Polyphonic Melody Extraction

Transcribing real music recordings into score is a difficult problem; one simplification is to search for only a single dominant melody line within a piece of music - such as the lead vocal in pop songs. We have been pursuing a novel classification-based approach to this task; this page links to some of our results, as well as some of the ground-truth data we have prepared in this project.

Data

We created ground-truth annotation for a range of music excerpts as part of the 2005 MIREX Audio Melody Extraction evaluation (see also the MIREX 05 Melody results). Below are two representative training sets for algorithm development.

• Zip file of the LabROSA training data created for the MIREX05 Audio Melody Extraction Competition (fixed to remove stray values below 30 Hz 2012-07-17 - thx Sam Myer)
• Zip file of the MIREX-04 Melody Test Data courtesy of the UPF MTG group.
  2010-08-22: The UPF link is not working at the moment, so we have made our own version of the data set available: adc2004_full_set.zip.

Code

LabROSAmelodyextract2005.tgz (99MB) is a gzipped tar file containing our melody extraction system as submitted to MIREX 2005. It runs on a Linux (or MacOS) system and requires both Matlab and Java.

Papers

Here are some of our publications that relate to this data:

G. Poliner, D. Ellis (2005). A Classification Approach to Melody Transcription

Proc. Int. Conf. on Music Info. Retrieval ISMIR-05, London, September 2005. (6pp)

Acknowledgment

This material is based in part upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. IIS-0238301. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recomendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation (NSF).

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Graham Poliner <graham@ee.columbia.edu>