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Current methods for Music Structure Analysis (MSA) focus primarily on audio data. While symbolic music can be synthesized into audio and analyzed using existing MSA techniques, such an approach does not exploit symbolic music's rich…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Omar Eldeeb , Martin Malandro

In automatic music generation, a central challenge is to design controls that enable meaningful human-machine interaction. Existing systems often rely on extrinsic inputs such as text prompts or metadata, which do not allow humans to…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Xiaoyu Yi , Qi He , Gus Xia , Ziyu Wang

We introduce a self-supervised speech pre-training method called TERA, which stands for Transformer Encoder Representations from Alteration. Recent approaches often learn by using a single auxiliary task like contrastive prediction,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-05 Andy T. Liu , Shang-Wen Li , Hung-yi Lee

This paper explores a specific sub-task of cross-modal music retrieval. We consider the delicate task of retrieving a performance or rendition of a musical piece based on a description of its style, expressive character, or emotion from a…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Shreyan Chowdhury , Gerhard Widmer

Symbolic Music Emotion Recognition(SMER) is to predict music emotion from symbolic data, such as MIDI and MusicXML. Previous work mainly focused on learning better representation via (mask) language model pre-training but ignored the…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Jibao Qiu , C. L. Philip Chen , Tong Zhang

Definitive embeddings remain a fundamental challenge of computational musicology for symbolic music in deep learning today. Analogous to natural language, music can be modeled as a sequence of tokens. This motivates the majority of existing…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Hongru Liang , Wenqiang Lei , Paul Yaozhu Chan , Zhenglu Yang , Maosong Sun , Tat-Seng Chua

Self-supervised learning has emerged as a powerful way to pre-train generalizable machine learning models on large amounts of unlabeled data. It is particularly compelling in the music domain, where obtaining labeled data is time-consuming,…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Gabriel Meseguer-Brocal , Dorian Desblancs , Romain Hennequin

The present methodology is aimed at cross-modal machine learning and uses multidisciplinary tools and methods drawn from a broad range of areas and disciplines, including music, systematic musicology, dance, motion capture, human-computer…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2017-12-04 Fabio Paolizzo

Audiovisual representation learning typically relies on the correspondence between sight and sound. However, there are often multiple audio tracks that can correspond with a visual scene. Consider, for example, different conversations on…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Nikhil Singh , Chih-Wei Wu , Iroro Orife , Mahdi Kalayeh

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

Score-based generative models and diffusion probabilistic models have been successful at generating high-quality samples in continuous domains such as images and audio. However, due to their Langevin-inspired sampling mechanisms, their…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Gautam Mittal , Jesse Engel , Curtis Hawthorne , Ian Simon

We introduce VampNet, a masked acoustic token modeling approach to music synthesis, compression, inpainting, and variation. We use a variable masking schedule during training which allows us to sample coherent music from the model by…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Hugo Flores Garcia , Prem Seetharaman , Rithesh Kumar , Bryan Pardo

Music representation learning is notoriously difficult for its complex human-related concepts contained in the sequence of numerical signals. To excavate better MUsic SEquence Representation from labeled audio, we propose a novel…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Tianyu Chen , Yuan Xie , Shuai Zhang , Shaohan Huang , Haoyi Zhou , Jianxin Li

In this work, we study music/video cross-modal recommendation, i.e. recommending a music track for a video or vice versa. We rely on a self-supervised learning paradigm to learn from a large amount of unlabelled data. We rely on a…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Laure Pretet , Gael Richard , Geoffroy Peeters

This paper presents the first step in a research project situated within the field of musical agents. The objective is to achieve, through training, the tuning of the desired musical relationship between a live musical input and a real-time…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Balthazar Bujard , Jérôme Nika , Fédéric Bevilacqua , Nicolas Obin

Music similarity is an essential aspect of music retrieval, recommendation systems, and music analysis. Moreover, similarity is of vital interest for music experts, as it allows studying analogies and influences among composers and…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Andrea Poltronieri

Can music be represented as a meaningful geometric and topological object? In this paper, we propose a strategy to describe some music features as a polyhedral surface obtained by a simplicial interpretation of the \textit{Tonnetz}. The…

Sound · Computer Science 2016-02-03 Mattia G. Bergomi , Adriano Baraté , Barbara Di Fabio

The fidelity with which neural networks can now generate content such as music presents a scientific opportunity: these systems appear to have learned implicit theories of such content's structure through statistical learning alone. This…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Nikhil Singh , Manuel Cherep , Pattie Maes

This study examines pitch contours as a unifying semantic construct prevalent across various audio domains including music, speech, bioacoustics, and everyday sounds. Analyzing pitch contours offers insights into the universal role of pitch…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-26 Jakob Abeßer , Simon Schwär , Meinard Müller

The goal of this work is to train discriminative cross-modal embeddings without access to manually annotated data. Recent advances in self-supervised learning have shown that effective representations can be learnt from natural cross-modal…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Soo-Whan Chung , Hong Goo Kang , Joon Son Chung