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Multi-instrument Automatic Music Transcription (AMT), or the decoding of a musical recording into semantic musical content, is one of the holy grails of Music Information Retrieval. Current AMT approaches are restricted to piano and (some)…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Ben Maman , Amit H. Bermano

MIDI performances are generally expedient in performance research and music information retrieval, and even more so if they can be connected to a score. This connection is usually established by means of alignment, linking either notes or…

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

We propose an efficient workflow for high-quality offline alignment of in-the-wild performance audio and corresponding sheet music scans (images). Recent work on audio-to-score alignment extends dynamic time warping (DTW) to be…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Irmak Bukey , Michael Feffer , Chris Donahue

In the domain of Music Information Retrieval (MIR), Automatic Music Transcription (AMT) emerges as a central challenge, aiming to convert audio signals into symbolic notations like musical notes or sheet music. This systematic review…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Fatemeh Jamshidi , Gary Pike , Amit Das , Richard Chapman

This paper addresses the problem of sheet-image-based on-line audio-to-score alignment also known as score following. Drawing inspiration from object detection, a conditional neural network architecture is proposed that directly predicts…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Florian Henkel , Gerhard Widmer

Real-time tracking of the position of a musical performance on a musical score, i.e. score following, can be useful in music practice, performance and production. Example applications of such technology include computer-aided accompaniment…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Lin Hao Lee

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

In recent years, thanks to advances in automatic music transcription (AMT), several large-scale datasets of automatically transcribed piano solo music have been released. While these datasets undoubtedly offer extensive material for…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Patricia Hu , Silvan Peter , Gerhard Widmer

Most work on musical score models (a.k.a. musical language models) for music transcription has focused on describing the local sequential dependence of notes in musical scores and failed to capture their global repetitive structure, which…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Eita Nakamura , Kazuyoshi Yoshii

Many methods for automatic music transcription involves a multi-pitch estimation method that estimates an activity score for each pitch. A second processing step, called note segmentation, has to be performed for each pitch in order to…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-05-01 Dorian Cazau , Yuancheng Wang , Olivier Adam , Qiao Wang , Grégory Nuel

Lyrics alignment in long music recordings can be memory exhaustive when performed in a single pass. In this study, we present a novel method that performs audio-to-lyrics alignment with a low memory consumption footprint regardless of the…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Emir Demirel , Sven Ahlbäck , Simon Dixon

This Thesis discusses the development of technologies for the automatic resynthesis of music recordings using digital synthesizers. First, the main issue is identified in the understanding of how Music Information Processing (MIP) methods…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Federico Simonetta

Symbolic Music Alignment is the process of matching performed MIDI notes to corresponding score notes. In this paper, we introduce a reinforcement learning (RL)-based online symbolic music alignment technique. The RL agent - an…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Silvan David Peter

The identification of structural differences between a music performance and the score is a challenging yet integral step of audio-to-score alignment, an important subtask of music information retrieval. We present a novel method to detect…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Ruchit Agrawal , Daniel Wolff , Simon Dixon

This study introduces RUMAA, a transformer-based framework for music performance analysis that unifies score-to-performance alignment, score-informed transcription, and mistake detection in a near end-to-end manner. Unlike prior methods…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Sungkyun Chang , Simon Dixon , Emmanouil Benetos

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

Generating music that temporally aligns with video events is challenging for existing text-to-music models, which lack fine-grained temporal control. We introduce V2M-ZERO, a video-to-music generation approach that generates time-aligned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Yan-Bo Lin , Jonah Casebeer , Long Mai , Aniruddha Mahapatra , Gedas Bertasius , Nicholas J. Bryan

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

Automatic Music Transcription (AMT), aiming to get musical notes from raw audio, typically uses frame-level systems with piano-roll outputs or language model (LM)-based systems with note-level predictions. However, frame-level systems…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Dichucheng Li , Yongyi Zang , Qiuqiang Kong

Real-time music alignment, also known as score following, is a fundamental MIR task with a long history and is essential for many interactive applications. Despite its importance, there has not been a unified open framework for comparing…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Jiyun Park , Carlos Cancino-Chacón , Suhit Chiruthapudi , Juhan Nam