A fast search algorithm for background music signals based on the search for numerous small signal components

The paper proposes a method for detecting and locating a known music signal in a long audio stream. Unlike existing methods, ours assumes that the music is used as background music (BGM) and overlapped by another sound such as speech and that the interfering sound is typically louder than the target music. The proposed method is based on time-series active search, which is a quick signal search method reported earlier (Kashino, K. et al., Proc. ICASSP-99, vol.VI, 1999). To realize the BGM search, however, a novel extension is introduced. That is, the music signal is first decomposed into a number of small time-frequency regions, and the search is carried out for each of those components. The results of the search are then integrated based on a voting scheme to find the target music locations. Experiments show that an accurate search is possible when SNR is -5 dB and that the search completes in about 8 s for a 30 min stored signal.