Deep Learning for Music Classification

At Soundtrack Your Brand we face the challenge of having to build a state-of-the-art music recommendation system, whilst not having much interactive usage data to work with. So what does it mean to build machine-learning models that only have audio to learn from? And what are the characteristics that set music apart from other audio data like speech?

• Music has additional characteristics compared to other audio that can be utilised
• There is a lot of interesting overlap between the physics of sound and music theory
• Several layers of embeddings can limit the need for high-quality labeled data

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Tobias Duin – Senior Machine Learning Engineer | Soundtrack Your Brand

Tobias has been in the Data Science and AI industry for 7 years, where he has worked with a variety of topics like real-time bidding and financial forecasting. His role ranged from product manager to working with the nitty gritty details of the algorithms. Right now he is combining deep-learning with his passion for music at Soundtrack Your Brand.