Popular music is often composed of an accompaniment and a lead component, the latter
typically consisting of vocals. Filtering such mixtures to extract one or both components has …

Source separation techniques like independent component analysis and the more recent
non-negative matrix factorization are gaining widespread use for the monaural separation of …

This paper describes a system that can automatically synchronize polyphonic musical audio
signals with their corresponding lyrics. Although methods for synchronizing monophonic …

Vibrato is a slightly tremulous effect imparted to vocal or instrumental tone for added warmth
and expressiveness through slight variation in pitch. It corresponds to a periodic fluctuation …

This paper describes a system that can automatically synchronize between polyphonic
musical audio signals and corresponding lyrics. Although there were methods that can …

For more than a decade, music information science and musicology have been at what
Nicholas Cook has described as a'moment of opportunity'for collaboration on database …

Automatically detecting the presence of singing in music audio recordings is a central task
within music information retrieval. While modern machine-learning systems produce high …

Retrieving audio material based on audio queries is an important and challenging issue in
the research field of content-based access to popular music. As part of this research field, we …

We present a feature generation system designed to create audio features for supervised
classification tasks. The main contribution to feature generation studies is the notion of …

Automatic lyrics-to-audio alignment techniques have been drawing attention in the last years
and various studies have been made in this field. The objective of lyrics-to-audio alignment …