Publications

Introduction

This page lists my publications and the related audio examples. Most papers are on music signal analysis, including pitch estimation, meter analysis, timbre modeling, and auditory modeling.

Check this page for an overview of the work of our music content analysis team.

Publications

Book, theses

Klapuri, A. and Davy, M. (Editors), "Signal Processing Methods for Music Transcription," Springer-Verlag, New York, 2006. (see the table of contents and the book's web-page).
Klapuri, A. " Signal processing methods for the automatic transcription of music," Ph.D. thesis, Tampere University of Technology, Finland, April 2004. (The thesis consists of an introduction (110 pages) and six publications which are included as an appendix.)

Note: A simpler and better version of the auditory model based multiple-F0 estimator (Chapter 4 of the Ph.D thesis) is described in the journal article "Multipitch analysis of polyphonic music and speech signals using an auditory model" (see the link below).

Klapuri, A. " Automatic transcription of music," M.Sc. thesis, Tampere University of Technology, Finland, 1998.

Journal articles

Paulus, J. and Klapuri, A., "Drum sound detection in polyphonic music with hidden Markov models," EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing, 2009 (to appear).
Klapuri, A., "Representing Musical Sounds with an Interpolating State Model," IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech and Language Processing, to appear.
Paulus, J. and Klapuri, A., "Music Structure Analysis Using a Probabilistic Fitness Measure and a Greedy Search Algorithm," IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 17(6), 2009, pp. 1159-1170.
Eronen, A. and Klapuri, A., "Music Tempo Estimation with k-NN regression," IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech and Language Processing, to appear.
Ryynänen, M. and Klapuri, A., " Automatic Transcription of Melody, Bass Line, and Chords in Polyphonic Music," Computer Music Journal, 32(3), Fall 2008.
Klapuri, A., " Multipitch analysis of polyphonic music and speech signals using an auditory model," IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 16(2), pp. 255-266, Feb. 2008.
McKinney, M. F., Moelants, D., Davies, M. E. P., Klapuri, A., "Evaluation of audio beat tracking and music tempo extraction algorithms," Journal of New Music Research, 36(1), 2007, pp. 1-16.
Gouyon, F., Klapuri, A., Dixon, S., Alonso, M., Tzanetakis, G., Uhle, C., Cano, P., " An experimental comparison of audio tempo induction algorithms ," IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 14(5), 1832-1844, Sept. 2006.
Klapuri, A., Eronen, A., Astola, J., " Analysis of the meter of acoustic musical signals ," IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 14(1), 2006.
- Audio examples
- ISMIR'04 tempo induction contest
Eronen, A. Peltonen, V. Tuomi, J. Klapuri, A., Fagerlund, S., Sorsa, T., Lorho, G., Huopaniemi, J., " Audio-Based Context Recognition ," IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 14(1), 2006.
Klapuri, A., " Automatic music transcription as we know it today," (invited paper) Journal of New Music Research, Vol. 33, No. 3, pp. 269-282, Sep. 2004.
Gómez, E., Klapuri, A., Meudic, B., " Melody Description and Extraction in the Context of Music Content Processing ". Journal of New Music Research Vol.32(1), 2003.
Klapuri, A., " Multiple fundamental frequency estimation by harmonicity and spectral smoothness," IEEE Trans. Speech and Audio Processing, 11(6), 804-816, 2003.
- Audio examples
- Errata

Book chapters

Helén, M., Lahti, T., Klapuri, A., "Tools for Automatic Audio Management," in Open Information Management: Applications of Interconnectivity and Collaboration, Niiranen, S., Yli-Hietanen, J., and Lugmayr, A. (Eds.), IGI Global (to appear).
Klapuri, A., Virtanen, T., "Progress towards automatic music transcription," In Handbook of Signal Processing in Acoustics, David Havelock, Sonoko Kuwano, and Michael Vorlander (Eds.), Springer-Verlag, 2008.
Klapuri, A., "Auditory-Model Based Methods for Multiple F0 Estimation," In Klapuri, A., Davy, M. (Eds.) Signal Processing Methods for Music Transcription, Springer, New York, 2006.
Herrera-Boyer, P., Klapuri, A., Davy, M., "Automatic Classification of Pitched Musical Instrument Sounds," In Klapuri, A., Davy, M. (Eds.) Signal Processing Methods for Music Transcription, Springer, New York, 2006.
Klapuri, A. " Introduction to music transcription," In Klapuri, A., Davy, M. (Eds.) Signal Processing Methods for Music Transcription, Springer, New York, 2006.

