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 …

The performance of music source separation (MSS) models has been greatly improved in
recent years thanks to the development of novel neural network architectures and training …

Music transcription is the process of transforming recorded sound of musical performances
into symbolic representations such as sheet music or MIDI files. Extensive research and …

Automatic music transcription is considered by many to be a key enabling technology in
music signal processing. However, the performance of transcription systems is still …

Evaluation of music teaching is a highly subjective task often depending upon experts to
assess both the technical and artistic characteristics of performance from the audio signal …

Music performance assessment is a highly subjective task often relying on experts to gauge
both the technical and aesthetic aspects of the performance from the audio signal. This …

The automatic assessment of music performance has become an area of increasing interest
due to the growing number of technology-enhanced music learning systems. In most of …

Despite the popularity of guitar effects, there is very little existing research on classification
and parameter estimation of specific plugins or effect units from guitar recordings. In this …

Quantitative evaluation of piano performance is of interests in many fields, including music
education and computational performance rendering. Previous studies utilized features …