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This study uses Genetic Programming (GP) in developing a classifier to distinguish between five musical instruments. Using only simple arithmetic and boolean operators with 95 features as terminals, a program is developed that can classify 300 unseen samples with an accuracy of 94%. The experiment is then run again using only 14 of the most often chosen features. Limiting the features in this way raised the best classification to 94.3% and the average accuracy from 68.2% to 75.67%. This demonstrates that not only can GP be used to create a classifier but it can be used to determine the best features to choose for accurate musical instrument classification, giving an insight into timbre.
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Loughran, R., Walker, J., O’Neill, M., McDermott, J. (2012). Genetic Programming for Musical Sound Analysis. In: Machado, P., Romero, J., Carballal, A. (eds) Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design. EvoMUSART 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7247. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29142-5_16
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