Vocal detection in music with support vector machines

Mathieu Ramona, G. Richard, B. David

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Abstract

We propose a statistical learning approach for the automatic detection of vocal regions in a polyphonic musical signal. A support vector model, based on a large feature set, is employed to discriminate accompanied singing voice from pure instrumental regions. We propose a temporal smoothing of the posterior probabilities with a hidden Markov model that helps adapting the segmentation sequence to the precision of the manual annotation. Quantitative results on a copyright-free public musical corpus show a classification accuracy of 82%.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2008 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP
Pages1885-1888
Number of pages4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 16 Sept 2008
Externally publishedYes
Event2008 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP - Las Vegas, NV, United States
Duration: 31 Mar 20084 Apr 2008

Publication series

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

Conference

Conference2008 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityLas Vegas, NV
Period31/03/084/04/08

Keywords

  • Hidden Markov Models
  • Support Vector Machines
  • Vocal detection

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