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 …

This textbook provides both profound technological knowledge and a comprehensive
treatment of essential topics in music processing and music information retrieval. Including …

In this paper, we present a fast, simple and effective method to separate the harmonic and
percussive parts of a monaural audio signal. The technique involves the use of median …

In recent years, methods to decompose an audio signal into a harmonic and a percussive
component have received a lot of interest and are frequently applied as a processing step in …

This paper presents new algorithms of independent component analysis (ICA) for super-
Gaussian sources based on auxiliary function technique. The algorithms consist of two …

A major problem in time-scale modification (TSM) of music signals is that percussive
transients are often perceptually degraded. To prevent this degradation, some TSM …

As many acoustic signal processing methods, for example for source separation or noise
canceling, operate in the magnitude spectrogram domain, the problem of reconstructing a …

The contribution of this paper is threefold: First, we propose modifications to Fluctuation
Patterns [14]. The resulting descriptors are evaluated in the task of rhythm similarity …

Estimation of melody line in homophonic music audio signals is a challenging subject of
study. Some of the difficulties are derived from presence of accompanying components. To …

Monaural musical sound separation has been extensively studied recently. An important
problem in separation of pitched musical sounds is the estimation of time-frequency regions …