Matti Ryynänen Department of Signal Processing, Tampere University of Technology E-mail: matti.p.ryynanen <AT> gmail.com Worked in the Audio Research Group as a researcher and as a post-graduate student March 2002 - January 2009, obtaining Dr. Tech. in January 2009. My research focused on automatic music-content analysis and, especially, on the automatic transcription of music and its applications. This work was funded by Tampere Graduate School in Information Science and Engineering (TISE). For current activities, see here.

Research

Automatic transcription of polyphonic music

• Automatic transcription of melody, bass line, and chords in polyphonic music (added 2008). Example page.

• Automatic bass line transcription from streaming polyphonic audio (added 9/2006). Example page.

• Automatic transcription of the singing melody in polyphonic music (added 4/2006). Example page includes input/output sound files with automatically generated score images.

• Polyphonic music transcription using note event modeling (added 4/2005). Example page includes transcription examples from real-world music, produced by a polyphonic music transcription method.

• Monophonic singing transcription (added 5/2004). Example page contains demonstrations of automatic singing transcription, including input and output sound files.

Applications based on automatic music transcription

• Accompaniment separation and karaoke application based on automatic melody transcription (added 3/2008). Example page.

• Query by humming (QBH) of MIDI and audio (added 12/2007). Example page.

Publications

BibTeX entries of the publications.

PhD Thesis

• M. Ryynänen, "Automatic Transcription of Pitch Content in Music and Selected Applications," Tampere University of Technology, December 2008. The introduction part of the thesis pdf. Please find the included publications below.

Book chapters

• M. P. Ryynänen, "Singing transcription," in Signal processing methods for music transcription (A. Klapuri and M. Davy, eds.), Springer, 2006.

Journal articles

• M. P. Ryynänen and A. P. Klapuri, "Automatic Transcription of Melody, Bass Line, and Chords in Polyphonic Music," in Computer Music Journal, 32:3, Fall 2008. pdf, example page.

Conference papers

• T. Virtanen, A. Mesaros, and M. Ryynänen, "Combining Pitch-Based Inference and Non-Negative Spectrogram Factorization in Separating Vocals from Polyphonic Music," in Proc. ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Statistical and Perceptual Audition (SAPA'08), Brisbane, Australia, September 2008. pdf, example page.

• M. Ryynänen, T. Virtanen, J. Paulus, and A. Klapuri, "Accompaniment Separation and Karaoke Application Based on Automatic Melody Transcription," in Proc. 2008 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME'08), Hannover, Germany, June 2008. pdf (*), example page.

• M. Ryynänen and A. Klapuri, "Query by Humming of MIDI and Audio Using Locality Sensitive Hashing," in Proc. 2008 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP'08), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, April 2008. pdf (*), example page. The method was evaluated in the international MIREX 2008 "Query by Singing/Humming" evaluation (results page).

• M. Ryynänen and A. Klapuri, "Automatic Bass Line Transcription from Streaming Polyphonic Audio," in Proc. 2007 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP'07), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, April 2007. pdf (*), example page.

• M. Ryynänen and A. Klapuri, "Transcription of the Singing Melody in Polyphonic Music," in Proc. 7th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR'06), Victoria, Canada, October 2006. pdf, example page. The method was evaluated in the international MIREX 2006 Audio Melody Extraction evaluation (results page).

• M. P. Ryynänen and A. Klapuri, "Polyphonic Music Transcription Using Note Event Modeling," in Proc. IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA'05), New Paltz, New York, USA, October 2005. pdf (*), example page. The method obtained highest scores in the international MIREX 2007 and 2008 "Multiple Fundamental Frequency Estimation & Tracking" evaluations (results 2007), (results 2008).

• M. P. Ryynänen and A. P. Klapuri, "Modelling of Note Events for Singing Transcription," in Proc. ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Statistical and Perceptual Audio Processing (SAPA'04), Jeju, Korea, October 2004. pdf, example page

Patent applications

• M. Ryynänen, T. Virtanen, J. Paulus, and A. Klapuri, "Method for processing melody," Finnish patent application no. 20075737, filed October 2007.

Master's thesis

• M. Ryynänen, "Probabilistic Modelling of Note Events in the Transcription of Monophonic Melodies," Master's thesis, Tampere University of Technology, March 2004. pdf

Other

• M. Ryynänen and A. Klapuri, "Note event modeling for audio melody extraction," extended abstract in the online Proc. the 6th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR 2005), London, UK, September 2005. The abstract can be found from the results page for the MIREX 2005 evaluations.

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Education

Doctor of Science (Technology), January 2009. Tampere University of Technology, Faculty of Computing and Electrical Engineering, Department of Signal Processing.

Master of Science (with distinction), March 2004.
Tampere University of Technology, Department of Information Technology. Major subject: signal processing, speech and audio. Secondary subjects: software engineering, applied mathematics.

Matriculation examination, spring 1999, Kuopion Yhteiskoulun musiikkilukio.

Last modified: Feb 17 2010