Separated examples by vocal ensemble separation methods using our jaCappella corpus

Tomohiko Nakamura, Shinnosuke Takamichi, Naoko Tanji (The University of Tokyo), Satoru Fukayama (AIST), Hiroshi Saruwatari (The University of Tokyo)

This is the demo page of our ICASSP 2023 paper [1]. We show separated examples by vocal ensemble separation methods using our jaCappella corpus. The project page of the corpus is here.


Mixture Voice part Ground Truth X-UMX [2] DPTNet [3] MRDLA [4]
Dongurikorokoro
(どんぐりころころ in Japanese)
Genre: bossa nova
Lead vocal
Soprano
Alto
Tenor
Bass
Vocal percussion
Hiraitahiraita
(ひらいたひらいた in Japanese)
Genre: enka
Lead vocal
Soprano
Alto
Tenor
Bass
Vocal percussion
Otamajakushi
(お玉じゃくし in Japanese)
Genre: jazz
Lead vocal
Soprano
Alto
Tenor
Bass
Vocal percussion

References

  1. Tomohiko Nakamura, Shinnosuke Takamichi, Naoko Tanji, Satoru Fukayama, and Hiroshi Saruwatari, “jaCappella corpus: A Japanese a cappella vocal ensemble corpus,” in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, June 2023.
  2. X-UMX implementation in the Asteroid source-separation toolkit. Source
  3. Saurjya Sarkar, Emmanouil Benetos, and Mark Sandler, “Vocal harmony separation using time-domain neural networks,” Proceedings of Interspeech, pp. 3515–3519, 2021. Source
  4. Tomohiko Nakamura, Shihori Kozuka, and Hiroshi Saruwatari, “Time-domain audio source separation with neural networks based on multiresolution analysis,” IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, vol. 29, pp. 1687–1701, Apr. 2021.
    [The Itakura Prize Innovative Young Researcher Award]