AUTUMN : a general pitch-extraction wave-to-MIDI transcription system

Abstract

Automatic Music Transcription is an area of active research at the intersection of Computer Science and Music, of interest for both theoretical and practical applications. We propose two Wave-to-MIDI transcription systems: Basic AUTUMN and V-AUTUMN. Both systems achieve their goal by performing window-by-window frequency-domain pitch extraction. Minimal assumptions are made on the content of the input signal. Results show that Basic AUTUMN and V-AUTUMN succeed at detecting a considerable number of notes; V-AUTUMN additionally minimises false detections.

Date of Award	2005
Original language	English
Awarding Institution	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology