Model and Deep learning based Dynamic Range Compression Inversion

Dynamic Range Compression (DRC) is a popular audio effect used to control the dynamic range of a signal. Inverting DRC can also help to restore the original dynamics to produce new mixes and/or to improve the overall quality of the audio signal. Since, state-of-the-art DRC inversion techniques either ignore parameters or require precise parameters that are difficult to estimate, we fill the gap by combining a model-based approach with neural networks for DRC inversion. To this end, depending on the scenario, we use different neural networks to estimate DRC parameters. Then, a model-based inversion is completed to restore the original audio signal. Our experimental results show the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed method in comparison to several state-of-the-art methods, when applied on two music datasets.

DJ Mix Transcription with Multi-Pass Non-Negative Matrix Factorization

DJ mix transcription is a crucial step towards DJ mix reverse engineering, which estimates the set of parameters and audio effects applied to a set of existing tracks to produce a performative DJ mix. We introduce a new approach based on a multi-pass NMF algorithm where the dictionary matrix corresponds to a set of spectrogram slices of the source tracks present in the mix. The multi-pass strategy is motivated by the high computational cost resulting from the use of a large NMF dictionary. The proposed method uses inter-pass filtering to favor temporal continuity and sparseness and is evaluated on a publicly available dataset. Our comparative results considering a baseline method based on dynamic time warping (DTW) are promising and pave the way of future NMF-based applications.

Instantaneous Frequency Estimation In Multi-Component Signals Using Stochastic EM Algorithm

This paper addresses the problem of estimating the modes of an observed non-stationary mixture signal in the presence of an arbitrary distributed noise. A novel Bayesian model is introduced to estimate the model parameters from the spectrogram of the observed signal, by resorting to the stochastic version of the EM algorithm to avoid the computationally expensive joint parameters estimation from the posterior distribution. The proposed method is assessed through comparative experiments with state-of-the-art methods. The obtained results validate the proposed approach by highlighting an improvement of the modes estimation performance.