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files/proceedings/2009/308.pdf

Abstract:

This paper proposes a pattern classification approach to de- tecting the pitches of multiple simultaneous sounds. In or- der to deal with the octave ambiguity in pitch estimation, a statistical classifier is trained which observes the value of a detection function both at the position of a candidate pitch period and at its integer multiples and submultiples, in order to decide whether the candidate period should be accepted or rejected. The method improved significantly over a refer- ence method in simulations.