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Audio-to-score alignment is an important pre-processing step for in-depth analysis of classical music. In this paper, we apply novel transposition-invariant audio features to this task. These low-dimensional features represent local pitch…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-07-20 Andreas Arzt , Stefan Lattner

This Thesis discusses the development of technologies for the automatic resynthesis of music recordings using digital synthesizers. First, the main issue is identified in the understanding of how Music Information Processing (MIP) methods…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Federico Simonetta

Automatic Music Transcription (AMT), inferring musical notes from raw audio, is a challenging task at the core of music understanding. Unlike Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), which typically focuses on the words of a single speaker, AMT…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Josh Gardner , Ian Simon , Ethan Manilow , Curtis Hawthorne , Jesse Engel

Jazz guitar solos are improvised melody lines played on one instrument on top of a chordal accompaniment (comping). As the improvisation happens spontaneously, a reference score is non-existent, only a lead sheet. There are situations,…

Sound · Computer Science 2016-11-22 Stanislaw Gorlow , Mathieu Ramona , François Pachet

Digital audio effects are widely used by audio engineers to alter the acoustic and temporal qualities of audio data. However, these effects can have a large number of parameters which can make them difficult to learn for beginners and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Kieran Grant

Evaluation for continuous piano pedal depth estimation tasks remains incomplete when relying only on conventional frame-level metrics, which overlook musically important features such as direction-change boundaries and pedal curve contours.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Hanwen Zhang , Kun Fang , Ziyu Wang , Ichiro Fujinaga

Recent advances in polyphonic piano transcription have been made primarily by a deliberate design of neural network architectures that detect different note states such as onset or sustain and model the temporal evolution of the states. The…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-05 Taegyun Kwon , Dasaem Jeong , Juhan Nam

How can we process a piece of recorded music to detect and visualize the onset of each instrument? A simple, interpretable approach is based on partially fixed nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF). Yet despite the method's simplicity,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-16 Alisha L. Foster , Robert J. Webber

Automatic Music Transcription (AMT) is a vital technology in the field of music information processing. Despite recent enhancements in performance due to machine learning techniques, current methods typically attain high accuracy in domains…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Gakusei Sato , Taketo Akama

We present a framework based on neural networks to extract music scores directly from polyphonic audio in an end-to-end fashion. Most previous Automatic Music Transcription (AMT) methods seek a piano-roll representation of the pitches, that…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Miguel A. Román , Antonio Pertusa , Jorge Calvo-Zaragoza

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

Many music theoretical constructs (such as scale types, modes, cadences, and chord types) are defined in terms of pitch intervals---relative distances between pitches. Therefore, when computer models are employed in music tasks, it can be…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Stefan Lattner , Maarten Grachten , Gerhard Widmer

Recent advancements in Automatic Piano Transcription (APT) have significantly improved system performance, but the impact of noisy environments on the system performance remains largely unexplored. This study investigates the impact of…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Yonghyun Kim , Alexander Lerch

We present a statistical-modelling method for piano reduction, i.e. converting an ensemble score into piano scores, that can control performance difficulty. While previous studies have focused on describing the condition for playable piano…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-10-26 Eita Nakamura , Kazuyoshi Yoshii

In recent years, research on music transcription has focused mainly on architecture design and instrument-specific data acquisition. With the lack of availability of diverse datasets, progress is often limited to solo-instrument tasks such…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-25 Frank Cwitkowitz , Kin Wai Cheuk , Woosung Choi , Marco A. Martínez-Ramírez , Keisuke Toyama , Wei-Hsiang Liao , Yuki Mitsufuji

Despite its potential, AI advances in music education are hindered by proprietary systems that limit the democratization of technology in this domain. In particular, AI-driven music difficulty adjustment is especially promising, as…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Pedro Ramoneda , Emilia Parada-Cabaleiro , Dasaem Jeong , Xavier Serra

We propose a timbre conversion model based on the Diffusion architecture de-signed to precisely translate music played by various instruments into piano ver-sions. The model employs a Pitch Encoder and Loudness Encoder to extract pitch and…

This paper describes a streaming audio-to-MIDI piano transcription approach that aims to sequentially translate a music signal into a sequence of note onset and offset events. The sequence-to-sequence nature of this task may call for the…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Weixing Wei , Jiahao Zhao , Yulun Wu , Kazuyoshi Yoshii

The original MV2H metric was designed to evaluate systems which transcribe from an input audio (or MIDI) piece to a complete musical score. However, it requires both the transcribed score and the ground truth score to be time-aligned with…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-09 Andrew McLeod

This paper explores a variety of models for frame-based music transcription, with an emphasis on the methods needed to reach state-of-the-art on human recordings. The translation-invariant network discussed in this paper, which combines a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-15 John Thickstun , Zaid Harchaoui , Dean Foster , Sham M. Kakade