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We present a new system for simultaneous estimation of keys, chords, and bass notes from music audio. It makes use of a novel chromagram representation of audio that takes perception of loudness into account. Furthermore, it is fully based…

Sound · Computer Science 2011-07-26 Yizhao Ni , Matt Mcvicar , Raul Santos-Rodriguez , Tijl De Bie

We present the Melody-Guided Music Generation (MG2) model, a novel approach using melody to guide the text-to-music generation that, despite a simple method and limited resources, achieves excellent performance. Specifically, we first align…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Shaopeng Wei , Manzhen Wei , Haoyu Wang , Yu Zhao , Gang Kou

This paper presents a novel rule-based approach for generating music by varying existing tunes. We parse each tune to find the Pathway Assembly (PA) [ 1], that is a structure representing all repetitions in the tune. The Sequitur algorithm…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Maziar Kanani , Sean O Leary , James McDermott

Music is an inherently social activity that allows people to share experiences and feel connected with one another. There has been little progress in designing artificial partners exhibiting a similar social experience as playing with…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Dobromir Dotov , Dante Camarena , Zack Harris , Joanna Spyra , Pietro Gagliano , Laurel Trainor

This paper addresses the matching of short music audio snippets to the corresponding pixel location in images of sheet music. A system is presented that simultaneously learns to read notes, listens to music and matches the currently played…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-16 Matthias Dorfer , Andreas Arzt , Gerhard Widmer

In fine art, especially painting, humans have mastered the skill to create unique visual experiences through composing a complex interplay between the content and style of an image. Thus far the algorithmic basis of this process is unknown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-09-03 Leon A. Gatys , Alexander S. Ecker , Matthias Bethge

At present, neural network-based models, including transformers, struggle to generate memorable and readily comprehensible music from unified and repetitive musical material due to a lack of understanding of musical structure. Consequently,…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Shangxuan Luo , Joshua Reiss

Writing rap lyrics requires both creativity to construct a meaningful, interesting story and lyrical skills to produce complex rhyme patterns, which form the cornerstone of good flow. We present a rap lyrics generation method that captures…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-06-13 Eric Malmi , Pyry Takala , Hannu Toivonen , Tapani Raiko , Aristides Gionis

Melody harmonization has long been closely associated with chorales composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. Previous works rarely emphasised chorale generation conditioned on chord progressions, and there has been a lack of focus on assistive…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Shangda Wu , Xiaobing Li , Maosong Sun

Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic models have emerged as simple yet very powerful generative models. Unlike other generative models, diffusion models do not suffer from mode collapse or require a discriminator to generate high-quality…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Lilac Atassi

We propose a novel approach for the generation of polyphonic music based on LSTMs. We generate music in two steps. First, a chord LSTM predicts a chord progression based on a chord embedding. A second LSTM then generates polyphonic music…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-11-22 Gino Brunner , Yuyi Wang , Roger Wattenhofer , Jonas Wiesendanger

The performance of approaches to Music Instrument Classification, a popular task in Music Information Retrieval, is often impacted and limited by the lack of availability of annotated data for training. We propose to address this issue with…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Hsin-Hung Chen , Alexander Lerch

This paper proposes a novel Transformer-based model for music score infilling, to generate a music passage that fills in the gap between given past and future contexts. While existing infilling approaches can generate a passage that…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Chih-Pin Tan , Alvin W. Y. Su , Yi-Hsuan Yang

Autoregressive generative transformers are key in music generation, producing coherent compositions but facing challenges in human-machine collaboration. We propose RefinPaint, an iterative technique that improves the sampling process. It…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Pedro Ramoneda , Martin Rocamora , Taketo Akama

Music recommender systems frequently utilize network-based models to capture relationships between music pieces, artists, and users. Although these relationships provide valuable insights for predictions, new music pieces or artists often…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Florian Grötschla , Luca Strässle , Luca A. Lanzendörfer , Roger Wattenhofer

Analogy-making is a key method for computer algorithms to generate both natural and creative music pieces. In general, an analogy is made by partially transferring the music abstractions, i.e., high-level representations and their…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Ruihan Yang , Dingsu Wang , Ziyu Wang , Tianyao Chen , Junyan Jiang , Gus Xia

This study explores the extent to which deep learning models can predict groove and its related perceptual dimensions directly from audio signals. We critically examine the effectiveness of seven state-of-the-art deep learning models in…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Axel Marmoret , Nicolas Farrugia , Jan Alexander Stupacher

With the rapid advancement of generative audio models, distinguishing between human-composed and generated music is becoming increasingly challenging. As a response, models for detecting fake music have been proposed. In this work, we…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Tomasz Sroka , Tomasz Wężowicz , Dominik Sidorczuk , Mateusz Modrzejewski

Algorithmic composition is the partial or total automation of the process of music composition by using computers. Since the 1950s, different computational techniques related to Artificial Intelligence have been used for algorithmic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-02-05 Jose David Fernandez , Francisco Vico

We introduce a film score generation framework to harmonize visual pixels and music melodies utilizing a latent diffusion model. Our framework processes film clips as input and generates music that aligns with a general theme while offering…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-11-13 F. Qi , L. Ni , C. Xu