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Evaluation Distance Measures Between Gaussian Mixture Models of MFCCs

Jensen, Jesper Hojvang; Ellis, Daniel P. W.; Christensen, Mads G.; Jensen, Soren Holdt

In music similarity and in the related task of genre classification, a distance measure between Gaussian mixture models is frequently needed. We present a comparison of the Kullback-Leibler distance, the earth movers distance and the normalized L2 distance for this application. Although the normalized L2 distance was slightly inferior to the Kullback-Leibler distance with respect to classification performance, it has the advantage of obeying the triangle inequality, which allows for efficient searching.

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ISMIR 2007: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval: September 23-27, 2007, Vienna, Austria
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Austrian Computer Society

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Electrical Engineering
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June 27, 2012