| Paper ID | MLSP-23.1 |
| Paper Title |
SINGER IDENTIFICATION USING DEEP TIMBRE FEATURE LEARNING WITH KNN-NET |
| Authors |
Xulong Zhang, Jiale Qian, Fudan University, China; Yi Yu, National Institute of Informatics, Japan; Yifu Sun, Wei Li, Fudan University, China |
| Session | MLSP-23: Applications in Music and Audio Processing |
| Location | Gather.Town |
| Session Time: | Wednesday, 09 June, 16:30 - 17:15 |
| Presentation Time: | Wednesday, 09 June, 16:30 - 17:15 |
| Presentation |
Poster
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| Topic |
Machine Learning for Signal Processing: [MLR-MUSAP] Applications in music and audio processing |
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| Abstract |
In this paper, we study the issue of automatic singer identification (SID) in popular music recordings, which aims to recognize who sang a given piece of song. The main challenge for this investigation lies in the fact that a singer's singing voice changes and intertwines with the signal of background accompaniment in time domain. To handle this challenge, we propose the KNN-Net for SID, which is a deep neural network model with the goal of learning local timbre feature representation from the mixture of singer voice and background music. Unlike other deep neural networks using the softmax layer as the output layer, we instead utilize the KNN as a more interpretable layer to output target singer labels. Moreover, attention mechanism is first introduced to highlight crucial timbre features for SID. Experiments on the existing artist20 dataset show that the proposed approach outperforms the state-of-the-art method by 4%. We also create singer32 and singer60 datasets consisting of Chinese pop music to evaluate the reliability of the proposed method. The more extensive experiments additionally indicate that our proposed model achieves a significant performance improvement compared to the state-of-the-art methods. |
