In plain words: It learns instrument sounds from isolated single notes, altered to mimic real music, then is tuned on full mixes to name the main instrument. On commercial recordings it scored 0.674 at picking the right instrument, 10.9% better than the previous best end-to-end system.
Abstract · Exploring Isolated Musical Notes as Pre-training Data for Predominant Instrument Recognition in Polyphonic Music
With the growing amount of musical data available, automatic instrument recognition, one of the essential problems in Music Information Retrieval (MIR), is drawing more and more attention. While automatic recognition of single instruments has been well-studied, it remains challenging for polyphonic, multi-instrument musical recordings. This work presents our efforts toward building a robust end-to-end instrument recognition system for polyphonic multi-instrument music. We train our model using a pre-training and fine-tuning approach: we use a large amount of monophonic musical data for pre-training and subsequently fine-tune the model for the polyphonic ensemble. In pre-training, we apply data augmentation techniques to alleviate the domain gap between monophonic musical data and real-world music. We evaluate our method on the IRMAS testing data, a polyphonic musical dataset comprising professionally-produced commercial music recordings. Experimental results show that our best model achieves a micro F1-score of 0.674 and an LRAP of 0.814, meaning 10.9% and 8.9% relative improvement compared with the previous state-of-the-art end-to-end approach. Also, we are able to build a lightweight model, achieving competitive performance with only 519K trainable parameters.
Lifan Zhong, Erica Cooper, Junichi Yamagishi, Nobuaki Minematsu
arXiv:2306.08850 · cs.SD, eess.AS · submitted Jun 15, 2023
abstract · pdf · html · Submitted to APSIPA 2023