Automatic Audio Genre Classification Based on Support Vector Machine

Audio classification is very important in audio indexing, analysis and content-based video retrieval. In this paper, we have proposed a clip-based support vector machine (SVM) approach to classify audio signals into six classes, which are pure speech, music, silence, environmental sound, speech with music and speech with environmental sound. The classification results are then used to partition a video into homogeneous audio segments, which is used to analyze and retrieve its high-level content. The experimental results show that the proposed system not only improves classification accuracy, but also performs better than the other classification systems using the decision tree (DT), K nearest neighbor (K-NN) and neural network (NN).