A Hybrid Approach to Music Recommendation: Exploiting Collaborative Music Tags and Acoustic Features
Year
2014
Season
Fall
Paper Type
Master's Thesis
College
College of Computing, Engineering & Construction
Degree Name
Master of Science in Computer and Information Sciences (MS)
Department
Computing
NACO controlled Corporate Body
University of North Florida. School of Computing
First Advisor
Dr. Ching-Hua Chuan
Second Advisor
Dr. Sherif Elfayoumy
Third Advisor
Dr. Karthikeyan Umapathy
Department Chair
Dr. Asai Asaithambi
College Dean
Dr. Mark A. Tumeo
Abstract
Recommendation systems make it easier for an individual to navigate through large datasets by recommending information relevant to the user. Companies such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Netflix, Amazon, Pandora, and others utilize these types of systems in order to increase revenue by providing personalized recommendations. Recommendation systems generally use one of the two techniques: collaborative filtering (i.e., collective intelligence) and content-based filtering.
Systems using collaborative filtering recommend items based on a community of users, their preferences, and their browsing or shopping behavior. Examples include Netflix, Amazon shopping, and Last.fm. This approach has been proven effective due to increased popularity, and its accuracy improves as its pool of users expands. However, the weakness with this approach is the Cold Start problem. It is difficult to recommend items that are either brand new or have no user activity.
Systems that use content-based filtering recommend items based on extracted information from the actual content. A popular example of this approach is Pandora Internet Radio. This approach overcomes the Cold Start problem. However, the main issue with this approach is its heavy demand on computational power. Also, the semantic meaning of an item may not be taken into account when producing recommendations.
In this thesis, a hybrid approach is proposed by utilizing the strengths of both collaborative and content-based filtering techniques. As proof-of-concept, a hybrid music recommendation system was developed and evaluated by users. The results show that this system effectively tackles the Cold Start problem and provides more variation on what is recommended.
Suggested Citation
Kaufman, Jaime C., "A Hybrid Approach to Music Recommendation: Exploiting Collaborative Music Tags and Acoustic Features" (2014). UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations. 540.
https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/etd/540
Included in
Databases and Information Systems Commons, Software Engineering Commons, Theory and Algorithms Commons