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In the domain of Music Information Retrieval (MIR), Automatic Music Transcription (AMT) emerges as a central challenge, aiming to convert audio signals into symbolic notations like musical notes or sheet music. This systematic review…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Fatemeh Jamshidi , Gary Pike , Amit Das , Richard Chapman

Optical Music Recognition (OMR) has long been without an adequate dataset and ground truth for evaluating OMR systems, which has been a major problem for establishing a state of the art in the field. Furthermore, machine learning methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-16 Jan Hajič , Pavel Pecina

This work proposes a novel feature selection algorithm to classify Songs into different groups. Classification of musical content is often a non-trivial job and still relatively less explored area. The main idea conveyed in this article is…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Anish Acharya

We introduce the Free Universal Sound Separation (FUSS) dataset, a new corpus for experiments in separating mixtures of an unknown number of sounds from an open domain of sound types. The dataset consists of 23 hours of single-source audio…

The development of models for learning music similarity and feature extraction from audio media files is an increasingly important task for the entertainment industry. This work proposes a novel music classification model based on metric…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Angelo C. Mendes da Silva , Mauricio A. Nunes , Raul Fonseca Neto

We introduce Meta-Album, an image classification meta-dataset designed to facilitate few-shot learning, transfer learning, meta-learning, among other tasks. It includes 40 open datasets, each having at least 20 classes with 40 examples per…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-20 Ihsan Ullah , Dustin Carrión-Ojeda , Sergio Escalera , Isabelle Guyon , Mike Huisman , Felix Mohr , Jan N van Rijn , Haozhe Sun , Joaquin Vanschoren , Phan Anh Vu

Audio-based music structure analysis (MSA) is an essential task in Music Information Retrieval that remains challenging due to the complexity and variability of musical form. Recent advances highlight the potential of fine-tuning…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Yixiao Zhang , Haonan Chen , Ju-Chiang Wang , Jitong Chen

Music structure analysis (MSA) underpins music understanding and controllable generation, yet progress has been limited by small, inconsistent corpora. We present SongFormer, a scalable framework that learns from heterogeneous supervision.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-09 Chunbo Hao , Ruibin Yuan , Jixun Yao , Qixin Deng , Xinyi Bai , Yanbo Wang , Wei Xue , Lei Xie

The technology for generating music from textual descriptions has seen rapid advancements. However, evaluating text-to-music (TTM) systems remains a significant challenge, primarily due to the difficulty of balancing performance and cost…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Cheng Liu , Hui Wang , Jinghua Zhao , Shiwan Zhao , Hui Bu , Xin Xu , Jiaming Zhou , Haoqin Sun , Yong Qin

Generative audio models, based on diffusion and autoregressive architectures, have advanced rapidly in both quality and expressiveness. This progress, however, raises pressing copyright concerns, as such models are often trained on vast…

Multimodal Information Retrieval has made significant progress in recent years, leveraging the increasingly strong multimodal abilities of deep pre-trained models to represent information across modalities. Music Information Retrieval…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Benjamin Clavié , Atoof Shakir , Jonah Turner , Sean Lee , Aamir Shakir , Makoto P. Kato

Machine-generated music (MGM) has emerged as a powerful tool with applications in music therapy, personalised editing, and creative inspiration for the music community. However, its unregulated use threatens the entertainment, education,…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Yupei Li , Hanqian Li , Lucia Specia , Björn W. Schuller

The mood of a song is a highly relevant feature for exploration and recommendation in large collections of music. These collections tend to require automatic methods for predicting such moods. In this work, we show that listening-based…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-24 Filip Korzeniowski , Oriol Nieto , Matthew McCallum , Minz Won , Sergio Oramas , Erik Schmidt

Music Structure Analysis (MSA) aims to uncover the high-level organization of musical pieces. State-of-the-art methods are often based on supervised deep learning, but these methods are bottlenecked by the need for heavily annotated data…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Axel Marmoret

Multimodal music emotion recognition (MMER) is an emerging discipline in music information retrieval that has experienced a surge in interest in recent years. This survey provides a comprehensive overview of the current state-of-the-art in…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Rashini Liyanarachchi , Aditya Joshi , Erik Meijering

Automatic Music Transcription (AMT) -- the task of converting music audio into note representations -- has seen rapid progress, driven largely by deep learning systems. Due to the limited availability of richly annotated music datasets,…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Lukáš Samuel Marták , Patricia Hu , Gerhard Widmer

Music tagging and content-based retrieval systems have traditionally been constructed using pre-defined ontologies covering a rigid set of music attributes or text queries. This paper presents MuLan: a first attempt at a new generation of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-29 Qingqing Huang , Aren Jansen , Joonseok Lee , Ravi Ganti , Judith Yue Li , Daniel P. W. Ellis

Developing open-source foundation models is essential for advancing research in music audio understanding and ensuring access to powerful, multipurpose representations for music information retrieval. We present OMAR-RQ, a model trained…

Recent work on music question answering (Music-QA) has primarily focused on single-track understanding, where models answer questions about an individual audio clip using its tags, captions, or metadata. However, listeners often describe…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Junyoung Koh , Jaeyun Lee , Soo Yong Kim , Gyu Hyeong Choi , Jung In Koh , Jordan Phillips , Yeonjin Lee , Min Song

We introduce Music Source Restoration (MSR), a novel task addressing the gap between idealized source separation and real-world music production. Current Music Source Separation (MSS) approaches assume mixtures are simple sums of sources,…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Yongyi Zang , Zheqi Dai , Mark D. Plumbley , Qiuqiang Kong