A review on music source separation

Music source separation is relevant to many applications including automatic music transcription, remixing in studio, content related music indexing etc. Though source separation has been discussed for decades, there is no systematic summarization focuses on music source separation. Different methods and techniques have been proposed from the different point of views based on the researcher's own specialties. With certain advantages and limitations, they are scattering over different conference proceedings, journals of different subjects, reports, dissertations, and chapter of books. One purpose of this work is to collect them together in one place, thus facilitating the future research on this fascinating topic. The other one is to point out the possible directions of future research.