关键词: 旋律提取, 音高轮廓, 音高显著性的连续性, 动态时间规整, 倍频错误

Abstract: Aiming at the problem that the discontinuity of the pitch sequence of the same sound source was caused by the interference of different sound sources in polyphonic music which reduced the accuracy of pitch estimation, an improved pitch contour creation and selection algorithm for melody extraction was proposed. Firstly, a method based on auditory streaming cues and the continuity of pitch salience was proposed to create pitch contour by calculating the pitch salience of each point in the time-frequency spectrum. In order to further select the melody pitch contour, the non-melodic pitch contours were removed according to the repetitive characteristics of the accompaniment, and dynamic time warping algorithm was used to calculate the similarity between the melodic and non-melodic pitch contours. Finally, the octave errors in the melodic pitch contours was detected based on the long term relationship of the adjacent pitch contours. Simulation experiments on the data set ORCHSET show that the pitch estimation accuracy and the overall accuracy of the proposed algorithm are improved by 2.86% and 3.32% respectively compared with the oringinal algorithm, which can effectively solve the pitch estimation problem.

Key words: melody extraction, pitch contour, continuity of pitch salience, Dynamic Time Warping (DTW), octave error