PKSpell: Data-Driven Pitch Spelling and Key Signature Estimation
Abstract
We present PKSpell: a data-driven approach for the joint estimation of pitch spelling and key signatures from MIDI files. Both elements are fundamental for the production of a full-fledged musical score and facilitate many MIR tasks such as harmonic analysis, section identification, melodic similarity, and search in a digital music library. We design a deep recurrent neural network model that only requires information readily available in all kinds of MIDI files, including performances, or other symbolic encodings. We release a model trained on the ASAP dataset. Our system can be used with these pre-trained parameters and is easy to integrate into a MIR pipeline. We also propose a data augmentation procedure that helps retraining on small datasets. PKSpell achieves strong key signature estimation performance on a challenging dataset. Most importantly, this model establishes a new state-of-the-art performance on the MuseData pitch spelling dataset without retraining.
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@article{arxiv.2107.14009,
title = {PKSpell: Data-Driven Pitch Spelling and Key Signature Estimation},
author = {Francesco Foscarin and Nicolas Audebert and Raphaël Fournier-S'Niehotta},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.14009},
year = {2021}
}
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International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR), Nov 2021, Online, India