Multi-pitch estimation

  • Authors:
  • Mads Grísbøll Christensen;Petre Stoica;Andreas Jakobsson;Søren Holdt Jensen

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Electronic Systems, Aalborg University, Niels Jernes Vej 12, DK-9220 Aalborg, Denmark;Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University, P.O. Box 337, SE-751 05 Uppsala, Sweden;Department of Electrical Engineering, Karlstad University, Universitetsgatan 2, SE-651 88 Karlstad, Sweden;Department of Electronic Systems, Aalborg University, Niels Jernes Vej 12, DK-9220 Aalborg, Denmark

  • Venue:
  • Signal Processing
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

In this paper, we formulate the multi-pitch estimation problem and propose a number of methods to estimate the set of fundamental frequencies. The proposed methods, based on the nonlinear least-squares (NLS), MUltiple SIgnal Classification (MUSIC) and the Capon principles, estimate the multiple fundamental frequencies via a number of one-dimensional searches. We also propose an iterative method based on the Expectation Maximization (EM) algorithm. The statistical properties of the methods are evaluated via Monte Carlo simulations for both the single- and multi-pitch cases.