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In many industrial applications, signals with short periodic pulses, caused by repeated steps in the manufacturing process, are present, and their fundamental frequency or period may be of interest. Fundamental frequency estimation is in…

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In this paper, a method of pitch tracking based on variance minimization of locally periodic subsamples of an acoustic signal is presented. Replicates along the length of the periodically sampled data of the signal vector are taken and…

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Automatic estimation of piano fingering is important for understanding the computational process of music performance and applicable to performance assistance and education systems. While a natural way to formulate the quality of fingerings…

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