Instrument recognition in polyphonic music

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Abstract

We propose a method for the recognition of musical instruments in polyphonic music excerpted from commercial recordings. By exploiting some cues on the common structures of musical ensembles, we show that it is possible to recognize up to 4 instruments playing concurrently. The system associates a hierarchical classification tree with a class-pairwise feature selection technique and Gaussian Mixture Models to discriminate possible combinations of instruments. Successful identification is achieved over short-time windows, enabling the system to be employed for segmentation purposes.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2005 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing,ICASSP '05 - Proceedings - Audio and ElectroacousticsSignal Processing for Communication
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages245-248
Number of pages4
ISBN (Print)0780388747, 9780780388741
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2005
Event2005 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP '05 - Philadelphia, PA, United States
Duration: 18 Mar 200523 Mar 2005

Publication series

NameICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
VolumeIII
ISSN (Print)1520-6149

Conference

Conference2005 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP '05
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityPhiladelphia, PA
Period18/03/0523/03/05

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