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3.2.1 Current Trends A nearest neighbor (NN) classifier is used to predict the per-
former of new recordings. Trend models acquired in the
We have generated trend models for both duration and en- training stage, as described in the previous section, are used
ergy descriptors. Note durations are calculated as the num- as class patterns, i.e. each trained performer is considered a
ber of samples between pitch changes. Qualitative devia- different solution class. When a new recording is presented
tions are calculated by comparing the real and the average to the system, the feature extraction process is performed
duration for each note. Then, the trend model for the dura- and its trend model is created. This trend model is compared
tion descriptor was calculated from the frequency distribu- with the previously acquired models. The classifier outputs
tions of each IR pattern. Figure 2 shows, for the duration a ranked list of performer candidates where distances de-
descriptor, the frequency distributions of the eight shapes termine the order, with 1 being the most likely performer
in P patterns (ascending or descending sequences of simi- relative to the results of the training phase.
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