Talk:Audio Genre

Genre problems are of great importance to music retrieval, because queries on genre are quite popular. Progresses in genre classification will enhance approaches in real retrieval problems.

I like the idea of hierarchical genre categorization, and multiple labels. We should not be content with good performance on simple questions. I would like to see how "bad" the systems will be in harder problems. However, to evaluate harder problems, a good set of data is the key. Besides copyright issues, we need people (probably music librarians) to annotate and organize a reliable corpus.