Onset detectors are used to recognize the beginning of musical events in audio signals. Manual parameter tuning for onset detectors is a time consuming task, while existing automated approaches often maximize only a single performance metric. These automated approaches cannot be used to optimize detector algorithms for complex scenarios, such as real-time onset detection where an optimization process must consider both detection accuracy and latency. For this reason, a flexible optimization algorithm should account for more than one performance metric in a multiobjective manner. This paper presents a generalized procedure for automated optimization of parametric onset detectors. Our procedure employs a bio-inspired evolutionary computation algorithm to replace manual parameter tuning, followed by the computation of the Pareto frontier for multi-objective optimization. The proposed approach was evaluated on all the onset detection methods of the Aubio library, using a dataset of monophonic acoustic guitar recordings. Results show that the proposed solution is effective in reducing the human effort required in the optimization process: it replaced more than two days of manual parameter tuning with 13 hours and 34 minutes of automated computation. Moreover, the resulting performance was comparable to that obtained by manual optimization.

Bio-Inspired Optimization of Parametric Onset Detectors / Stefani, Domenico; Turchet, Luca. - (2021), pp. 268-275. (Intervento presentato al convegno 24th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects, DAFx 2021 tenutosi a Vienna nel 08-10 September 2021) [10.23919/DAFx51585.2021.9768293].

Bio-Inspired Optimization of Parametric Onset Detectors

Stefani, Domenico;Turchet, Luca
2021-01-01

Abstract

Onset detectors are used to recognize the beginning of musical events in audio signals. Manual parameter tuning for onset detectors is a time consuming task, while existing automated approaches often maximize only a single performance metric. These automated approaches cannot be used to optimize detector algorithms for complex scenarios, such as real-time onset detection where an optimization process must consider both detection accuracy and latency. For this reason, a flexible optimization algorithm should account for more than one performance metric in a multiobjective manner. This paper presents a generalized procedure for automated optimization of parametric onset detectors. Our procedure employs a bio-inspired evolutionary computation algorithm to replace manual parameter tuning, followed by the computation of the Pareto frontier for multi-objective optimization. The proposed approach was evaluated on all the onset detection methods of the Aubio library, using a dataset of monophonic acoustic guitar recordings. Results show that the proposed solution is effective in reducing the human effort required in the optimization process: it replaced more than two days of manual parameter tuning with 13 hours and 34 minutes of automated computation. Moreover, the resulting performance was comparable to that obtained by manual optimization.
2021
Proceedings of the International Conference on Digital Audio Effects
Piscataway, NJ USA
IEEE
978-3-200-08378-3
Stefani, Domenico; Turchet, Luca
Bio-Inspired Optimization of Parametric Onset Detectors / Stefani, Domenico; Turchet, Luca. - (2021), pp. 268-275. (Intervento presentato al convegno 24th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects, DAFx 2021 tenutosi a Vienna nel 08-10 September 2021) [10.23919/DAFx51585.2021.9768293].
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