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Automatic Music Transcription, which consists in transforming an audio recording of a musical performance into symbolic format, remains a difficult Music Information Retrieval task. In this work, which focuses on piano transcription, we…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Haoran Wu , Axel Marmoret , Jérémy E. Cohen

Advances in neural network design and the availability of large-scale labeled datasets have driven major improvements in piano transcription. Existing approaches target either offline applications, with no restrictions on computational…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-10 Patricia Hu , Silvan David Peter , Jan Schlüter , Gerhard Widmer

Automatic drum transcription, a subtask of the more general automatic music transcription, deals with extracting drum instrument note onsets from an audio source. Recently, progress in transcription performance has been made using…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-10-04 Richard Vogl , Gerhard Widmer , Peter Knees

Automatic Music Transcription (AMT) has been recognized as a key enabling technology with a wide range of applications. Given the task's complexity, best results have typically been reported for systems focusing on specific settings, e.g.…

Capturing intricate and subtle variations in human expressiveness in music performance using computational approaches is challenging. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for reconstructing human expressiveness in piano performance…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Jingjing Tang , Geraint Wiggins , Gyorgy Fazekas

Given a musical audio recording, the goal of automatic music transcription is to determine a score-like representation of the piece underlying the recording. Despite significant interest within the research community, several studies have…

Sound · Computer Science 2016-09-05 Sebastian Ewert , Mark Sandler

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

We present an automatic piano transcription system that converts polyphonic audio recordings into musical scores. This has been a long-standing problem of music information processing, and recent studies have made remarkable progress in the…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Kentaro Shibata , Eita Nakamura , Kazuyoshi Yoshii

This paper presents a statistical method for use in music transcription that can estimate score times of note onsets and offsets from polyphonic MIDI performance signals. Because performed note durations can deviate largely from…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-07-10 Eita Nakamura , Kazuyoshi Yoshii , Simon Dixon

This paper investigates automatic piano transcription based on computationally-efficient yet high-performant variants of the Transformer that can capture longer-term dependency over the whole musical piece. Recently, transformer-based…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Weixing Wei , Kazuyoshi Yoshii

In training a deep learning system to perform audio transcription, two practical problems may arise. Firstly, most datasets are weakly labelled, having only a list of events present in each recording without any temporal information for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-12 Veronica Morfi , Dan Stowell

We investigate the problem of modeling symbolic sequences of polyphonic music in a completely general piano-roll representation. We introduce a probabilistic model based on distribution estimators conditioned on a recurrent neural network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-03 Nicolas Boulanger-Lewandowski , Yoshua Bengio , Pascal Vincent

Multi-instrument music transcription aims to convert polyphonic music recordings into musical scores assigned to each instrument. This task is challenging for modeling as it requires simultaneously identifying multiple instruments and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-02 Sungkyun Chang , Emmanouil Benetos , Holger Kirchhoff , Simon Dixon

This paper describes a streaming audio-to-MIDI piano transcription approach that aims to sequentially translate a music signal into a sequence of note onset and offset events. The sequence-to-sequence nature of this task may call for the…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Weixing Wei , Jiahao Zhao , Yulun Wu , Kazuyoshi Yoshii

Fundamental frequency (f0) estimation from polyphonic music includes the tasks of multiple-f0, melody, vocal, and bass line estimation. Historically these problems have been approached separately, and only recently, using learning-based…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Rachel M. Bittner , Brian McFee , Juan P. Bello

This paper describes a novel paradigm that formalizes automatic piano transcription (APT) as an optimal transport (OT) problem, not as a frame-level multi-label binary classification problem. Our method learns to minimize the cost of…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Weixing Wei , Raynaldi Lalang , Dichucheng Li , Kazuyoshi Yoshii

While piano music transcription models have shown high performance for solo piano recordings, their performance degrades when applied to ensemble recordings. This study aims to analyze the impact of different data augmentation methods on…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Hyemi Kim , Jiyun Park , Taegyun Kwon , Dasaem Jeong , Juhan Nam

Automatic note-level transcription is considered one of the most challenging tasks in music information retrieval. The specific case of flamenco singing transcription poses a particular challenge due to its complex melodic progressions,…

Sound · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Nadine Kroher , Emilia Gómez

Automatic Music Transcription has seen significant progress in recent years by training custom deep neural networks on large datasets. However, these models have required extensive domain-specific design of network architectures,…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Curtis Hawthorne , Ian Simon , Rigel Swavely , Ethan Manilow , Jesse Engel

Background music affects lyrics intelligibility of singing vocals in a music piece. Automatic lyrics alignment and transcription in polyphonic music are challenging tasks because the singing vocals are corrupted by the background music. In…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-23 Chitralekha Gupta , Emre Yılmaz , Haizhou Li