A modeling of singing voice robust to accompaniment sounds and its application to singer identification and vocal-timbre-similarity-based music information retrieval

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 638-648

  Fujihara, Hiromasa ^a,b   Goto, Masataka ^a   Kitahara, Tetsuro ^c   Okuno, Hiroshi G ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KWANSEI GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Music information retrieval (MIR); Singer identification; Singing voice; Vocal; Vocal timbre similarity

Indexed keywords

FEATURE VECTORS; FRAME SELECTION; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODELS; HARMONIC COMPONENTS; IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS; METHOD OF MODELING; MUSIC INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MUSICAL AUDIO SIGNAL; MUSICAL PIECES; NEGATIVE INFLUENCE; SINUSOIDAL MODEL; SOUND REDUCTION; SPECTRAL ENVELOPES; SYSTEM-BASED;

COMPUTER MUSIC; ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SERVICES;

AUDIO ACOUSTICS;

EID: 76949102667     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2010.2041386     Document Type: Article

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