Conference papers

Heittola, T., Klapuri, A., Virtanen, T., "Musical Instrument Recognition in Polyphonic Audio Using Source-Filter Model for Sound Separation," in Proc. 10th Int. Society for Music Information Retrieval Conf. (ISMIR 2009), Kobe, Japan, 2009.
Klapuri, A., "A method for visualizing the pitch content of polyphonic music signals," in Proc. 10th Int. Society for Music Information Retrieval Conf. (ISMIR 2009), Kobe, Japan, 2009.

Link to an example page will be provided here by October 26th, 2009.

Klapuri, A., " A classification approach to multipitch analysis," 6th Sound and Music Computing Conference, Porto, Portugal, 2009.
Paulus, J., Klapuri, A., " Music Structure Analysis Using a Probabilistic Fitness Measure And an Integrated Musicological Model," in Proc. 9th Int. Conf. on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR 2008), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, September 14-18, 2008.
Paulus, J., Klapuri, A., " Acoustic Features for Music Piece Structure Analysis," in Proc. 11th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx-08), Espoo, Finland, September 1-4, 2008.
Paulus, J, Klapuri, A., " Labelling the Structural Parts of a Music Piece with Markov Models," Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval (CMMR 2008), Copenhagen, Denmark, May 19-23, 2008.
Ryynänen, M., Virtanen, T., Paulus, J., Klapuri, A., " Accompaniment separation and karaoke application based on automatic melody transcription," IEEE International Conf. on Multimedia and Expo, Hannover, Germany, June 2008.
- Audio examples
Ryynänen, M. and Klapuri, A. " 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.
- Audio examples
Klapuri, A., " Analysis of musical instrument sounds by source-filter-decay model," IEEE International Conference on Audio, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Hawaii, USA, 2007.
Ryynänen, M., Klapuri, A., " Automatic bass line transcription from streaming polyphonic audio," IEEE International Conference on Audio, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Hawaii, USA, 2007.

Audio examples (bass line transcriptions)

Paulus, J., Klapuri, A., " Combining temporal and spectral features in HMM-based drum transcription", in Proc. of the 8th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR 2007), Vienna, Austria, September 23-27, 2007, pp. 225-228 (pdf) (presentation).
- Audio examples (bass line transcriptions)
Mesaros, A., Virtanen, T., Klapuri, A. " Singer Identification in Polyphonic Music Using Vocal Separation and Pattern Recognition Methods", International Conference on Music Information Retrieval, Vienna, Austria, 2007.
Virtanen, T., Klapuri, A., " Analysis of polyphonic audio using source-filter model and non-negative matrix factorization," in Advances in Models for Acoustic Processing, Neural Information Processing Systems Workshop, 2006 (extended abstract).
Paulus, J., Klapuri, A.," Music Structure Analysis by Finding Repeated Parts," Audio and music computing for multimedia workshop, Santa Barbara, California, Oct. 2006.
Klapuri, A., " Multiple fundamental frequency estimation by summing harmonic amplitudes," 7th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR-06), Victoria, Canada, Oct. 2006.

Audio examples (visualizing the pitch of polyphonic music signals)

Ryynänen, M., Klapuri, A., " Transcription of the Singing Melody in Polyphonic Music," in Proc. 7th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR 2006), Victoria, Canada, October 2006.

Audio examples (melody extraction)

Klapuri, A., " A perceptually motivated multiple-F0 estimation method ," in Proc. IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics", New Paltz, New York, Oct. 2005.
Ryynänen M., Klapuri A., " Polyphonic music transcription using note event modeling ," in Proc. IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics", New Paltz, New York, Oct. 2005.

Audio examples

Klapuri, A., Virtanen, T., Helén, M., " Modeling musical sounds with an interpolating state model ," in Proc. European signal processing conference, Antalya, Turkey, 2005.
Pertusa, A., Klapuri, A., and Iñesta, J.M., " Recognition of note onsets in digital music using semitone bands," Progress in Pattern Recognition, Image Analysis and Applications: 10th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition, Havana, Cuba, 2005. LNCS, Volume 3773/2005, pages 869-879. Eds. Alberto Sanfeliu, Manuel Lazo.
Ryynänen, M., Klapuri, A., " Modelling of note events for singing transcription ," in Proc. ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Statistical and Perceptual Audio Processing, October 2004.

Audio examples

Paulus J., Klapuri A., " Model-based Event Labeling in the Transcription of Percussive Audio Signals ", in Proc. 6th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx-03), London, UK, September 8-11 2003.

