The proliferation of MP3 players and the exploding amount of digital music content call for
novel ways of music organization and retrieval to meet the ever-increasing demand for easy …

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 …

We present a novel system for the automatic extraction of the main melody from polyphonic
music recordings. Our approach is based on the creation and characterization of pitch …

Melody extraction algorithms for single-channel polyphonic music typically rely on the
salience of the lead melodic instrument, considered here to be the singing voice. However …

This paper addresses the use of Music Information Retrieval (MIR) techniques in music
education and their integration in learning software. A general overview of systems that are …

We propose a novel singing voice enhancement technique for monaural music audio
signals, which is a quite challenging problem. Many singing voice enhancement techniques …

With the growth of acoustic data in the development of multimedia tools, mobile phones and
the Internet of Multimedia Things (IoMT), recent studies exploit different models of machine …

Facing the rapidly growing amount of digital media, the need for an effective data
management is challenging technology. In this context, we approach the problem of …

We formulate a novel extension of nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) to take into
account partial information on source-specific activity in the spectrogram. This information …

“Melody, defined as pitched sounds arranged in musical time in accordance with given
cultural conventions and constraints, represents a universal human phenomenon traceable …