In this paper, we propose a novel area of research referred to as singing information processing. To shape the concept of this area, we first introduce singing understanding syst...
We propose a new approach for automatic melody extraction from polyphonic audio, based on Probabilistic Latent Component Analysis (PLCA). An audio signal is first divided into vo...
In this paper, we describe a novel improvisation supporting system based on correcting musically unnatural melodies. Since improvisation is the musical performance style that invo...
Melodies provide an important conceptual summarization of polyphonic audio. The extraction of melodic content has practical applications ranging from content-based audio retrieval...
Modern monaural voice and accompaniment separation systems usually consist of two main modules: melody extraction and timefrequency masking. A main distinction between different s...