Audio Chord Estimation
Description
This task requires participants to extract or transcribe a sequence of chords from an audio music recording. For many applications in music information retrieval, extracting the harmonic structure of an audio track is very desirable, for example for segmenting pieces into characteristic segments, for finding similar pieces, or for semantic analysis of music.
The extraction of the harmonic structure requires the detection of as many chords as possible in a piece. That includes the characterisation of chords with a key and type as well as a chronological order with onset and duration of the chords.
Although some publications are available on this topic [1,2,3,4,5], comparison of the results is difficult, because different measures are used to assess the performance. To overcome this problem an accurately defined methodology is needed. This includes a repertory of the findable chords, a defined test set along with ground truth and unambiguous calculation rules to measure the performance.
Participation in previous years
| Year | Participating Algorithms | URL | |
| Task1 | Task2 | ||
| 2009 | 13 | 5 | https://www.music-ir.org/mirex/wiki/2009:Audio_Chord_Detection_Results |
| 2008 | 8 | 7 | https://www.music-ir.org/mirex/wiki/2008:Audio_Chord_Detection_Results |
