NDLI: Acoustic Chord Transcription and Key Extraction From Audio Using Key-Dependent HMMs Trained on Synthesized Audio

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Kyogu Lee Slaney, M.
Copyright Year	2006
Abstract	We describe an acoustic chord transcription system that uses symbolic data to train hidden Markov models and gives best-of-class frame-level recognition results. We avoid the extremely laborious task of human annotation of chord names and boundaries-which must be done to provide machine learning models with ground truth-by performing automatic harmony analysis on symbolic music files. In parallel, we synthesize audio from the same symbolic files and extract acoustic feature vectors which are in perfect alignment with the labels. We, therefore, generate a large set of labeled training data with a minimal amount of human labor. This allows for richer models. Thus, we build 24 key-dependent HMMs, one for each key, using the key information derived from symbolic data. Each key model defines a unique state-transition characteristic and helps avoid confusions seen in the observation vector. Given acoustic input, we identify a musical key by choosing a key model with the maximum likelihood, and we obtain the chord sequence from the optimal state path of the corresponding key model, both of which are returned by a Viterbi decoder. This not only increases the chord recognition accuracy, but also gives key information. Experimental results show the models trained on synthesized data perform very well on real recordings, even though the labels automatically generated from symbolic data are not 100% accurate. We also demonstrate the robustness of the tonal centroid feature, which outperforms the conventional chroma feature.
Sponsorship	IEEE Signal Processing Society
Starting Page	291
Ending Page	301
Page Count	11
File Size	848561
File Format	PDF
ISSN	15587916
Volume Number	16
Issue Number	2
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2008-02-01
Publisher Place	U.S.A.
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Hidden Markov models Data mining Humans Machine learning Performance analysis Feature extraction Training data Viterbi algorithm Maximum likelihood decoding Robustness symbolic music files Acoustic chord transcription hidden Markov model (HMM) key-dependent models key extraction
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Acoustics and Ultrasonics Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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