Improvement of Audio Feature Extraction Techniques in Traditional Indian

Musical Instrument
By: Kohshelan
Abstract. Traditional Indian musical instrument is one of the oldest musical
instruments in the world. The musical instruments have their own importance in the
field of music. Traditional Indian musical instrument could be categorized into three
types such as stringed instruments, percussion instruments and wind-blown
instruments. However, this paper will focus on string instruments because its show
fluctuating behavior due to noise. Therefore, three techniques are selected based on
the frequently used by previous researches which show some shortcoming while
extracting noisy signal. The three techniques are Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficient
(MFCC), Linear Predictive Coding (LPC) and Zero-Crossing Rate (ZCR). Hence,
this research attempts to improve the feature extracting techniques by integrating
Zero Forcing Equalizer (ZFE) with those extraction techniques. Three classifiers that
are k-Nearest Neighbor (kNN), Bayesian Network (BNs) and Support Vector
Machine (SVM) are used to evaluate the performance of audio classification
accuracy. The proposed technique shows better classification accuracy when dealing
with noisy signal.
Keywords: Traditional Indian music, Zero Forcing Equalizer, Feature Extraction &
Classification