Semi-Automatic Mono-to-Stereo Upmixing via Separation of Note Events

Delgado Castro A, Szymanski J. Semi-Automatic Mono-to-Stereo Upmixing via Separation of Note Events. In: AES Conference: 2019 AES International Conference on Immersive and Interactive Audio. Audio Engineering Society; 2019.pp. 12:1-9. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=20410

@inproceedings{DelgadoCastro2019_20410,
  author = {Delgado Castro, Alejandro and Szymanski, John},
  title = {{Semi-Automatic Mono-to-Stereo Upmixing via Separation of Note Events}},
  booktitle = {AES Conference: 2019 AES International Conference on Immersive and Interactive Audio},
  pages = {12:1-9},
  year = {2019},
  month = mar,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {}
}

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AB  - A novel method for upmixing mono recordings into stereo is presented. This approach uses a source separation strategy to extract a note events from within the original mono mixture, which are clustered into individual sources by exploiting a user-interactive interface. The isolated sources can then be panned in different parts of the stereo image to create a wider spatial experience in the final version. In this work, quality of the stereo sound is evaluated by conducting a listening test, and results are compared with a similar process based on a different separation strategy. The proposed system is shown to be able to deliver stereo versions with higher audio quality and naturalness, suitable for music containing harmonic instruments or singing voices.
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