Finding the best matching database target to a melodic query has been of great interest in the music IR world. The string alignment paradigm works well for this task when comparin...
This paper investigates the issues in polyphonic popular song retrieval. The problems that we consider include singing voice extraction, melodic curve representation, and database...
In this paper, we propose a novel area of research referred to as singing information processing. To shape the concept of this area, we first introduce singing understanding syst...
A method is described for estimating the fundamental frequencies of several concurrent sounds in polyphonic music and multiple-speaker speech signals. The method consists of a comp...
In order to train and test algorithms that can automatically detect drum events in polyphonic music, ground truth data is needed. This paper describes a setup used for gathering m...
Koen Tanghe, Micheline Lesaffre, Sven Degroeve, Ma...