Perceptual Evaluation of Source Separation for Remixing Music

Wierstorf H, Ward D, Mason R, Grais EM, Hummersone C, Plumbley MD. Perceptual Evaluation of Source Separation for Remixing Music. In: AES Convention 143. Audio Engineering Society; 2017. Paper 9880. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=19277

@inproceedings{Wierstorf2017_19277,
  author = {Wierstorf, Hagen and Ward, Dominic and Mason, Russell and Grais, Emad M. and Hummersone, Chris and Plumbley, Mark D.},
  title = {{Perceptual Evaluation of Source Separation for Remixing Music}},
  booktitle = {AES Convention 143},
  note = {Paper 9880},
  year = {2017},
  month = oct,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=19277}
}

TY  - CPAPER
TI  - Perceptual Evaluation of Source Separation for Remixing Music
AU  - Wierstorf, Hagen
AU  - Ward, Dominic
AU  - Mason, Russell
AU  - Grais, Emad M.
AU  - Hummersone, Chris
AU  - Plumbley, Mark D.
T2  - AES Convention 143
M1  - Paper 9880
PY  - 2017
DA  - 2017/10/06
UR  - https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=19277
PB  - Audio Engineering Society
LA  - en
AB  - Music remixing is difficult when the original multitrack recording is not available. One solution is to estimate the elements of a mixture using source separation. However, existing techniques suffer from imperfect separation and perceptible artifacts on single separated sources. To investigate their influence on a remix, five state-of-the-art source separation algorithms were used to remix six songs by increasing the level of the vocals. A listening test was conducted to assess the remixes in terms of loudness balance and sound quality. The results show that some source separation algorithms are able to increase the level of the vocals by up to 6 dB at the cost of introducing a small but perceptible degradation in sound quality.
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