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A Quantitative Comparison of Different Approaches for Melody Extraction from Polyphonic Audio Recordings

Title A Quantitative Comparison of Different Approaches for Melody Extraction from Polyphonic Audio Recordings
Publication Type Report
Year of Publication 2006
Authors Gómez, E. , Streich S. , Ong B. , Paiva R. P. , Tappert S. , Batke J. M. , Poliner G. , Ellis D. , & Bello J. P.
Abstract This paper provides an overview of current state-of-the-art approaches for melody extraction from polyphonic audio recordings, and it proposes a methodology for the quantitative evaluation of melody extraction algorithms. We first define a general architecture for melody extraction systems and discuss the difficulties of the problem in hand; then, we review different approaches for melody extraction which represent the current state-of-the-art in this area. We propose and discuss a methodology for evaluating the different approaches, and we finally present some results and conclusions of the comparison.
preprint/postprint document http://hdl.handle.net/10230/41912