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Music is characterized by complex hierarchical structures. Developing a comprehensive model to capture these structures has been a significant challenge in the field of Music Information Retrieval (MIR). Prior research has mainly focused on…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-01 Taejun Kim , Juhan Nam

In deep learning research, many melody extraction models rely on redesigning neural network architectures to improve performance. In this paper, we propose an input feature modification and a training objective modification based on two…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Keren Shao , Ke Chen , Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick , Shlomo Dubnov

In this paper, we design a system in order to perform the real-time beat tracking for an audio signal. We use Onset Strength Signal (OSS) to detect the onsets and estimate the tempos. Then, we form Cumulative Beat Strength Signal (CBSS) by…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-10-31 Ali Mottaghi , Kayhan Behdin , Ashkan Esmaeili , Mohammadreza Heydari , Farokh Marvasti

The identification of siren sounds in urban soundscapes is a crucial safety aspect for smart vehicles and has been widely addressed by means of neural networks that ensure robustness to both the diversity of siren signals and the strong and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-16 Stefano Damiano , Thomas Dietzen , Toon van Waterschoot

Beat tracking is a widely researched topic in music information retrieval. However, current beat tracking methods face challenges due to the scarcity of labeled data, which limits their ability to generalize across diverse musical styles…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Ganghui Ru , Jieying Wang , Jiahao Zhao , Yulun Wu , Yi Yu , Nannan Jiang , Wei Wang , Wei Li

We propose a system for tracking beats and downbeats with two objectives: generality across a diverse music range, and high accuracy. We achieve generality by training on multiple datasets -- including solo instrument recordings, pieces…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Francesco Foscarin , Jan Schlüter , Gerhard Widmer

We present Music Tagging Transformer that is trained with a semi-supervised approach. The proposed model captures local acoustic characteristics in shallow convolutional layers, then temporally summarizes the sequence of the extracted…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Minz Won , Keunwoo Choi , Xavier Serra

Ambiguities in data and problem constraints can lead to diverse, equally plausible outcomes for a machine learning task. In beat and downbeat tracking, for instance, different listeners may adopt various rhythmic interpretations, none of…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Antonin Gagnere , Slim Essid , Geoffroy Peeters

Bird sounds possess distinctive spectral structure which may exhibit small shifts in spectrum depending on the bird species and environmental conditions. In this paper, we propose using convolutional recurrent neural networks on the task of…

We present a new system for simultaneous estimation of keys, chords, and bass notes from music audio. It makes use of a novel chromagram representation of audio that takes perception of loudness into account. Furthermore, it is fully based…

Sound · Computer Science 2011-07-26 Yizhao Ni , Matt Mcvicar , Raul Santos-Rodriguez , Tijl De Bie

Automatic drum transcription, a subtask of the more general automatic music transcription, deals with extracting drum instrument note onsets from an audio source. Recently, progress in transcription performance has been made using…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-10-04 Richard Vogl , Gerhard Widmer , Peter Knees

One of the challenges of the Optical Music Recognition task is to transcript the symbols of the camera-captured images into digital music notations. Previous end-to-end model which was developed as a Convolutional Recurrent Neural Network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Aozhi Liu , Lipei Zhang , Yaqi Mei , Baoqiang Han , Zifeng Cai , Zhaohua Zhu , Jing Xiao

This paper studies the detection of bird calls in audio segments using stacked convolutional and recurrent neural networks. Data augmentation by blocks mixing and domain adaptation using a novel method of test mixing are proposed and…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-06-08 Sharath Adavanne , Konstantinos Drossos , Emre Çakır , Tuomas Virtanen

The online estimation of rhythmic information, such as beat positions, downbeat positions, and meter, is critical for many real-time music applications. Musical rhythm comprises complex hierarchical relationships across time, rendering its…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-10 Mojtaba Heydari , Frank Cwitkowitz , Zhiyao Duan

Considering music as a sequence of events with multiple complex dependencies, the Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) architecture has proven very efficient in learning and reproducing musical styles. However, the generation of rhythms requires…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Dimos Makris , Maximos Kaliakatsos-Papakostas , Katia Lida Kermanidis

Rhythm patterns can be performed with a wide variation of tempi. This presents a challenge for many music information retrieval (MIR) systems; ideally, perceptually similar rhythms should be represented and processed similarly, regardless…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Anders Elowsson

This paper describes a neural drum transcription method that detects from music signals the onset times of drums at the $\textit{tatum}$ level, where tatum times are assumed to be estimated in advance. In conventional studies on drum…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-09 Ryoto Ishizuka , Ryo Nishikimi , Eita Nakamura , Kazuyoshi Yoshii

We present a model for capturing musical features and creating novel sequences of music, called the Convolutional Variational Recurrent Neural Network. To generate sequential data, the model uses an encoder-decoder architecture with latent…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Eunjeong Stella Koh , Shlomo Dubnov , Dustin Wright

This paper explores sequential modelling of polyphonic music with deep neural networks. While recent breakthroughs have focussed on network architecture, we demonstrate that the representation of the sequence can make an equally significant…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Omar Peracha

Automatic music transcription is considered to be one of the hardest problems in music information retrieval, yet recent deep learning approaches have achieved substantial improvements on transcription performance. These approaches commonly…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-06-21 Jong Wook Kim , Juan Pablo Bello