Evaluation and combination of pitch estimation methods for melody extraction in symphonic classical music
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- dc.contributor.author Bosch, Juan J.ca
- dc.contributor.author Marxer Piñón, Ricardca
- dc.contributor.author Gómez Gutiérrez, Emilia, 1975-ca
- dc.date.accessioned 2016-06-29T10:15:14Z
- dc.date.issued 2016ca
- dc.description.abstract The extraction of pitch information is arguably one of the most important tasks in automatic music description systems. However, previous research and evaluation datasets dealing with pitch estimation focused on relatively limited kinds of musical data. This work aims to broaden this scope by addressing symphonic western classical music recordings, focusing on pitch estimation for melody extraction. This material is characterized by a high number of overlapping sources, and by the fact that the melody may be played by different instrumental sections, often alternating within an excerpt. We evaluate the performance of eleven state-of-the-art pitch salience functions, multipitch estimation and melody extraction algorithms when determining the sequence of pitches corresponding to the main melody in a varied set of pieces. An important contribution of the present study is the proposed evaluation framework, including the annotation methodology, generated dataset and evaluation metrics. The results show that the assumptions made by certain methods hold better than others when dealing with this type of music signal, leading to a better performance. Additionally, we propose a simple method for combining the output of several algorithms, with promising results.
- dc.description.sponsorship This work is supported by the European Union Seventh Framework Programme FP7 / 2007-2013 through the PHENICX project (grant agreement no. 601166). This work is also (partly) supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness/nunder the Maria de Maeztu Units of Excellence Programme (MDM-2015-0502).
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- dc.identifier.citation Bosch JJ, Marxer R, Gómez E. Evaluation and combination of pitch estimation methods for melody extraction in symphonic classical music. Journal of New Music Research. 2016;45(2):101-17. DOI: 10.1080/09298215.2016.1182191ca
- dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09298215.2016.1182191
- dc.identifier.issn 0929-8215ca
- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/26985
- dc.language.iso engca
- dc.publisher Taylor & Francis (Routledge)ca
- dc.relation.ispartof Journal of New Music Research. 2016;45(2):101-17
- dc.relation.isreferencedby http://mtg.upf.edu/download/datasets/orchset
- dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/601166ca
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- dc.subject.keyword Melody extraction
- dc.subject.keyword Music information retrieval
- dc.subject.keyword Music analysis
- dc.subject.keyword Evaluation
- dc.subject.keyword Symphonic music
- dc.subject.keyword Perception
- dc.title Evaluation and combination of pitch estimation methods for melody extraction in symphonic classical musicca
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