Simultaneous Separation and Transcription of Mixtures with Multiple Polyphonic and Percussive Instruments

Ethan Manilow, Prem Seetharaman, Bryan Pardo

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Abstract

We present a single deep learning architecture that can both separate an audio recording of a musical mixture into constituent single-instrument recordings and transcribe these instruments into a human-readable format at the same time, learning a shared musical representation for both tasks. This novel architecture, which we call Cerberus, builds on the Chimera network for source separation by adding a third head for transcription. By training each head with different losses, we are able to jointly learn how to separate and transcribe up to five instruments with a single network. We show that separation and transcription are highly complementary with one another and when learned jointly, lead to Cerberus networks that are better at both separation and transcription and generalize better to unseen mixtures.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2020 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2020 - Proceedings
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages771-775
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781509066315
DOIs
StatePublished - May 2020
Event2020 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2020 - Barcelona, Spain
Duration: May 4 2020May 8 2020

Publication series

NameICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
Volume2020-May
ISSN (Print)1520-6149

Conference

Conference2020 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2020
Country/TerritorySpain
CityBarcelona
Period5/4/205/8/20

Keywords

  • computer audition
  • deep clustering
  • multitask learning
  • music transcription
  • source separation

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Signal Processing
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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