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SoundSignature is a music application that integrates a custom OpenAI Assistant to analyze users' favorite songs. The system incorporates state-of-the-art Music Information Retrieval (MIR) Python packages to combine extracted…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Brandon James Carone , Pablo Ripollés

Generating music that aligns with the visual content of a video has been a challenging task, as it requires a deep understanding of visual semantics and involves generating music whose melody, rhythm, and dynamics harmonize with the visual…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Ruiqi Li , Siqi Zheng , Xize Cheng , Ziang Zhang , Shengpeng Ji , Zhou Zhao

Multimodal learning has driven innovation across various industries, particularly in the field of music. By enabling more intuitive interaction experiences and enhancing immersion, it not only lowers the entry barriers to the music but also…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Sifei Li , Mining Tan , Feier Shen , Minyan Luo , Zijiao Yin , Fan Tang , Weiming Dong , Changsheng Xu

The world of audio production and design has long been a difficult one to break into, requiring expertise and a working knowledge of the standard digital audio paradigms. This paper describes a novel interface that makes audio production…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Alexander Scarlatos

We propose a knowledge-driven, model-based approach to segmenting audio into single-category and mixed-category chunks with applications to source separation. "Knowledge" here denotes information associated with the data, such as music…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-26 Chun-wei Ho , Sabato Marco Siniscalchi , Kai Li , Chin-Hui Lee

We here summarize our experience running a challenge with open data for musical genre recognition. Those notes motivate the task and the challenge design, show some statistics about the submissions, and present the results.

Sound · Computer Science 2018-03-15 Michaël Defferrard , Sharada P. Mohanty , Sean F. Carroll , Marcel Salathé

Although a variety of transformers have been proposed for symbolic music generation in recent years, there is still little comprehensive study on how specific design choices affect the quality of the generated music. In this work, we…

Music editing is an important step in music production, which has broad applications, including game development and film production. Most existing zero-shot text-guided editing methods rely on pretrained diffusion models by involving…

Music Structure Analysis is an open research task in Music Information Retrieval (MIR). In the past, there have been several works that attempt to segment music into the audio and symbolic domains, however, the identification and…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Carlos Hernandez-Olivan , Sonia Rubio Llamas , Jose R. Beltran

With the development of diffusion models, text-guided image style transfer has demonstrated high-quality controllable synthesis results. However, the utilization of text for diverse music style transfer poses significant challenges,…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Sifei Li , Yuxin Zhang , Fan Tang , Chongyang Ma , Weiming dong , Changsheng Xu

This paper focuses on the nominal durations of musical events (notes and rests) in a symbolic musical score, and on how to conveniently handle these in computer applications. We propose the usage of a temporal unit that is directly related…

In this paper, we present TIV.lib, an open-source library for the content-based tonal description of musical audio signals. Its main novelty relies on the perceptually-inspired Tonal Interval Vector space based on the Discrete Fourier…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-31 António Ramires , Gilberto Bernardes , Matthew E. P. Davies , Xavier Serra

We propose Polyffusion, a diffusion model that generates polyphonic music scores by regarding music as image-like piano roll representations. The model is capable of controllable music generation with two paradigms: internal control and…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Lejun Min , Junyan Jiang , Gus Xia , Jingwei Zhao

This paper describes an object-oriented approach to music composition and sound design. The approach unifies the processes of music making and instrument building by using similar logic, objects, and procedures. The composition modules use…

Sound · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Hans G. Kaper , Sever Tipei , Jeff M. Wright

Deep Learning models have shown very promising results in automatically composing polyphonic music pieces. However, it is very hard to control such models in order to guide the compositions towards a desired goal. We are interested in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Lucas N. Ferreira , Jim Whitehead

Symbolic Music Generation relies on the contextual representation capabilities of the generative model, where the most prevalent approach is the Transformer-based model. The learning of musical context is also related to the structural…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Guowei Wu , Shipei Liu , Xiaoya Fan

While music generation models have evolved to handle complex multimodal inputs mixing text, lyrics, and reference audio, evaluation mechanisms have lagged behind. In this paper, we bridge this critical gap by establishing a comprehensive…

We propose a transformer-based rhythm quantization model that incorporates beat and downbeat information to quantize MIDI performances into metrically-aligned, human-readable scores. We propose a beat-based preprocessing method that…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Maximilian Wachter , Sebastian Murgul , Michael Heizmann

This article presents a review of typical techniques used in three distinct aspects of deep learning model development for audio generation. In the first part of the article, we provide an explanation of audio representations, beginning…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Matej Božić , Marko Horvat

We present a novel system that gets as an input video frames of a musician playing the piano and generates the music for that video. Generation of music from visual cues is a challenging problem and it is not clear whether it is an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Kun Su , Xiulong Liu , Eli Shlizerman