Audio examples

Klapuri, A. " Automatic transcription of music ," (tutorial paper) In Proc. Stockholm Music Acoustics Conference, Aug. 6-9, 2003 (SMAC 03), Stockholm, Sweden.
Klapuri, A. " Musical meter estimation and music transcription ". Paper presented at the Cambridge Music Processing Colloquium, Cambridge University, UK, 2003.
A. Eronen, J. Tuomi, A. Klapuri, S. Fagerlund, T. Sorsa, G. Lorho and J. Huopaniemi, " Audio-based Context Awareness - Acoustic Modeling and Perceptual Evaluation, " in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Audio, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Hong Kong, 2003.
Paulus, Klapuri. " Conventional and periodic N-grams in the transcription of drum sequences ". IEEE International Conferences on Multimedia and Expo, Baltimore, USA, 2003.
Paulus, Klapuri. " Measuring the similarity of rhythmic patterns ". 3rd International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), Paris, France, 2002.
Heittola, Klapuri. " Locating segments with drums in music signals ". 3rd International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), Paris, France, 2002.
- A longer version: Heittola, Klapuri. " Locating segments with drums in music signals ". Technical report, Audio Research Group, Tampere University of Technology, August 2002.
Klapuri, Astola. "Efficient calculation of a physiologically-motivated representation for sound". 14th IEEE International Conference on Digital Signal Processing, Santorini, Greece, 2002.
Peltonen, Tuomi, Klapuri, Huopaniemi, Sorsa. "Computational auditory scene recognition," IEEE International Conference on Audio, Speech and Signal Processing, Orlando, Florida, 2002.
Virtanen, Klapuri. "Separation of Harmonic Sounds Using Linear Models for the Overtone Series," IEEE International Conference on Audio, Speech and Signal Processing, Orlando, Florida, 2002.

Audio examples

Klapuri, A., Eronen, A., Seppänen, J., Virtanen, T., " Automatic transcription of music" (invited paper), Symposium on Stochastic Modeling of Music, 14th Meeting of the FWO Research Society on Foundations of Music Research, October 2001, Ghent, Belgium.
Klapuri, Virtanen, Eronen, Seppänen. (2001). " Automatic transcription of musical recordings, " Consistent & Reliable Acoustic Cues Workshop, CRAC-01, Aalborg, Denmark, September 2001.
Virtanen, Klapuri. " Separation of Harmonic Sounds Using Multipitch Analysis and Iterative Parameter Estimation ", in Proc. IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics", New Paltz, New York, 2001.
- Audio examples
Klapuri. " Means of integrating audio content analysis algorithms". 110th Audio Engineering Society Convention, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2001.
Peltonen, Eronen, Parviainen, Klapuri. "Recognition of everyday auditory scenes: potentials, latencies and cues" . 110th Audio Engineering Society Convention, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2001.
Klapuri. " Multipitch estimation and sound separation by the spectral smoothness principle," IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Salt Lake City, Utah, 2001.
Klapuri, Virtanen, Holm. " Robust multipitch estimation for the analysis and manipulation of polyphonic musical signals". In Proc. COST-G6 Conference on Digital Audio Effects, DAFx-00, Verona, Italy, 2000.
- Audio demonstrations
Sillanpää, Klapuri, Seppänen, Virtanen. " Recognition of acoustic noise mixtures by combined bottom-up and top-down processing". Proceedings of the European Signal Processing Conference EUSIPCO, 2000.
Klapuri. " Qualitative and quantitative aspects in the design of periodicity estimation algorithms". Proceedings of the European Signal Processing Conference EUSIPCO, 2000.
Virtanen, Klapuri. " Separation of Harmonic Sound Sources Using Sinusoidal Modeling". IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Istanbul, Turkey, 2000.

Audio examples

Eronen, Klapuri. " Musical Instrument Recognition Using Cepstral Coefficients and Temporal Features". IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Istanbul, Turkey, 2000.
Klapuri. " Pitch Estimation Using Multiple Independent Time-Frequency Windows". Proc. IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics, New Paltz, New York, Oct. 17-20, 1999.
Klapuri. "Wide-band Pitch Estimation for Natural Sound Sources with Inharmonicities". 106th Audio Engineering Society Convention, Munich, Germany, May 1999.
Klapuri. " Sound Onset Detection by Applying PsychoacousticKnowledge," IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Phoenix, Arizona, 1999.
Klapuri. " Number Theoretical Means of Resolving a Mixture of Several Harmonic Sounds". Proceedings of the European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Rhodes, Greece, 1998.

Other publications

Viitaniemi, Klapuri, Eronen. " A probabilistic model for the transcription of single-voice melodies ". Finnish Signal Processing Symposium, FINSIG, Tampere University of Technology, May 2003.
- Note: The "autotuning" Equations (4)-(5) for F0 estimates are erroneous in the above paper. Correction is given here.
Klapuri (editor). "Contributions to technical seminar on content analysis of music and audio". Tampere International Center for Signal Processing, TICSP Series #7, April 2000.
Klapuri, A. " Top-down content analysis of musical signals", excerpt from the M.Sc. thesis of A. Klapuri, Tampere University of Technology, 1998. Corverted to HTML for convenience.

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