singer identification, singing voice detection, music analysis, music classification, music retrieval, audio browsing, music database management The singer's information is essential in organizing, browsing and retrieving music collections. In this technical report, a system for automatic singer identification is developed which recognizes the singer of a song by analyzing the music signal. Mea...

Separating singing voice from music accompaniment has wide applications in areas such as automatic lyrics recognition and alignment, singer identification, and music information retrieval. Compared to the extensive studies of speech separation, singing voice separation has been little explored. We propose a system to separate singing voice from music accompaniment from monaural recordings. The ...

A spectro-temporal modulation based singing voice detection cascaded with a Viterbi based pitch tracking algorithm is proposed in this paper for singing-voice separation from monaural recordings. To detect the singing voice, the spectrotemporal modulation energy related to voice harmonics is extracted using a spectro-temporal modulation analysis framework developed for the Fourier spectrogram. ...

Detecting distinct features in modern pop music is an important problem that can have significant applications in areas such as multimedia entertainment. They can be used, for example, to give a visually coherent representation of the sound. We propose to integrate a singing voice detector with a multimedia, multi-touch game where the user has to perform simple tasks at certain key points in th...

A singing voice separation system is a hard yet popular task in the field of music information retrieval (MIR). If successfully separated, a number of algorithms can be applied to vocal melody for any possible application. In this study, we applied a pitch estimation algorithm after separating a singing voice from background music based on the implementation of REPET [1]. Then we evaluated our ...

Finding multiple occurrences of themes and patterns in music can be hampered due to polyphonic textures. This is caused by the complexity of music that weaves multiple independent lines of music together. We present and demonstrate a system, VoiSe, that is capable of isolating individual voices in both explicit and implicit polyphonic music. VoiSe is designed to work on a symbolic representatio...

Music is a powerful medium capable of eliciting a broad range of emotions. Although the relationship between language and music is well documented, relatively little is known about the effects of lyrics and the voice on the emotional processing of music and on listeners' preferences. In the present study, we investigated the effects of vocals in music on participants' perceived valence and arou...