arrow
Return

Classification-based melody transcription

delete2006-05-08
delete30
delete
OA
AI
D
Daniel P. W. Ellis *
G
Graham E. Poliner
DOI:10.1007/s10994-006-8373-9delete
deleteOriginal
deleteOriginal request for help
deleteShare
deleteSave
Abstract

Abstract

En 中文
The melody of a musical piece-informally, the part you would hum along with-is a useful and compact summary of a full audio recording. The extraction of melodic content has practical applications ranging from content-based audio retrieval to the analysis of musical structure. Whereas previous systems generate transcriptions based on a model of the harmonic (or periodic) structure of musical pitches, we present a classification-based system for performing automatic melody transcription that makes no assumptions beyond what is learned from its training data. We evaluate the success of our algorithm by predicting the melody of the ADC 2004 Melody Competition evaluation set, and we show that a simple frame-level note classifier, temporally smoothed by post processing with a hidden Markov model, produces results comparable to state of the art model-based transcription systems.
Keywords:
melody transcription
audio
music
support vector machine
hidden markov model
imbalanced data sets
multiway classification

Journal

Machine Learning cover
Machine Learning
IF:
2.9
Papers:
2.6K
Citations:
3.4W

Organization

No organization information available