Pitch Oriented Automatic Singer Identification in Pop Music

In this paper, we proposed two novel methods used to distinguish the singer of a pop music. We focused on a single singer and single track case. These two methods are “Pitch Extraction” method and “1/12 OFCC” method. The Pitch Extraction method is composed of three stages and they are Singing pitch estimation stage, Exact pitch calculation stage and GMM classification stage. “1/12 OFCC” method is composed of “Pitch Feature Calculation” and GMM classification. We also compare these two methods with OFCC [1] based method. With “Pitch Extraction” and “1/12 OFCC” method, we have some improvement on works of singer identification using single feature.