2006 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo
Predominant Vocal Pitch Detection in Polyphonic Music
Toronto, ON, Canada
July 09-July 12
ISBN: 1-4244-0366-7
Xi Shao, Institute for Infocomm Research, 21 Heng Mui Keng Terrace, Singapore 119613; School of Computing, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117543. shaoxi@i2r.a-star.edu.sg
Changsheng Xu, Institute for Infocomm Research, 21 Heng Mui Keng Terrace, Singapore 119613. xucs@i2r.a-star.edu.sg
Mohan Kankanhalli, School of Computing, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117543. mohan@comp.nus.edu.sg
We present a novel method for predominant vocal pitch detection in two-channel polyphonic music. The proposed method contains two stages. In the first stage, we apply the Frequency Domain Independent Component Analysis (FD-ICA) for the two-channel polyphonic music to separate the vocal content from the background music. Considering the vocal singing voice and background music are two heterogeneous signals, we employ a statistical learning based method to solve the permutation inconsistency problem in FD-ICA. In the second stage, a noise insensitive vocal pitch detection method is proposed, which is robust to noise and errors introduced by the separation process in the first stage. The proposed method has been tested on the two-channel polyphonic music signals, and experimental results show promising performance.
Citation:
Xi Shao, Changsheng Xu, Mohan Kankanhalli, "Predominant Vocal Pitch Detection in Polyphonic Music," icme, pp.897-900, 2006 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, 2006