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Multitask Learning for Fundamental Frequency Estimation in Music

Sound 2018-09-05 v1 Machine Learning Audio and Speech Processing Machine Learning

Abstract

Fundamental frequency (f0) estimation from polyphonic music includes the tasks of multiple-f0, melody, vocal, and bass line estimation. Historically these problems have been approached separately, and only recently, using learning-based approaches. We present a multitask deep learning architecture that jointly estimates outputs for various tasks including multiple-f0, melody, vocal and bass line estimation, and is trained using a large, semi-automatically annotated dataset. We show that the multitask model outperforms its single-task counterparts, and explore the effect of various design decisions in our approach, and show that it performs better or at least competitively when compared against strong baseline methods.

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@article{arxiv.1809.00381,
  title  = {Multitask Learning for Fundamental Frequency Estimation in Music},
  author = {Rachel M. Bittner and Brian McFee and Juan P. Bello},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.00381},
  year   = {2018}
}
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