Musical tempo estimation using noise subspace projections

Author

Alonso, Miguel ; Badeau, Roland ; David, Bertrand ; Richard, Gaël

Author_Institution

Departement de Traitement du Signal et des Images, Ecole Nat. Superieure des Telecommun., Paris, France

fYear

2003

fDate

19-22 Oct. 2003

Firstpage

95

Lastpage

98

Abstract

Tempo estimation plays a fundamental role in music analysis, especially for the automatic processing of large amounts of musical data. A novel idea to enhance the estimation of the tempo in musical pieces is described, based on a harmonic/noise decomposition. This separation of the signal into a deterministic and a stochastic part is performed by projecting the signal onto its noise subspace. Besides, the proposed algorithm shares various elements with other tempo estimation methods. On a database composed of 54 excerpts from many musical genres, our algorithm scored a success rate of 96%.

Keywords

acoustic noise; audio signal processing; harmonic analysis; music; parameter estimation; random noise; audio signal processing; deterministic part; harmonic decomposition; harmonic/noise decomposition; music analysis; musical tempo estimation; noise subspace projections; stochastic part; Databases; Frequency estimation; Image analysis; Instruments; Machine assisted indexing; Multiple signal classification; Rhythm; Signal analysis; Signal processing; Stochastic resonance;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics, 2003 IEEE Workshop on.

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7850-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ASPAA.2003.1285828

Filename

1285828