Abstract:This paper proposes a novel method for improving query-by-singing/humming systems by using both melody and lyric information. First, singing/humming discrimination is performed to distinguish between singing and humming queries, which is achieved by considering the similarity between acoustic models. For the humming queries, a pitch-only melody recognition method that was ranked first among the MIREX (Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange) query-by-singing/humming task submissions is applied. For the… Show more
“…The 2009 MIR-QbSH corpus was used as the first database [24]. It consists of 48 MIDI files that represent original melodies and 4431 singing and humming queries stored as wav files.…”
Abstract:With the increase in the number of music files on various devices, it can be difficult to locate a desired file, especially when the title of the song or the name of the singer is not known. We propose a new query-by-singing/humming (QbSH) system that can find music files that match what the user is singing or humming. This research is novel in the following three ways: first, the Fourier descriptor (FD) method is proposed as the first classifier; it transforms the humming or music waveform into the frequency domain. Second, quantized dynamic time warping (QDTW) using symmetrical search space and quantized linear scaling (QLS) are used as the second and third classifiers, respectively, which increase the accuracy of the QbSH system compared to the conventional DTW and LS methods. Third, five classifiers, which include the three already mentioned along with the conventional DTW using symmetrical search space and LS methods, are combined using score level fusion, which further enhances performance. Experimental results with the 2009 MIR-QbSH corpus and the AFA MIDI 100 databases show that the proposed method outperforms those using a single classifier and other fusion methods.
“…The 2009 MIR-QbSH corpus was used as the first database [24]. It consists of 48 MIDI files that represent original melodies and 4431 singing and humming queries stored as wav files.…”
Abstract:With the increase in the number of music files on various devices, it can be difficult to locate a desired file, especially when the title of the song or the name of the singer is not known. We propose a new query-by-singing/humming (QbSH) system that can find music files that match what the user is singing or humming. This research is novel in the following three ways: first, the Fourier descriptor (FD) method is proposed as the first classifier; it transforms the humming or music waveform into the frequency domain. Second, quantized dynamic time warping (QDTW) using symmetrical search space and quantized linear scaling (QLS) are used as the second and third classifiers, respectively, which increase the accuracy of the QbSH system compared to the conventional DTW and LS methods. Third, five classifiers, which include the three already mentioned along with the conventional DTW using symmetrical search space and LS methods, are combined using score level fusion, which further enhances performance. Experimental results with the 2009 MIR-QbSH corpus and the AFA MIDI 100 databases show that the proposed method outperforms those using a single classifier and other fusion methods.
“…Most prior arts that have been published are applications relating to retrieval of musical contents. For example, the query by singing/humming (QBSH) are one of the typical topics [1,2,3]. The problem of QBSH is different from that of AMMPD.…”
“…Most prior arts that have been published are applications relating to retrieval of musical contents, such as the query by singing/humming (QBSH) systems [1,2,3]. The QBSH problem is different from the AMMPD problem.…”
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