A Review on Music Emotion Recognition

Devangi Doshi

Abstract: Music is a form of art and cultural activity that has an ability to make us feel in a certain way. Music Emotion Recognition is an upcoming area of research in Music Information Retrieval community. The paper describes a short review on how emotion recognition can implemented. The collection of emotion datasets along with music datasets are used to determine an emotion for a particular music piece using certain Artificial Intelligence algorithms. Representation methods for music files and emotions have been described for algorithm implementation. A case study gives an insight of suitable algorithms.

Keywords: music, emotions, artificial intelligence