Musical instrument classification using higher order spectra

Abstract

This paper presents classification and recognition of monophonic isolated musical instrument sounds using higher order spectra such as Bispectrum and Trispectrum. Experimental results on a widely used dataset shows that higher order spectra based features improve the recognition accuracy, when combined with conventional features such as Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficient (MFCC), Cepstral, Spectral and Temporal features. Nineteen western musical instruments covering four families with full pitch range have been used for experimentation.