Sparse Music Decomposition onto a MIDI Dictionary Driven by Statistical Music Knowledge

The general goal of music signal decomposition is to represent the music structure into a note level to provide valuable semantic features for further music analysis tasks. In this paper, we propose a new method to sparsely decompose the music signal onto a MIDI dictionary made of musical notes. Statistical music knowledge is further integrated into the whole sparse decomposition process. The proposed method is divided into a frame level sparse decomposition stage and a whole music level optimal note path searching. In the first stage note co-occurrence probabilities are embedded to generate a sparse multiple candidate graph while in the second stage note transition probabilities are incorporated into the optimal path searching. Experiments on real-world polyphonic music show that embedding music knowledge within the sparse decomposition achieves notable improvement in terms of note recognition precision and recall.