Indian Classical Music Recognition using Deep Convolution Neural Network

Abstract

A divine approach to communicate feelings about the world occurs through music. There is a huge variety in the language of music. One of the principal variables of Indian social legacy is classical music. Hindustani and Carnatic are the two primary subgenres of Indian classical music. Models have been trained and taught to distinguish between Carnatic and Hindustani songs. This paper presents Indian classical music recognition based on multiple acoustic features (MAF) consisting of various statistical, spectral, and time domain features. The MAF provides the changes in intonation, timbre, prosody and pitch of the musical speech due to different ragas. The lightweight DCNN is used to improve the representation of the raga sound and to provide higher order abstract level features. The overall performance of the raga type is estimated using various performance metrics, including accuracy, precision, recall and F1-score. The proposed DCNN achieves an accuracy, precision, recall, and F1-score of 89.38%, 0.89, 0.89, and 0.89, respectively, for eight raga classifications. The extensive experimentation on eight classical ragas has shown a noteworthy improvement over the traditional state of art.