Zapata González, José RicardoDavies, Matthew E. P.Gómez Gutiérrez, Emilia, 1975-2023-04-272023-04-272014Zapata JR, Davies MEP, Gómez E. Multi-feature beat tracking. IEEE Trans Audio Speech Lang Process. 2014;22(4):816-25. DOI: 10.1109/TASLP.2014.23052521558-7916http://hdl.handle.net/10230/56586A recent trend in the field of beat tracking for musical audio signals has been to explore techniques for measuring the level of agreement and disagreement between a committee of beat tracking algorithms. By using beat tracking evaluation methods to compare all pairwise combinations of beat tracker outputs, it has been shown that selecting the beat tracker which most agrees with the remainder of the committee, on a song-by-song basis, leads to improved performance which surpasses the accuracy of any individual beat tracker used on its own. In this paper we extend this idea towards presenting a single, standalone beat tracking solution which can exploit the benefit of mutual agreement without the need to run multiple separate beat tracking algorithms. In contrast to existing work, we re-cast the problem as one of selecting between the beat outputs resulting from a single beat tracking model with multiple, diverse input features. Through extended evaluation on a large annotated database, we show that our multi-feature beat tracker can outperform the state of the art, and thereby demonstrate that there is sufficient diversity in input features for beat tracking, without the need for multiple tracking models.application/pdfeng© 2014 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TASLP.2014.2305252info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TASLP.2014.2305252beat trackingevaluationmusic information retrievalmusic signal processinginfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess