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An Investigation of the Effectiveness of Phase for Audio Classification
Shunsuke Hidaka, Kohei Wakamiya, Tokihiko Kaburagi
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While log-amplitude mel-spectrogram has widely been used as the feature representation for processing speech based on deep learning, the effectiveness of another aspect of speech spectrum, i.e., phase information, was shown recently for tasks such as speech enhancement and source separation. In this study, we extensively investigated the effectiveness of including phase information of signals for eight audio classification tasks. We constructed a learnable front-end that can compute the phase and its derivatives based on a time-frequency representation with mel-like frequency axis. As a result, experimental results showed significant performance improvement for musical pitch detection, musical instrument detection, language identification, speaker identification, and birdsong detection. On the other hand, overfitting to the recording condition was observed for some tasks when the instantaneous frequency was used. The results implied that the relationship between the phase values of adjacent elements is more important than the phase itself in audio classification.
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