Automatic chord estimation from audio: A review of the state of the art

M McVicar, R Santos-Rodríguez, Y Ni… - … /ACM Transactions on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this overview article, we review research on the task of Automatic Chord Estimation (ACE).
The major contributions from the last 14 years of research are summarized, with detailed …

[PDF][PDF] Moving beyond feature design: Deep architectures and automatic feature learning in music informatics.

EJ Humphrey, JP Bello, Y LeCun - ISMIR, 2012 - ejhumphrey.com
The short history of content-based music informatics research is dominated by hand-crafted
feature design, and our community has grown admittedly complacent with a few de facto …

Rethinking automatic chord recognition with convolutional neural networks

EJ Humphrey, JP Bello - 2012 11th International Conference on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Despite early success in automatic chord recognition, recent efforts are yielding diminishing
returns while basically iterating over the same fundamental approach. Here, we abandon …

Open-source practices for music signal processing research: Recommendations for transparent, sustainable, and reproducible audio research

B McFee, JW Kim, M Cartwright… - IEEE Signal …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the early years of music information retrieval (MIR), research problems were often
centered around conceptually simple tasks, and methods were evaluated on small …

[PDF][PDF] Chord detection using deep learning

X Zhou, A Lerch - Proceedings of the 16th ISMIR …, 2015 - musicinformatics.gatech.edu
In this paper, we utilize deep learning to learn high-level features for audio chord detection.
The learned features, obtained by a deep network in bottleneck architecture, give promising …

An end-to-end machine learning system for harmonic analysis of music

Y Ni, M McVicar, R Santos-Rodriguez… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a new system for the harmonic analysis of popular musical audio. It is focused
on chord estimation, although the proposed system additionally estimates the key sequence …

On the relative importance of individual components of chord recognition systems

T Cho, JP Bello - IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Most chord recognition systems share a common architecture comprising two main stages:
feature extraction and pattern matching, and two optional sub stages: pre-filtering and post …

[PDF][PDF] Four Timely Insights on Automatic Chord Estimation.

EJ Humphrey, JP Bello - ISMIR, 2015 - ismir2015.uma.es
Automatic chord estimation (ACE) is a hallmark research topic in content-based music
informatics, but like many other tasks, system performance appears to be converging to yet …

Learning a robust tonnetz-space transform for automatic chord recognition

EJ Humphrey, T Cho, JP Bello - 2012 IEEE International …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Temporal pitch class profiles-commonly referred to as a chromagrams-are the de facto
standard signal representation for content-based methods of musical harmonic analysis …

Analyzing chroma feature types for automated chord recognition

N Jiang, P Grosche, V Konz, M Müller - Audio Engineering Society …, 2011 - aes.org
The computer-based harmonic analysis of music recordings with the goal to automatically
extract chord labels directly from the given audio data constitutes a major task in music …