Using the Similarity of Main Melodies to Identify Cover Versions of Popular Songs for Music Document Retrieval

蔡偉和(Wei-Ho Tsai) ； 游弘明(Hung-Ming Yu) ； 王新民(Hsin-Min Wang)

《Journal of Information Science and Engineering》 24卷6期 (2008/11) Pp. 1669-1687

https://doi.org/10.6688/JISE.2008.24.6.4

並列摘要

Automatic extraction of information from music data is an important and challenging issue in the field of content-based music retrieval. As part of the research effort, this study presents a technique that automatically identifies cover versions of songs specified by users. The technique enables users to search for songs with an identical tune, but performed by different singers, in different languages, genres, and so on. The proposed system takes an excerpt of the song specified by the user as input, and returns a ranked list of songs similar to the input excerpt in terms of the main melody. To handle likely discrepancies, e.g., in tempo, transposition, and accompaniment, between cover versions and the original song, methods are presented to remove the non-vocal portions of the song, extract the sung notes from the accompanied vocals, and compare the similarities between the sung note sequences. Our experiments on a database of 594 cross-lingual popular songs show the feasibility of identifying cover versions of songs for music retrieval.

並列關鍵字

content-based music retrieval ； cover version ； main melody ； polyphonic ； accompaniments