ccmusic-database/CTIS

Dataset Card for Chinese Traditional Instrument Sound

The original dataset is sourced from the Chinese Traditional Instrument Sound, which contains recordings from over 200 types of Chinese traditional instruments, modified Chinese musical instruments, and instruments from ethnic minority groups. Notably, some of these instruments are rarely encountered by the majority of the Chinese populace.

Based on the aforementioned original dataset, after data processing, we have constructed the default subset of the current integrated version of the dataset, and its data structure can be viewed in the viewer. As the dataset has been cited and used in published articles, the step of further constructing the eval subset for evaluation has been omitted. This dataset is intended for retrieval tasks, hence no further splits have been made, and currently, there is only one split, which is the trainset.

Viewer

https://www.modelscope.cn/datasets/ccmusic-database/CTIS/dataPeview

Dataset Structure

audio	mel	label (200+class)	cname (string)
.wav, 44100Hz	.jpg, 44100Hz	C0090/ C0091/ ... T0323	大笒/ 高音横笛/ ... 都它尔
...	...	...	...

Maintenance

git clone git@hf.co:datasets/ccmusic-database/CTIS
cd CTIS

Dataset Summary

During the integration, we first performed data cleaning to remove recordings with no specific instrument labels. The filtered dataset comprises recordings of 200 types of Chinese traditional musical instruments, totaling 3,974 audio clips. On average, there are approximately 20 audio clips per instrument. The data structure of the integrated dataset consists of three columns: an audio column containing audio files in .wav format, all sampled at a uniform rate of 22,050 Hz, a label column with 200 categories corresponding to the Chinese pinyin of the instrument names, and an additional column for the Chinese instrument names. This integrated dataset can be utilized for tasks such as Chinese instrument recognition or instrument acoustic analysis.

Supported Tasks and Leaderboards

MIR, audio classification

Languages

Chinese, English

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

dataset = load_dataset("ccmusic-database/CTIS", split="train")
for item in dataset:
    print(item)

Data Instances

.zip(.wav), .csv

Data Fields

Up to 287 kinds of Chinese traditional musical instruments, improved Chinese musical instruments and Chinese ethnic musical instruments

Data Splits

instruments, percussion

Dataset Creation

Curation Rationale

Lack of a dataset for Chinese traditional musical instruments

Source Data

Initial Data Collection and Normalization

Zhaorui Liu, Monan Zhou

Who are the source language producers?

Students from CCMUSIC

Annotations

Annotation process

Building a high-quality musical sound database requires consideration on every aspect of the criteria in terms of the recording environment, performer, sample content, annotation standard and quality of recording and performing.

Who are the annotators?

Students from CCMUSIC

Personal and Sensitive Information

None

Considerations for Using the Data

Social Impact of Dataset

Advancing the Digitization Process of Traditional Chinese Instruments

Discussion of Biases

Only for Traditional Chinese Instruments

Other Known Limitations

Sample imbalance

Additional Information

Dataset Curators

Zijin Li

Evaluation

[1] 李子晋, 韩宝强. 中国传统乐器音响数据库构建研究[J]. 中国音乐学, 2020(02):92-102+2.
[2] Liang X, Li Z, Liu J, et al. Constructing a multimedia Chinese musical instrument database[C]//Proceedings of the 6th Conference on Sound and Music Technology (CSMT). Springer, Singapore, 2019: 53-60.
[3] Li Z, Liang X, Liu J, et al. DCMI: A Database of Chinese Musical Instruments[J].

Citation Information

@dataset{zhaorui_liu_2021_5676893,
  author       = {Monan Zhou, Shenyang Xu, Zhaorui Liu, Zhaowen Wang, Feng Yu, Wei Li and Baoqiang Han},
  title        = {CCMusic: an Open and Diverse Database for Chinese and General Music Information Retrieval Research},
  month        = {mar},
  year         = {2024},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace},
  version      = {1.2},
  url          = {https://huggingface.co/ccmusic-database}
}

Contributions

Provide a dataset for Chinese Traditional Instrument Sounds