IDS project - Music component separation tool

Separating components of music has been a challenging problem for DJs, music producers, and the  karaoke industry. Given a song, often it is desired to isolate the audio to treat each instrument track  separately and try different mixes of instruments and beats. Karaoke service workers also need separate  the vocal track from the instruments. There are some tools already available for doing this task, but separation is often time-consuming and  results are imperfect. We try to create a tool based on Independent Component Analysis (ICA) for  separating the different audio signals from the instruments from each other. Whether you work in the  music industry or are just trying to have some fun creating your own lo-fi beats, this post is for you! We  will introduce you to the basics of ICA and walk you through some examples so that you can apply it to  your own songs. Independent Component Analysis is a computational method for separating multiple signals into  subcomponents. For the meth