A quantitative comparison of different approaches for melody extraction from polyphonic audio recordings

Gómez Gutiérrez, Emilia, 1975-; Streich, Sebastian; Ong, Bee Suan; Paiva, Rui Pedro; Tappert, Sven; Batke, Jan-Mark; Poliner, Graham; Ellis, Daniel P. W.; Bello, Juan Pablo

A quantitative comparison of different approaches for melody extraction from polyphonic audio recordings

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Gómez E, Streich S, Ong B, Paiva RP, Tappert S, Batke JM, Poliner G, Ellis D, Bello JP. A quantitative comparison of different approaches for melody extraction from polyphonic audio recordings. 2006. 31 p.

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This paper provides an overview of current state-of-the-art approaches for melody extraction from polyphonic audio recordings, and it proposes a methodology for the quantitative evaluation of melody extraction algorithms. We first define a general architecture for melody extraction systems and discuss the difficulties of the problem in hand; then, we review different approaches for melody extraction which represent the current state-of-the-art in this area. We propose and discuss a methodology for evaluating the different approaches, and we finally present some results and conclusions of the comparison.