icassp2022-vocal-transcription

Companion code for the paper: Sangeun Kum, Jongpil Lee, Keunhyoung Luke Kim, Taehyoung Kim, Juhan Nam "Pseudo-Label Transfer from Frame-level to Note-level in a Teacher-student Framework for Singing Transcription from Polyphonic Music", ICASSP2022, Singapore <link>

Abstract

Lack of large-scale note-level labeled data is the major obstacle to singing transcription from polyphonic music. We address the issue by using pseudo labels from vocal pitch estimation models given unlabeled data. The proposed method first converts the frame-level pseudo labels to note-level through pitch and rhythm quantization steps. Then, it further improves the label quality through self- training in a teacher-student framework.

To validate the method, we conduct various experiment settings by investigating two vocal pitch estimation models as pseudo-label generators, two setups of teacher-student frameworks, and the number of iterations in self-training. The results show that the proposed method can effectively leverage large-scale unlabeled audio data and self-training with the noisy student model helps to improve performance. Finally, we show that the model trained with only unlabeled data has comparable performance to previous works and the model trained with addi- tional labeled data achieves higher accuracy than the model trained with only labeled data.

Demo video

• <Youtube Link 1> You&I (IU)
• <Youtube Link 2> You in my arms (Myung jin Moon)

Dependencies

• OS: LINUX

• Programming language: Python 3.6+

• Python Library

  • Keras 2.7.0 (Deep Learning library)
  • tensorflow 2.5.0 (Deep Learning library)
  • Librosa 0.8.1 (for STFT)
  • pydub 0.25.1 (for loading audio and resampling)
  • pretty-midi (for handling midi data)
  • Numpy, SciPy

• Hardware

  • 1 GPU : GeForce GTX 3090

Using STP from the command line

$ python singing_transcription.py -i ../audio/test.wav  -o ../output

[optional arguments]
  -i path_audio           Path to input audio file. (default: '../audio/pop1.wav')
  -o pathsave             Path to folder for saving .mid file (default: '../output')
  -ot output_type        (optional) Output type: midi or frame-level pitch score(fps) (default: 'midi')

• output example: ADC04-pop1.wav

Citation

If you find our work useful, please consider citing our paper.

@inproceedings{kum2022pseudo,
  title={Pseudo-Label Transfer from Frame-Level to Note-Level in a Teacher-Student Framework for Singing Transcription from Polyphonic Music},
  author={Sangeun Kum, Jongpil Lee, Keunhyoung Luke Kim, Taehyoung Kim, and Juhan Nam},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
  year={2022}
}