Fundamental frequency estimation for music signals with modified Hilbert-Huang transform (HHT)

In this work, we propose a modified Hilbert-Huang transform (HHT) method to detect low pitch musical signals within a short analysis temporal window for real-time fundamental frequency estimation. HHT is a non-linear method which is suitable for the analysis of non-stationary AM/FM like data. However, to apply HHT directly to music signals encounters several problems. Here, we modify HHT so that it can be tailored to the short-window pitch analysis. It is shown by experimental results that the proposed HHT method performs significantly better than several benchmark schemes.