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Pitch Estimation for the Separation of Musical Sounds

Authors: Rosier, Julie; Grenier, Yves

AES Convention 112 · Paper 5528 · April 2002

Abstract

We present a pitch estimation method for the separation of musical sounds. From a sinusoid plus autoregressive noise model of the composite signal, we successively estimate the fundamental frequencies using the Minimum Description Length principle or Rissanen Criterion. Equivalent to a penalized log-likelihood, this criterion also allows to detect the onset and offset of each sound. The detection is based upon the likelihood gap between the estimate model and a simple autoregressive model. Several simulations for single or multiple musical sounds are performed to illustrate the effectiveness of the method.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 112
AES Convention
112
Paper number
5528
Publication date
April 6, 2002
Session subject
Musical Acoustics
Affiliation
ENST, Dept TSI, Paris, France (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper