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Separating vocal elements from musical tracks is a longstanding challenge in audio signal processing. This study tackles the distinct separation of vocal components from musical spectrograms. We employ the Short Time Fourier Transform…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Adam Sorrenti

The Inaugural Music Source Restoration (MSR) Challenge targets the recovery of original, unprocessed stems from fully mixed and mastered music. Unlike conventional music source separation, MSR requires reversing complex production processes…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Xinlong Deng , Yu Xia , Jie Jiang

Given recent advances in deep music source separation, we propose a feature representation method that combines source separation with a state-of-the-art representation learning technique that is suitably repurposed for computer audition…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Gabriel Mersy , Jin Hong Kuan

Polyphonic music generation is still a challenge direction due to its correct between generating melody and harmony. Most of the previous studies used RNN-based models. However, the RNN-based models are hard to establish the relationship…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-08 Jiuyang Zhou , Hong Zhu , Xingping Wang

Music is often experienced as a progression of concurrent streams of notes, or voices. The degree to which this happens depends on the position along a voice-leading continuum, ranging from monophonic, to homophonic, to polyphonic, which…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Patrick Gray , Razvan Bunescu

Melody extraction is a vital music information retrieval task among music researchers for its potential applications in education pedagogy and the music industry. Melody extraction is a notoriously challenging task due to the presence of…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-03 Gurunath Reddy M , K. Sreenivasa Rao , Partha Pratim Das

Despite phenomenal progress in recent years, state-of-the-art music separation systems produce source estimates with significant perceptual shortcomings, such as adding extraneous noise or removing harmonics. We propose a post-processing…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Noah Schaffer , Boaz Cogan , Ethan Manilow , Max Morrison , Prem Seetharaman , Bryan Pardo

Music source separation (MSS) faces challenges due to the limited availability of correctly-labeled individual instrument tracks. With the push to acquire larger datasets to improve MSS performance, the inevitability of encountering…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-25 Junghyun Koo , Yunkee Chae , Chang-Bin Jeon , Kyogu Lee

Automatic lyrics transcription (ALT) remains a challenging task in the field of music information retrieval, despite great advances in automatic speech recognition (ASR) brought about by transformer-based architectures in recent years. One…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Jaza Syed , Ivan Meresman Higgs , Ondřej Cífka , Mark Sandler

Extracting individual elements from music mixtures is a valuable tool for music production and practice. While neural networks optimized to mask or transform mixture spectrograms into the individual source(s) have been the leading approach,…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Genís Plaja-Roglans , Yun-Ning Hung , Xavier Serra , Igor Pereira

Music source separation represents the task of extracting all the instruments from a given song. Recent breakthroughs on this challenge have gravitated around a single dataset, MUSDB, only limited to four instrument classes. Larger datasets…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Alexandru Mocanu , Benjamin Ricaud , Milos Cernak

With the recent advancements of data driven approaches using deep neural networks, music source separation has been formulated as an instrument-specific supervised problem. While existing deep learning models implicitly absorb the spatial…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-16 Darius Petermann , Minje Kim

One of the challenging problems in Music Information Retrieval is the acquisition of enough non-copyrighted audio recordings for model training and evaluation. This study compares two Transformer-based neural network models for chord…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Martyna Majchrzak , Jacek Mańdziuk

In this paper, we propose a simple yet effective method for multiple music source separation using convolutional neural networks. Stacked hourglass network, which was originally designed for human pose estimation in natural images, is…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-06-25 Sungheon Park , Taehoon Kim , Kyogu Lee , Nojun Kwak

In this work we present a method for unsupervised learning of audio representations, focused on the task of singing voice separation. We build upon a previously proposed method for learning representations of time-domain music signals with…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Stylianos Ioannis Mimilakis , Konstantinos Drossos , Gerald Schuller

This paper presents a novel supervised approach to detecting the chorus segments in popular music. Traditional approaches to this task are mostly unsupervised, with pipelines designed to target some quality that is assumed to define…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-22 Ju-Chiang Wang , Jordan B. L. Smith , Jitong Chen , Xuchen Song , Yuxuan Wang

The rise of singing voice synthesis presents critical challenges to artists and industry stakeholders over unauthorized voice usage. Unlike synthesized speech, synthesized singing voices are typically released in songs containing strong…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Yongyi Zang , You Zhang , Mojtaba Heydari , Zhiyao Duan

Source separation for music is the task of isolating contributions, or stems, from different instruments recorded individually and arranged together to form a song. Such components include voice, bass, drums and any other…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Alexandre Défossez , Nicolas Usunier , Léon Bottou , Francis Bach

This paper describes a hands-on comparison on using state-of-the-art music source separation deep neural networks (DNNs) before and after task-specific fine-tuning for separating speech content from non-speech content in broadcast audio…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-23 Martin Strauss , Jouni Paulus , Matteo Torcoli , Bernd Edler

We study the problem of stereo singing voice cancellation, a subtask of music source separation, whose goal is to estimate an instrumental background from a stereo mix. We explore how to achieve performance similar to large state-of-the-art…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Clara Borrelli , James Rae , Dogac Basaran , Matt McVicar , Mehrez Souden , Matthias Mauch