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Sixty participants provided dissimilarity ratings between various singing techniques. Multidimensional scaling, class averaging and clustering techniques were used to analyse timbral spaces and how they change between different singers,…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Brendan O'Connor , Simon Dixon , George Fazekas

In this paper, I have implemented a timbre visualization system called Tailors. Through the experiment with 27 MIR users, Tailors was found to be effective in conveying timbral warmth, brightness, depth, shallowness, hardness, roughness,…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-04-24 ChungHa Lee

We propose a novel neural network model for music signal processing using vector product neurons and dimensionality transformations. Here, the inputs are first mapped from real values into three-dimensional vectors then fed into a…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-06-30 Z. C. Fan , T. S. Chan , Y. H. Yang , J. S. R. Jang

Structure perception is a fundamental aspect of music cognition in humans. Historically, the hierarchical organization of music into structures served as a narrative device for conveying meaning, creating expectancy, and evoking emotions in…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Nicolas Lazzari , Andrea Poltronieri , Valentina Presutti

Embodied cognition states that semantics is encoded in the brain as firing patterns of neural circuits, which are learned according to the statistical structure of human multimodal experience. However, each human brain is idiosyncratically…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-06-28 Francisco Afonso Raposo , David Martins de Matos , Ricardo Ribeiro

This work aims to examine one of the cornerstone problems of Musical Instrument Retrieval (MIR), in particular, instrument classification. IRMAS (Instrument recognition in Musical Audio Signals) data set is chosen for this purpose. The data…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-23 Karthikeya Racharla , Vineet Kumar , Chaudhari Bhushan Jayant , Ankit Khairkar , Paturu Harish

In physics, timbre is a complex phenomenon, like color. Musical timbres are given by the superposition of sinusoidal signals, corresponding to longitudinal acoustic waves. Colors are produced by the superposition of transverse…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2022-12-26 Maria Mannone , Juan Sebastián Arias-Valero

Automated singing assessment is crucial for education and entertainment. However, existing systems face two fundamental limitations: reliance on reference tracks, which stifles creative expression, and the simplification of complex…

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

Understanding and manipulating timbre is central to audio synthesis, yet this remains under-explored in machine learning due to a lack of annotated datasets linking perceptual timbre dimensions to semantic descriptors. We present the…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Joseph Cameron , Alan Blackwell

The focus of this work is to study how to efficiently tailor Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) towards learning timbre representations from log-mel magnitude spectrograms. We first review the trends when designing CNN architectures.…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-06-05 Jordi Pons , Olga Slizovskaia , Rong Gong , Emilia Gómez , Xavier Serra

We have recently seen great progress in learning interpretable music representations, ranging from basic factors, such as pitch and timbre, to high-level concepts, such as chord and texture. However, most methods rely heavily on music…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Xuanjie Liu , Daniel Chin , Yichen Huang , Gus Xia

This research project investigates the application of deep learning to timbre transfer, where the timbre of a source audio can be converted to the timbre of a target audio with minimal loss in quality. The adopted approach combines…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Russell Sammut Bonnici , Charalampos Saitis , Martin Benning

Music classification between music made by AI or human composers can be done by deep learning networks. We first transformed music samples in midi format to natural language sequences, then classified these samples by mLSTM (multiplicative…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Yiting Xia , Yiwei Jiang , Tao Ye

The aim of this study is to teach an algorithm how to recognize different types of music. Users will submit songs for analysis. Since the algorithm hasn't heard these songs before, it needs to figure out what makes each song unique. It does…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Navin Kamuni , Dheerendra Panwar

The first voice timbre attribute detection challenge is featured in a special session at NCMMSC 2025. It focuses on the explainability of voice timbre and compares the intensity of two speech utterances in a specified timbre descriptor…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Liping Chen , Jinghao He , Zhengyan Sheng , Kong Aik Lee , Zhen-Hua Ling

Metaverse is an interactive world that combines reality and virtuality, where participants can be virtual avatars. Anyone can hold a concert in a virtual concert hall, and users can quickly identify the real singer behind the virtual idol…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Xulong Zhang , Jianzong Wang , Ning Cheng , Jing Xiao

Speaker recognition is an active research area that contains notable usage in biometric security and authentication system. Currently, there exist many well-performing models in the speaker recognition domain. However, most of the advanced…

Categorizing music files according to their genre is a challenging task in the area of music information retrieval (MIR). In this study, we compare the performance of two classes of models. The first is a deep learning approach wherein a…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-04-05 Hareesh Bahuleyan

Scientists have used many different classification methods to solve the problem of music classification. But the efficiency of each classification is different. In this paper, we propose two compared methods on the task of music style…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Lifeng Tan , Cong Jin , Zhiyuan Cheng , Xin Lv , Leiyu Song