Indexing and matching of polyphonic songs for query-by-singing system

• Main Authors: LEUNG, Tat-Wan, NGO, Chong-wah
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2004
• Subjects: ICA; Melodic Curve; Proportional Transportation Distance; Graphics and Human Computer Interfaces; Theory and Algorithms
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/6442; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/7445/viewcontent/1027527.1027598.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This paper investigates the issues in polyphonic popular song retrieval. The problems that we consider include singing voice extraction, melodic curve representation, and database indexing. Initially, polyphonic songs are decomposed into singing voices and instruments sounds in both time and frequen...