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Unsupervised methods, such as wav2vec2 and HuBERT, have achieved state-of-the-art performance in audio tasks, leading to a shift away from research on interpretable features. However, the lack of interpretability in these methods limits…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-07 Yacouba Kaloga , Ina Kodrasi

Music motif, as a conceptual building block of composition, is crucial for music structure analysis and automatic composition. While human listeners can identify motifs easily, existing computational models fall short in representing motifs…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Yuxuan Wu , Roger B. Dannenberg , Gus Xia

This work was developed aiming to employ Statistical techniques to the field of Music Emotion Recognition, a well-recognized area within the Signal Processing world, but hardly explored from the statistical point of view. Here, we opened…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-07-13 Nathalie Deziderio , Hugo Tremonte de Carvalho

Humans are able to comprehend information from multiple domains for e.g. speech, text and visual. With advancement of deep learning technology there has been significant improvement of speech recognition. Recognizing emotion from speech is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-16 Mandeep Singh , Yuan Fang

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

Studies in the area of neuroscience have revealed the relationship between emotional patterns and brain functional regions, demonstrating that dynamic relationships between different brain regions are an essential factor affecting emotion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Yijin Zhou , Fu Li , Yang Li , Youshuo Ji , Guangming Shi , Wenming Zheng , Lijian Zhang , Yuanfang Chen , Rui Cheng

Any data annotation for subjective tasks shows potential variations between individuals. This is particularly true for annotations of emotional responses to musical stimuli. While older approaches to music emotion recognition systems…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Karn N. Watcharasupat , Yiwei Ding , T. Aleksandra Ma , Pavan Seshadri , Alexander Lerch

Musical performance requires prediction to operate instruments, to perform in groups and to improvise. In this paper, we investigate how a number of digital musical instruments (DMIs), including two of our own, have applied predictive…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-12-21 Charles P. Martin , Kai Olav Ellefsen , Jim Torresen

Interpretability is essential for deploying deep learning models in symbolic music analysis, yet most research emphasizes model performance over explanation. To address this, we introduce MUSE-Explainer, a new method that helps reveal how…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Baptiste Hilaire , Emmanouil Karystinaios , Gerhard Widmer

Machine learning is the capacity of a computational system to learn structures from datasets in order to make predictions on newly seen data. Such an approach offers a significant advantage in music scenarios in which musicians can teach…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-11-03 Rebecca Fiebrink , Baptiste Caramiaux

High-level musical qualities (such as emotion) are often abstract, subjective, and hard to quantify. Given these difficulties, it is not easy to learn good feature representations with supervised learning techniques, either because of the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-31 Hao Hao Tan , Dorien Herremans

Recent advances have shown promise in emotion recognition from electroencephalogram (EEG) signals by employing bi-hemispheric neural architectures that incorporate neuroscientific priors into deep learning models. However, interpretability…

Deep learning is popular as an end-to-end framework extracting the prominent features and performing the classification also. In this paper, we extensively investigate deep networks as an alternate to feature encoding technique of low level…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Bhalaji Nagarajan , V Ramana Murthy Oruganti

Current recommendation systems often tend to overlook emotional context and rely on historical listening patterns or static mood tags. This paper introduces a novel music recommendation framework employing a variant of Wide and Deep…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Apoorva Chavali , Reeve Menezes

We explore the use of a neural network inspired by predictive coding for modeling human music perception. This network was developed based on the computational neuroscience theory of recurrent interactions in the hierarchical visual cortex.…

The goal of this study is to develop and analyze multimodal models for predicting experienced affective responses of viewers watching movie clips. We develop hybrid multimodal prediction models based on both the video and audio of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Ha Thi Phuong Thao , Dorien Herremans , Gemma Roig

The work of a single musician, group or composer can vary widely in terms of musical style. Indeed, different stylistic elements, from performance medium and rhythm to harmony and texture, are typically exploited and developed across an…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-12-11 Sergey Shuvaev , Hamza Giaffar , Alexei A. Koulakov

Emotion is an intricate physiological response that plays a crucial role in how we respond and cooperate with others in our daily affairs. Numerous experiments have been evolved to recognize emotion, however still require exploration to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Danastan Tasaouf Mridula , Abu Ahmed Ferdaus , Tanmoy Sarkar Pias

Music recommender systems play a critical role in music streaming platforms by providing users with music that they are likely to enjoy. Recent studies have shown that user emotions can influence users' preferences for music moods. However,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Erkang Jing , Yezheng Liu , Yidong Chai , Shuo Yu , Longshun Liu , Yuanchun Jiang , Yang Wang

A prominent theory of affective response to music revolves around the concepts of surprisal and expectation. In prior work, this idea has been operationalized in the form of probabilistic models of music which allow for precise computation…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Ninon Lizé Masclef , T. Anderson Keller