Spandan Kumar Barthakur

Work place: Department of Information Technology, Gauhati University, India

E-mail: spandankumarb@gmail.com

Website: https://orcid.org/ 0009-0000-6138-2629

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Biography

Spandan Kumar Barthakur is presently working as an Assistant Professor in the department of Computer Science and Engineering, Royal Global University, Guwahati and persuing my Ph.D from Department of IT, Gauhati University, Guwahati. His research area during Ph.D is speech processing, machine learning and deep learning and previously worked on network security during M.tech in Computer Science and Engineering which he pursued from North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and Technology, Nirjuli, Arunachal Pradesh during the years 2017 till 2019. He also worked on a few web development projects during his B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering in the tenure 2012 till 2016. 

Author Articles
Hybrid Deep Learning-Based Automated Genre Classification of Assamese Regional Songs

By Spandan Kumar Barthakur Parismita Sarma Maharshi Nath Daiyaan Ahmed Hirak Jyoti Hazarika Bikash Baruah

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijem.2026.03.24, Pub. Date: 8 Jun. 2026

This work aims to preserve and promote the rich musical heritage of Assam by developing an automated classification system for Assamese regional songs using a hybrid deep learning approach. This method not only modernizes the preservation of traditional music but also enhances its accessibility to a global audience for integrating AI with cultural conservation. Five genres of Assamese songs—Bihu, Kamrupiya Lokageet, Goalporiya Lokageet, Borgeet, and Naam—are considered in this study. By leveraging Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and advanced audio feature extraction techniques such as Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCCs) and spectrograms, a hybrid model combining VGG16 and ResNet50 is developed. This fusion utilizes the strengths of both architectures, enhancing the model’s performance and accuracy. Following the process, it is observed that two distinctly different genres, Bihu and Borgeet, are accurately categorized by the proposed model, while the remaining three show slight labeling inconsistencies.

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