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A Discriminative Model for Polyphonic Piano Transcription

EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing20062007:048317

https://doi.org/10.1155/2007/48317

©  Poliner and Ellis 2007

Received: 6 December 2005

Accepted: 29 June 2006

Published: 29 October 2006

Abstract

We present a discriminative model for polyphonic piano transcription. Support vector machines trained on spectral features are used to classify frame-level note instances. The classifier outputs are temporally constrained via hidden Markov models, and the proposed system is used to transcribe both synthesized and real piano recordings. A frame-level transcription accuracy of 68% was achieved on a newly generated test set, and direct comparisons to previous approaches are provided.

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Authors’ Affiliations

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Laboratory for Recognition and Organization of Speech and Audio, Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University

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