Y-Net

Official implementation of A cappella: Audio-visual Singing VoiceSeparation, British Machine Vision Conference 2021

Project page: ipcv.github.io/Acappella/
Paper: Arxiv, Supplementary Material, BMVC (not available yet)

Running a demo / Y-Net Inference

We provide simple functions to load models with pre-trained weights. Steps:

1. Clone the repo or download y-net>VnBSS>models (models can run as a standalone package)
2. Load a model:

from VnBSS import y_net_gr # or from models import y_net_gr 
model = y_net_gr()

Examples can be found at y_net>examples. Also you can have a look at tcol.py or example.py, files which computes the demos shown in the website.
Check a demo fully working:

Citation

@inproceedings{acappella,
    author    = {Juan F. Montesinos and
                 Venkatesh S. Kadandale and
                 Gloria Haro},
    title     = {A cappella: Audio-visual Singing VoiceSeparation},
    booktitle = {British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC)},
    year      = {2021},

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Training / Using DEV code

Training

The most difficult part is to prepare the dataset as everything is builded upon a very specific format.
To run training:
python run.py -m model_name --workname experiment_name --arxiv_path directory_of_experiments --pretrained_from path_pret_weights
You can inspect the argparse at default.py>argparse_default.
Possible model names are: y_net_g, y_net_gr, y_net_m,y_net_r,u_net,llcp

Testing

1. Go to manuscript_scripts and replace checkpoint paths by yours in the testing scripts.
2. Run: bash manuscript_scripts/test_gr_r.sh
3. Replace the paths of manuscript_scripts/auto_metrics.py by your experiment_directory path.
4. Run: python manuscript_scripts/auto_metrics.py to visualise results.

It's a complicated framework. HELP!

The best option to run the framework is to debug! Having a runable code helps to see input shapes, dataflow and to run line by line. Download The circle of life demo with the files already processed. It will act like a dataset of 6 samples. You can download it from Google Drive 1.1 Gb.

1. Unzip the file
2. run python run.py -m y_net_gr (for example) TODO :D

Everything has been configured to run by default this way.

The model

Each effective model is wrapped by a nn.Module which takes care of computing the STFT, the mask, returning the waveform etcetera... This wrapper can be found at VnBSS>models>y_net.py>YNet. To get rid of this you can simply inherit the class, take minimum layers and keep the core_forward method, which is the inference step without the miscelanea.

Downloading the datasets

To download the Acappella Dataset run the script at preproc>preprocess.py
To download the demos used in the website run preproc>demo_preprocessor.py
Audioset can be downloaded via webapp, streamlit run audioset.py

Computing the demos

Demos shown in the website can be computed:

• The circle of life demo is obtained by running tcol.py. First turn the flag COMPUTE=True. To visualize the results turn the flag COMPUTE=False and run a streamlit run tcol.py.

FAQs

1. How to change the optimizer's hyperparameters?
   Go to config>optimizer.json
2. How to change clip duration, video framerate, STFT parameters or audio samplerate?
   Go to config>__init__.py
3. How to change the batch size or the amount of epochs?
   Go to config>hyptrs.json
4. How to dump predictions from the training and test set
   Go to default.py. Modify DUMP_FILES (can be controlled at a subset level). force argument skips the iteration-wise conditions and dumps for every single network prediction.
5. Is tensorboard enabled?
   Yes, you will find tensorboard records at your_experiment_directory/used_workname/tensorboard
6. Can I resume an experiment?
   Yes, if you set exactly the same experiment folder and workname, the system will detect it and will resume from there.
7. I'm trying to resume but found AssertionError If there is an exception before running the model
8. How to change the amount of layers of U-Net
   U-net is build dynamically given a list of layers per block as shown in models>__init__.py from outer to inner blocks.
9. How to modify the default network values?
   The json file config>net_cfg.json overwrites any default configuration from the model.