFiRe segmentation tool that incorporates the presented segmentation method.

• Language: English
• Keywords: audio segmentation, field recordings, deep learning, music information retrieval
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FRI - Faculty of Computer and Information Science
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2019
• Number of pages: 12 str.
• Numbering: Vol. 9, iss. 3, art. 439
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-131958
• UDC: 004:78
• ISSN on article: 2076-3417
• DOI: 10.3390/app9030439
• COBISS.SI-ID: 1538109123
• Publication date in RUL: 07.10.2021

MAROLT, Matija, BOHAK, Ciril, KAVČIČ, Alenka and PESEK, Matevž, 2019, Automatic segmentation of ethnomusicological field recordings. Applied sciences [online]. 2019. Vol. 9, no. 3,  439. [Accessed 29 April 2025]. DOI 10.3390/app9030439. Retrieved from: https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/IzpisGradiva.php?lang=eng&id=131958

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Applied sciences
• Shortened title: Appl. sci.
• Publisher: MDPI
• ISSN: 2076-3417
• COBISS.SI-ID: 522979353

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.
• Licensing start date: 01.02.2019

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: segmentacija zvočnih posnetkov, terenski posnetki, globoko učenje, pridobivanje informacij iz glasbe

Projects

• Funder: ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
• Project number: J7-9426
• Name: Misliti folkloro: folkloristične, etnološke in računske perspektive in pristopi k narečju