Patents

[www] Zafar Rafii and Bryan Pardo. “Acoustic Separation System and Method,” US Patent No. 20,130,064,379. 14 March 2013.

Journal Articles

[pdf] Zafar Rafii, Zhiyao Duan, and Bryan Pardo. "Combining Rhythm-based and Pitch-based Methods for Background and Melody Separation," IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 22(12):1884-1893, December 2014.

[pdf] Antoine Liutkus, Derry FitzGerald, Zafar Rafii, Bryan Pardo, and Laurent Daudet. "Kernel Additive Models for Source Separation," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 62(16):4298--4310, August 2014.

[pdf] Zafar Rafii and Bryan Pardo. "REpeating Pattern Extraction Technique (REPET): A Simple Method for Music/Voice Separation," IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 21(1):71--82, January 2013.

[pdf] Andrew Todd Sabin, Zafar Rafii, and Bryan Pardo. "Weighting-Function-Based Rapid Mapping of Descriptors to Audio Processing Parameters," Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, 59(6):419--430, June 2011.

Tutorials

[pdf] Josh McDermott, Bryan Pardo, and Zafar Rafii. “Leveraging Repetition to Parse the Auditory Scene,” 13th International Society for Music Information Retrieval, Porto, Portugal, October 8-12 2012.

Conference Proceedings

[pdf] Derry FitzGerald, Antoine Liutkus, Zafar Rafii, Bryan Pardo, and Laurent Daudet. "Harmonic/Percussive Separation using Kernel Additive Modelling," 25th IET Irish Signals and Systems Conference, Limerick, Ireland, June 26-27 2014.

[pdf] Zafar Rafii, Bob Coover, and Jinyu Han. “An Audio Fingerprinting System for Live Version Identification using Image Processing Techniques,” 39th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Florence, Italy, May 4-9 2014. (poster)

[pdf] Zafar Rafii, Francois G. Germain, Dennis L. Sun, and Gautham J. Mysore. “Combining Modeling of Singing Voice and Background Music for Automatic Separation of Musical Mixtures,” 14th International Society for Music Information Retrieval, Curutiba, PR, Brazil, November 4-8 2013. (poster)

[pdf] Zafar Rafii and Bryan Pardo. “Online REPET-SIM for Real-time Speech Enhancement,” 38th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Vancouver, BC, Canada, May 26-31 2013. (poster)

[pdf] Zafar Rafii and Bryan Pardo. “Music/Voice Separation using the Similarity Matrix,” 13th International Society for Music Information Retrieval, Porto, Portugal, October 8-12 2012. (slides)

[pdf] Antoine Liutkus, Zafar Rafii, Roland Badeau, Bryan Pardo, and Gaël Richard. “Adaptive Filtering for Music/Voice Separation Exploiting the Repeating Musical Structure,” 37th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Kyoto, Japan, March 25-30 2012. (slides)

[pdf] Zafar Rafii and Bryan Pardo. "A Simple Music/Voice Separation Method based on the Extraction of the Repeating Musical Structure," 36th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Prague, Czech Republic, May 22-27 2011. (poster)

[pdf] Zafar Rafii and Bryan Pardo. "Degenerate Unmixing Estimation Technique using the Constant Q Transform," 36th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Prague, Czech Republic, May 22-27, 2011. (poster)

[pdf] Zafar Rafii and Bryan Pardo. "Learning to control a Reverberator using Subjective Perceptual Descriptors," 10th International Society for Music Information Retrieval, Kobe, Japan, October 26-30 2009. (poster)

Workshops

[pdf] Antoine Liutkus, Zafar Rafii, Bryan Pardo, Derry FitzGerald, and Laurent Daudet. "Kernel Spectrogram Models for Source Separation," 4th Joint Workshop on Hands-free Speech Communication Microphone Arrays, Nancy, France, May 12-14 2014. (slides)

[pdf] Mark Cartwright, Zafar Rafii, Jinyu Han, and Bryan Pardo. "Making Searchable Melodies: Human vs. Machine," 3rd Human Computation Workshop, San Francisco, CA, USA, August 8 2011. (poster)

[pdf] Zafar Rafii, Raphael Blouet, and Antoine Liutkus. "Discriminant within Non-negative Matrix Factorization for Musical Components Recognition," Digital Music Research Network One-day Workshop 2007, Queen Mary, University of London, UK, December 18 2007.

Book Chapters

[pdf] Bryan Pardo, Zafar Rafii, and Zhiyao Duan. "Audio Source Separation in Musical Context," Handbook of Systematic Musicology, Springer. (under review)

[pdf] Zafar Rafii, Antoine Liutkus, and Bryan Pardo. "REPET for Background/Foreground Separation in Audio," Blind Source Separation, chapter 14, pages 395--411, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2014.

Seminars

[pdf] Zafar Rafii. "An Audio Fingerprinting System for Live Version Identification using Image Processing Techniques," Midwest Music Information Retrieval Gathering, Evanston, IL, USA, June 14 2014.

[pdf] Zafar Rafii. "A Simple Music/Voice Separation Method based on the Extraction of the Repeating Musical Structure," Telecom ParisTech, Paris, France, July 29 2011.

[pdf] Zafar Rafii. "REPET," Midwest Music Information Retrieval Gathering, Evanston, IL, USA, June 24 2011.

Technical Reports

[pdf] Zafar Rafii and Bryan Pardo. "A Digital Reverberator controlled through Measures of the Reverberation," Northwestern University, EECS Department Technical Report, NWU-EECS-09-08, 2009.

Lectures

[pdf] Zafar Rafii. “Time-frequency Masking," EECS 352: Machine Perception of Music and Audio, Northwestern University, Spring 2012 and Winter 2014.

[pdf] Zafar Rafii. "Rhythm Analysis in Music," EECS 352: Machine Perception of Music and Audio, Northwestern University, Spring 2012 and Winter 2014.

[pdf] Zafar Rafii. "REpeating Pattern Extraction Technique (REPET)," EECS 352: Machine Perception of Music and Audio, Northwestern University, Spring 2012 and Winter 2014.

[pdf] Zafar Rafii. "Audio Fingerprinting," EECS 352: Machine Perception of Music and Audio, Northwestern University, Winter 2014.