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A Discriminative Model for Polyphonic Piano Transcription

EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing volume 2007, Article number: 048317 (2006) Cite this article

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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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  1. Laboratory for Recognition and Organization of Speech and Audio, Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY, 10027, USA

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Poliner, G.E., Ellis, D.P.W. A Discriminative Model for Polyphonic Piano Transcription. EURASIP J. Adv. Signal Process. 2007, 048317 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1155/2007/48317

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