The steep rise in music downloading over CD sales has created a major shift in the music
industry away from physical media formats and towards online products and services. Music …

Separating singing voices from music accompaniment is an important task in many
applications, such as music information retrieval, lyric recognition and alignment. Music …

Monaural singing voice separation is an extremely challenging problem. While efforts in
pitch-based inference methods have led to considerable progress in voiced singing voice …

The paper considers the task of recognizing phonemes and words from a singing input by
using a phonetic hidden Markov model recognizer. The system is targeted to both …

This paper describes a public web service for active music listening, Songle, that enriches
music listening experiences by using music-understanding technologies based on signal …

Singing, the vocal productionof musical tones, is one of the most important elements of
music. Addressing the needs of real-world applications, the study of technologies related to …

Automatic lyrics transcription (ALT), which can be regarded as automatic speech recognition
(ASR) on singing voice, is an interesting and practical topic in academia and industry. ALT …

Singing pitch estimation and singing voice separation are challenging due to the presence
of music accompaniments that are often nonstationary and harmonic. Inspired by …

Lyrics-to-audio alignment is to automatically align the lyrical words with the mixed singing
audio (singing voice+ musical accompaniment). Such alignment can be achieved with an …

This paper introduces our research aimed at building" active music listening interfaces". This
research approach is intended to enrich end-users' music listening experiences by applying …