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Description
The text of this section is copied from the 2008 page. Please add your comments and discussions for 2009.
The aim of the MIREX audio melody extraction evaluation is to identify the melody pitch contour from polyphonic musical audio. The task consists of two parts: Voicing detection (deciding whether a particular time frame contains a "melody pitch" or not), and pitch detection (deciding the most likely melody pitch for each time frame). We structure the submission to allow these parts to be done independently, i.e. it is possible (via a negative pitch value) to guess a pitch even for frames that were being judged unvoiced. Algorithms which don't perform a discrimination between melodic and non-melodic parts are also welcome!
(The audio melody extraction evaluation will be essentially a re-run of last years contest i.e. the same test data is used.)
Discussions for 2009
Your comments here.
Dataset
- MIREX05 database : 25 phrase excerpts of 10-40 sec from the following genres: Rock, R&B, Pop, Jazz, Solo classical piano
- ISMIR04 database : 20 excerpts of about 20s each
- CD-quality (PCM, 16-bit, 44100 Hz)
- single channel (mono)
- manually annotated reference data (10 ms time grid)
Output Format
- In order to allow for generalization among potential approaches (i.e. frame size, hop size, etc), submitted algorithms should output pitch estimates, in Hz, at discrete instants in time
- so the output file successively contains the time stamp [space or tab] the corresponding frequency value roma Accuracy may be improved.
Relevant Test Collections
- For the ISMIR 2004 Audio Description Contest, the Music Technology Group of the Pompeu Fabra University assembled a diverse of audio segments and corresponding melody transcriptions including audio excerpts from such genres as Rock, R&B, Pop, Jazz, Opera, and MIDI. (full test set with the reference transcriptions (28.6 MB))
- Graham's collection: you find the test set here and further explanations on the pages http://www.ee.columbia.edu/~graham/mirex_melody/ and http://labrosa.ee.columbia.edu/projects/melody/
Potential Participants
- Vishweshwara Rao & Preeti Rao (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India)
