README.md

HPSS (Harmonic/Percussive Sound Separation)

About

This software separates a music audio signal (monaural PCM (.wav) format) to two components, "harmonic" and "percussive."

The codes in this repository were used in the experiments of the following paper. [IEEE Xplore]

@article{tachibana2014hpss,
  author={Hideyuki Tachibana and Nobutaka Ono and Hirokazu Kameoka and Shigeki Sagayama},
  journal={IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing},
  title={Harmonic/Percussive Sound Separation Based on Anisotropic Smoothness of Spectrograms},
  year={2014},
  volume={22},
  number={12},
  pages={2059-2073},
}

LICENSE

• MIT
• For academic use, please cite the paper above.

Directory

• src: source codes
• scripts: scripts

How to use (on UNIX-like systems)

Libraries

Install boost and fftw3 as follows,

# apt
sudo apt-get install libboost-dev libfftw3-dev

# yum
sudo yum install boost-devel fftw3-devel

Build

cd your_working_directory
git clone https://github.com/tachi-hi/HPSS
cd HPSS/src; make; cd -

Then two programs HPSS_separation and HPSS_smoothness_eval will be generated.

Note that the codes are not refactored sufficiently yet.

• The help message of HPSS_smoothness_eval may not help you.

Known bugs (to be fixed)

This program accepts only the monaural (1ch) wav files. If you apply the program to a stereo wav file, it will emit the segmentation fault and halt.

Other Resources

Other HPSS Implementation

Sliding version

Another implementation of HPSS is availabel below. Note that the algorithm used in the program below is not identical to the one described in the paper above (and the codes in this repository).

https://github.com/tachi-hi/slidingHPSS

Windows GUI version (not available now)

GUI version (not coded by me) is was available below. Note that the algorithm used in the program below is not identical to the one described in the paper above (and the codes in this repository).

• http://hil.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/pages/downloads.html ... link expired

Audacity

see http://ismir2015.uma.es/LBD/LBD16.pdf

librosa

librosa, a audio processing module for python, also contains a module named hpss, though the algorithm is different from the one described in the above paper.

Links to other softwares used in the above paper

• OpenBliSSART
• BSS EVAL