Find a concept in httpwwwmusicmcgillcaichclassesmumt611MIRag

Find a concept in http://www.music.mcgill.ca/~ich/classes/mumt611/MIR/agostiniTimbre.pdf and explain it in your own words.

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This topic is to discuss about the new MPEG7 and other new sound audio features. Here explained how to
retreive and analysis on that sounds are dicussed. There was an interesting application for automatic classification
for audio sources by musical instrutment timbre.
It has some feature extraction..

It has Classification techniques.
(i) Discriminant analysis

(ii) k-Nearest neighbours.
(iii) support vector machines.

Finally make some experiments on collection of musical instruments tones for training and testing
classifiers and evaluate the results by means of confusion matrices and overall succcess rates.