We are very pleased to announce the launch of the MELODIA - Melody Extraction vamp plug-in during the ISMIR 2012 Conference which will take place in Porto, Portugal, October 8th-12th, 2012.

This plug-in implements our melody extraction algorithm which obtained good results in last year's MIREX Audio Melody Extraction campaign. Full details of the algorithm are available in:

J. Salamon and E. Gómez, "Melody Extraction from Polyphonic Music Signals using Pitch Contour Characteristics", IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 20(6):1759-1770, Aug. 2012.

The plug-in is available online for free download (non-commercial purposes). A slightly less formal description of the algorithm, including graphs and audio examples is provided by the author Justin Salamon and can be found here.

In addition to benchmarking new algorithms against MELODIA, we hope it will serve the research community for research problems which could benefit from a predominant F0 estimator (e.g. query by humming, version identification, motif discovery and analysis, automatic transcription, source separation, etc.). We are very interested in receiving feedback from the research community, please let us know what you think!

Hope you enjoy the MELODIA experience!

MELODIA vamp plug-in website