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Recent advancements in machine learning and adaptive cognitive systems are driving a growing demand for large and richly annotated multimodal data. A prominent example of this trend are fusion models, which increasingly incorporate multiple…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Rathi Adarshi Rammohan , Moritz Meier , Dennis Küster , Tanja Schultz

Music prediction tasks range from predicting tags given a song or clip of audio, predicting the name of the artist, or predicting related songs given a song, clip, artist name or tag. That is, we are interested in every semantic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Jason Weston , Samy Bengio , Philippe Hamel

This study examines textual, user-written search queries within the context of sound search engines, encompassing various applications such as foley, sound effects, and general audio retrieval. Current research inadequately addresses…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Benno Weck , Frederic Font

The NLP community has long advocated for the construction of multi-annotator datasets to better capture the nuances of language interpretation, subjectivity, and ambiguity. This paper conducts a retrospective study to show how performance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Pritam Kadasi , Mayank Singh

Recent advances in AI-based music generation have focused heavily on text-conditioned models, with less attention given to reference-based generation such as song adaptation. To support this line of research, we introduce LargeSHS, a…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Chih-Pin Tan , Hsuan-Kai Kao , Li Su , Yi-Hsuan Yang

High-quality video datasets are foundational for training robust models in tasks like action recognition, phase detection, and event segmentation. However, many real-world video datasets suffer from annotation errors such as *mislabeling*,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Praditha Alwis , Soumyadeep Chandra , Deepak Ravikumar , Kaushik Roy

Leaderboards are crucial in the machine learning (ML) domain for benchmarking and tracking progress. However, creating leaderboards traditionally demands significant manual effort. In recent years, efforts have been made to automate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Roelien C. Timmer , Necva Bölücü , Stephen Wan

Our goal is to collect a large-scale audio-visual dataset with low label noise from videos in the wild using computer vision techniques. The resulting dataset can be used for training and evaluating audio recognition models. We make three…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-28 Honglie Chen , Weidi Xie , Andrea Vedaldi , Andrew Zisserman

Music mixing traditionally involves recording instruments in the form of clean, individual tracks and blending them into a final mixture using audio effects and expert knowledge (e.g., a mixing engineer). The automation of music production…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-30 Marco A. Martínez-Ramírez , Wei-Hsiang Liao , Giorgio Fabbro , Stefan Uhlich , Chihiro Nagashima , Yuki Mitsufuji

Loops, seamlessly repeatable musical segments, are a cornerstone of modern music production. Contemporary artists often mix and match various sampled or pre-recorded loops based on musical criteria such as rhythm, harmony and timbral…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Pritish Chandna , António Ramires , Xavier Serra , Emilia Gómez

The advancement of machine learning in audio analysis has opened new possibilities for technology-enhanced music education. This paper introduces a framework for automatic singing mistake detection in the context of music pedagogy,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-09 Sumit Kumar , Suraj Jaiswal , Parampreet Singh , Vipul Arora

Accurate detection of disfluencies in spoken language is crucial for enhancing the performance of automatic speech and language processing systems, as well as fostering the development of more inclusive speech and language technologies.…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Duygu Altinok

We present the Noisy Ostracods, a noisy dataset for genus and species classification of crustacean ostracods with specialists' annotations. Over the 71466 specimens collected, 5.58% of them are estimated to be noisy (possibly problematic)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Jiamian Hu , Yuanyuan Hong , Yihua Chen , He Wang , Moriaki Yasuhara

Supervised machine learning often requires human-annotated data. While annotator disagreement is typically interpreted as evidence of noise, population-level label distribution learning (PLDL) treats the collection of annotations for each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Tharindu Cyril Weerasooriya , Tong Liu , Christopher M. Homan

The labelling of speech corpora is a laborious and time-consuming process. The ProsoBeast Annotation Tool seeks to ease and accelerate this process by providing an interactive 2D representation of the prosodic landscape of the data, in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-16 Branislav Gerazov , Michael Wagner

We present a free and open-source tool for creating web-based surveys that include text annotation tasks. Existing tools offer either text annotation or survey functionality but not both. Combining the two input types is particularly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Timo Spinde , Kanishka Sinha , Norman Meuschke , Bela Gipp

This paper introduces the jazznet Dataset, a dataset of fundamental jazz piano music patterns for developing machine learning (ML) algorithms in music information retrieval (MIR). The dataset contains 162520 labeled piano patterns,…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-02-20 Tosiron Adegbija

High quality labeled datasets have allowed deep learning to achieve impressive results on many sound analysis tasks. Yet, it is labor-intensive to accurately annotate large amount of audio data, and the dataset may contain noisy labels in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-17 Boqing Zhu , Kele Xu , Qiuqiang Kong , Huaimin Wang , Yuxing Peng

Popular music is often composed of an accompaniment and a lead component, the latter typically consisting of vocals. Filtering such mixtures to extract one or both components has many applications, such as automatic karaoke and remixing.…

Strong labels are a necessity for evaluation of sound event detection methods, but often scarcely available due to the high resources required by the annotation task. We present a method for estimating strong labels using crowdsourced weak…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-27 Irene Martín-Morató , Manu Harju , Annamaria Mesaros