A Bottom Up Approach To Audio Source Separation

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2018-07-02

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Humans are e ortlessly able to focus their attention to a speci c sound source in noisy settings. In a wider sense, single instruments can be seen as a sound source in a song. The human brain can easily extract the melody of the guitar or the drum pattern out of the song, just by having the frequency split of the cochlea as input. This paper will investigate how well deep neural networks (DNN) are able to perform the source separation task. Therefore, the music theory will be reviewed, in order to have a realistic model of instruments. Then, current approaches to the source separation problem will be examined, with respect to their generalization capabilities on di erent data distributions over the train and test set. In the end, the network will get constrained by instrument theory and biological ndings. The results were promising for my small models, resulting in a proposition of a di erent convolutional layer for feature extraction at musical source separation.

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Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen