Audio Melody Extraction Based on Timbral Similarity of Melodic Fragments
Matija Marolt · 2005
The presented study deals with extraction of melodic line(s) from polyphonic audio recordings. Our approach is based on finding significant melodic fragments throughout the analyzed piece of music and clustering these fragments according to their timbral similarity. Fragments within clusters are taken to represent fragments belonging to different melodic lines. Holes between significant fragments within each cluster are filled-in by a shortest-path approach over all melodic fragments. The paper presents our study in more detail and provides results on real recordings