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A cognitive method for melody stream transcription

  • Heilongjiang University

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Abstract

This paper describes a method for analyzing tonality and transcribing melody stream automatically. Tonality plays the core part in organizing music structure. By making an investigation into cognition and musicology, we propose an approach to transcribe major component of polyphonic music from the point of view of tonality. Our method focuses on music cognition instead of signal processing. Basing on our former work on key/chord recognition, we introduce a cognitive feature called auditory saliency, which contains both statistic modeled information about human's acoustic attention and psychology measured data on human's musical perception, to recognize the melody stream. Constant Q Transform(CQT) and a temporal ANN are also used in our framework. Our proposed method has been tested objectively (F-measure of pitch detection is 0.63) and subjectively (around 90% of segments are accepted), and shows some inspiring results.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCCIS 2014 - Proceedings of 2014 IEEE 3rd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Intelligence Systems
EditorsHuadong Ma, Weining Wang, Yong Zhang
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages614-618
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781479947201
DOIs
StatePublished - 2014
Event3rd IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing and Intelligence Systems, CCIS 2014 - Shenzhen, China
Duration: 27 Nov 201429 Nov 2014

Publication series

NameCCIS 2014 - Proceedings of 2014 IEEE 3rd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Intelligence Systems

Conference

Conference3rd IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing and Intelligence Systems, CCIS 2014
Country/TerritoryChina
CityShenzhen
Period27/11/1429/11/14

Keywords

  • Auditory saliency
  • melody stream transcription
  • music cognition
  • tonal analysis

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