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Improving the Performance of Pitch Estimators

Authors: Welburn, Stephen J.; Plumbley, Mark D.

AES Convention 128 · Paper 8033 · May 2010

Abstract

We are looking to use pitch estimators to provide an accurate high-resolution pitch track for resynthesis of musical audio. We found that current evaluation measures such as gross error rate (GER) are not suitable for algorithm selection. In this paper we examine the issues relating to evaluating pitch estimators and use these insights to improve performance of existing algorithms such as the well-known YIN pitch estimation algorithm.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 128
AES Convention
128
Paper number
8033
Publication date
May 6, 2010
Session subject
Audio Processing—Analysis and Synthesis of Sound
Affiliation
Queen Mary University of London, London, UK (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper