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Polyphonic Piano Transcription Based on Spectral Separation

Authors: Canadas-Quesada, Francisco Jesus; Carabias-Orti, Julio Jose; Mata-Campos, Raul; Ruiz-Reyes, Nicolas; Vera-Candeas, Pedro

AES Convention 124 · Paper 7384 · May 2008

Abstract

We propose a discriminative model for polyphonic piano transcription. Spectral features are obtained individually for each note. To solve the overlapping partial problem, we apply spectral separation by estimating the spectral envelope for each note. For classifying purposes, support vector machines (SVM) are trained on the spectral energy inferred from these spectral features. We apply a scheme of one-versus-all (OVA) SVM classifiers to discriminate frame-level note instances. To decrease the high frequency notes residual energy due to the downward notes shared partials, a method to cancel the interferences from the downward notes to the upward notes has been developed. The classifier output is filtered with a hidden Markov model. Our approach has been tested with synthesized and real piano recordings obtaining very promising results.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 124
AES Convention
124
Paper number
7384
Publication date
May 6, 2008
Session subject
Analysis and Synthesis of Sound
Affiliation
University of Jaen (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper