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In this paper, we introduce a novel task called language-guided joint audio-visual editing. Given an audio and image pair of a sounding event, this task aims at generating new audio-visual content by editing the given sounding event…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Susan Liang , Chao Huang , Yapeng Tian , Anurag Kumar , Chenliang Xu

This work introduces the M6(GPT)3 composer system, capable of generating complete, multi-minute musical compositions with complex structures in any time signature, in the MIDI domain from input descriptions in natural language. The system…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Jakub Poćwiardowski , Mateusz Modrzejewski , Marek S. Tatara

Recent advances in generative AI for music have achieved remarkable fidelity and stylistic diversity, yet these systems often fail to align with nuanced human preferences due to the specific loss functions they use. This paper advocates for…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Dorien Herremans , Abhinaba Roy

This paper presents a novel method for extracting acoustic features that characterise the background environment in audio recordings. These features are based on the output of an alignment that fits multiple parallel background--based…

Sound · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Oscar Saz , Mortaza Doulaty , Thomas Hain

LLM-powered code generation has the potential to revolutionize creative coding endeavors, such as live-coding, by enabling users to focus on structural motifs over syntactic details. In such domains, when prompting an LLM, users may benefit…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Sam Kouteili , Hiren Madhu , George Typaldos , Mark Santolucito

Music Generation (MG) is an interesting research topic that links the art of music and Artificial Intelligence (AI). The goal is to train an artificial composer to generate infinite, fresh, and pleasurable musical pieces. Music has…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Majid Farzaneh , Rahil Mahdian Toroghi

The automatic generation of computer programs is one of the main applications with practical relevance in the field of evolutionary computation. With program synthesis techniques not only software developers could be supported in their…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Dominik Sobania , Dirk Schweim , Franz Rothlauf

Composing music for video is essential yet challenging, leading to a growing interest in automating music generation for video applications. Existing approaches often struggle to achieve robust music-video correspondence and generative…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Heda Zuo , Weitao You , Junxian Wu , Shihong Ren , Pei Chen , Mingxu Zhou , Yujia Lu , Lingyun Sun

Combining multiple audio features can improve the performance of music tagging, but common deep learning-based feature fusion methods often lack interpretability. To address this problem, we propose a Genetic Programming (GP) pipeline that…

This work pioneers the utilization of generative features in enhancing audio understanding. Unlike conventional discriminative features that directly optimize posterior and thus emphasize semantic abstraction while losing fine grained…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Zeyu Xie , Chenxing Li , Xuenan Xu , Mengyue Wu , Wenfu Wang , Ruibo Fu , Meng Yu , Dong Yu , Yuexian Zou

A remarkable feature of human beings is their capacity for creative behaviour, referring to their ability to react to problems in ways that are novel, surprising, and useful. Transformational creativity is a form of creativity where the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-26 Maarten Grachten , Carlos Eduardo Cancino Chacón

Sound effect editing-modifying audio by adding, removing, or replacing elements-remains constrained by existing approaches that rely solely on low-level signal processing or coarse text prompts, often resulting in limited flexibility and…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Xinyue Guo , Xiaoran Yang , Lipan Zhang , Jianxuan Yang , Zhao Wang , Jian Luan

A music mashup combines audio elements from two or more songs to create a new work. To reduce the time and effort required to make them, researchers have developed algorithms that predict the compatibility of audio elements. Prior work has…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Jiawen Huang , Ju-Chiang Wang , Jordan B. L. Smith , Xuchen Song , Yuxuan Wang

Procedural story generation (PCG) tailors a unique narrative experience for a player and can be accomplished via multiple techniques, from matching storylets to grammar-based generation. There exists a rich opportunity for evolutionary…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Erik M. Fredericks , Byron DeVries

Music profoundly enhances video production by improving quality, engagement, and emotional resonance, sparking growing interest in video-to-music generation. Despite recent advances, existing approaches remain limited in specific scenarios…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Xiaohao Liu , Teng Tu , Yunshan Ma , Tat-Seng Chua

We introduce SeeingSounds, a lightweight and modular framework for audio-to-image generation that leverages the interplay between audio, language, and vision-without requiring any paired audio-visual data or training on visual generative…

Providing soundtracks for videos remains a costly and time-consuming challenge for multimedia content creators. We introduce EMSYNC, an automatic video-based symbolic music generator that creates music aligned with a video's emotional…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Serkan Sulun , Paula Viana , Matthew E. P. Davies

Diffusion models have shown promising results in cross-modal generation tasks, including text-to-image and text-to-audio generation. However, generating music, as a special type of audio, presents unique challenges due to limited…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Ke Chen , Yusong Wu , Haohe Liu , Marianna Nezhurina , Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick , Shlomo Dubnov

This article presents results of experimental studies the effectiveness of the genetic algorithm that was applied to effective queries creation and relevant document selection. Studies were carried out to the comparative analysis of the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-04-06 V. K. Ivanov , B. V. Palyukh

Sound design involves creatively selecting, recording, and editing sound effects for various media like cinema, video games, and virtual/augmented reality. One of the most time-consuming steps when designing sound is synchronizing audio…