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MIDI velocity is crucial for capturing expressive dynamics in human performances. In practical scenarios, a music score with inaccurate velocities may be available alongside the performance audio (e.g., music education and free online…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-03 Zhanhong He , Roberto Togneri , David Huang

Sonification offers a non-visual way to understand data, with pitch-based encodings being the most common. Yet, how well people perceive slope and acceleration-key features of data trends-remains poorly understood. Drawing on people's…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Danyang Fan , Walker Smith , Takako Fujioka , Chris Chafe , Sile O'Modhrain , Diana Deutsch , Sean Follmer

We consider the conversion of musical recordings into human-readable sheet music annotated with timestamps. Such output lets a listener clearly visualize rubato (temporally expressive playing), a learner diagnose ensemble precision and…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Nazif Can Tamer , Victoria Ebert , Guang Yang , Noah A. Smith

We propose a unified model for three inter-related tasks: 1) to \textit{separate} individual sound sources from a mixed music audio, 2) to \textit{transcribe} each sound source to MIDI notes, and 3) to\textit{ synthesize} new pieces based…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Liwei Lin , Qiuqiang Kong , Junyan Jiang , Gus Xia

Diffusion models are typically trained using score matching, a learning objective agnostic to the underlying noising process that guides the model. This paper argues that Markov noising processes enjoy an advantage over alternatives, as the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-27 Zheyang Shen , Huihui Wang , Marina Riabiz , Chris J. Oates

The assessment of music performances in most cases takes into account the underlying musical score being performed. While there have been several automatic approaches for objective music performance assessment (MPA) based on extracted…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-04 Jiawen Huang , Yun-Ning Hung , Ashis Pati , Siddharth Kumar Gururani , Alexander Lerch

This paper presents a method of unsupervised learning of harmonic analysis based on a hidden semi-Markov model (HSMM). We introduce the chord quality templates, which specify the probability of pitch class emissions given a root note and a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Yui Uehara

Real-time music tracking systems follow a musical performance and at any time report the current position in a corresponding score. Most existing methods approach this problem exclusively in the audio domain, typically using online time…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Silvan Peter , Patricia Hu , Gerhard Widmer

Performance-score synchronization is an integral task in signal processing, which entails generating an accurate mapping between an audio recording of a performance and the corresponding musical score. Traditional synchronization methods…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Ruchit Agrawal , Daniel Wolff , Simon Dixon

Extracting pitch information from music recordings is a challenging but important problem in music signal processing. Frame-wise transcription or multi-pitch estimation aims for detecting the simultaneous activity of pitches in polyphonic…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Christof Weiß , Geoffroy Peeters

Automatic music transcription (AMT) has achieved high accuracy for piano due to the availability of large, high-quality datasets such as MAESTRO and MAPS, but comparable datasets are not yet available for other instruments. In recent work,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-26 Xavier Riley , Drew Edwards , Simon Dixon

Extraction of symbolic information from signals is an active field of research enabling numerous applications especially in the Musical Information Retrieval domain. This complex task, that is also related to other topics such as pitch…

Pitch estimation is to estimate the fundamental frequency and the midi number and plays a critical role in music signal analysis and vocal signal processing. In this work, we proposed a new architecture based on a learning-based enhancement…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Yu Cheng Hung , Ping Hung Chen , Jian Jiun Ding

This paper presents a context-aware framework for feature selection and classification procedures to realize a fast and accurate audio event annotation and classification. The context-aware design starts with exploring feature extraction…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-08 M. Mehrdad Morsali , Hoda Mohammadzade , Saeed Bagheri Shouraki

Lack of large-scale note-level labeled data is the major obstacle to singing transcription from polyphonic music. We address the issue by using pseudo labels from vocal pitch estimation models given unlabeled data. The proposed method first…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-31 Sangeun Kum , Jongpil Lee , Keunhyoung Luke Kim , Taehyoung Kim , Juhan Nam

For many music analysis problems, we need to know the presence of instruments for each time frame in a multi-instrument musical piece. However, such a frame-level instrument recognition task remains difficult, mainly due to the lack of…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Yun-Ning Hung , Yi-An Chen , Yi-Hsuan Yang

Quality of data plays an important role in most deep learning tasks. In the speech community, transcription of speech recording is indispensable. Since the transcription is usually generated artificially, automatically finding errors in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Xiaofei Wang , Jinyi Yang , Ruizhi Li , Samik Sadhu , Hynek Hermansky

This paper approaches the problem of separating the notes from a quantized symbolic music piece (e.g., a MIDI file) into multiple voices and staves. This is a fundamental part of the larger task of music score engraving (or score…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-01 Francesco Foscarin , Emmanouil Karystinaios , Eita Nakamura , Gerhard Widmer

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

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