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	شناسایی ساز	تحلیل رنگ صدا
حوزه	بازیابی اطلاعات موسیقی	بازیابی اطلاعات موسیقی
خانواده	Machine learning	Machine learning
سال پیدایش	2005	1977
پدیدآور	Antti Eronen	John M. Grey
نوع	Timbre-based audio classification	Acoustic feature extraction and analysis
منبع بنیادین	Eronen, A., Peltonen, V., Tuomi, J., Klapuri, A., Fagerlund, S., Sorsa, T., & Lorho, G. (2005). Audio-based context recognition. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 14(1), 321-329.	Grey, J. M. (1977). Multidimensional perceptual scaling of musical timbres. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 61(5), 1270-1277.
نام‌های دیگر	instrument classification, timbre identification, instrument detection	tone color analysis, spectral characterization, timbre descriptor extraction
مرتبط	5	5
خلاصه	Instrument recognition is the task of automatically identifying which musical instruments are present in an audio recording. Formalized by Eronen et al. (2005), it addresses timbre—the tonal quality distinguishing one instrument from another. Instrument recognition is essential for music analysis, transcription, automatic indexing, and music education. It remains challenging in polyphonic contexts but has achieved good accuracy in solo and sparse accompaniment scenarios.	Timbre analysis is the computational characterization and modeling of tone color—the perceived quality that distinguishes one instrument from another even at the same pitch and loudness. Pioneered by Grey (1977), timbre analysis extracts acoustic descriptors that characterize spectral shape, temporal dynamics, and harmonic content. It underlies instrument identification, music similarity assessment, and audio retrieval. Unlike melody and rhythm, timbre is high-dimensional and context-dependent, making it one of the most challenging aspects of music analysis.