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We propose a knowledge-driven, model-based approach to segmenting audio into single-category and mixed-category chunks with applications to source separation. "Knowledge" here denotes information associated with the data, such as music…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-26 Chun-wei Ho , Sabato Marco Siniscalchi , Kai Li , Chin-Hui Lee

Audio-to-score alignment (A2SA) is a multimodal task consisting in the alignment of audio signals to music scores. Recent literature confirms the benefits of Automatic Music Transcription (AMT) for A2SA at the frame-level. In this work, we…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Federico Simonetta , Stavros Ntalampiras , Federico Avanzini

Audio-based music structure analysis (MSA) is an essential task in Music Information Retrieval that remains challenging due to the complexity and variability of musical form. Recent advances highlight the potential of fine-tuning…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Yixiao Zhang , Haonan Chen , Ju-Chiang Wang , Jitong Chen

At present, neural network-based models, including transformers, struggle to generate memorable and readily comprehensible music from unified and repetitive musical material due to a lack of understanding of musical structure. Consequently,…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Shangxuan Luo , Joshua Reiss

Audio-to-score alignment aims at generating an accurate mapping between a performance audio and the score of a given piece. Standard alignment methods are based on Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) and employ handcrafted features, which cannot be…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Ruchit Agrawal , 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

Music creation is typically composed of two parts: composing the musical score, and then performing the score with instruments to make sounds. While recent work has made much progress in automatic music generation in the symbolic domain,…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Bryan Wang , Yi-Hsuan Yang

Could we automatically derive the score of a piano accompaniment based on the audio of a pop song? This is the audio-to-symbolic arrangement problem we tackle in this paper. A good arrangement model should not only consider the audio…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Ziyu Wang , Dejing Xu , Gus Xia , Ying Shan

Dilated convolution with learnable spacings (DCLS) is a recent convolution method in which the positions of the kernel elements are learned throughout training by backpropagation. Its interest has recently been demonstrated in computer…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Ismail Khalfaoui-Hassani , Timothée Masquelier , Thomas Pellegrini

Music segmentation refers to the dual problem of identifying boundaries between, and labeling, distinct music segments, e.g., the chorus, verse, bridge etc. in popular music. The performance of a range of music segmentation algorithms has…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Matthew C. McCallum

This paper discusses real-time alignment of audio signals of music performance to the corresponding score (a.k.a. score following) which can handle tempo changes, errors and arbitrary repeats and/or skips (repeats/skips) in performances.…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Tomohiko Nakamura , Eita Nakamura , Shigeki Sagayama

We present in this paper PerformacnceNet, a neural network model we proposed recently to achieve score-to-audio music generation. The model learns to convert a music piece from the symbolic domain to the audio domain, assigning…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-05-29 Yu-Hua Chen , Bryan Wang , Yi-Hsuan Yang

Identifying musical instruments in polyphonic music recordings is a challenging but important problem in the field of music information retrieval. It enables music search by instrument, helps recognize musical genres, or can make music…

Sound · Computer Science 2016-12-28 Yoonchang Han , Jaehun Kim , Kyogu Lee

Music performance synthesis aims to synthesize a musical score into a natural performance. In this paper, we borrow recent advances in text-to-speech synthesis and present the Deep Performer -- a novel system for score-to-audio music…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Hao-Wen Dong , Cong Zhou , Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick , Julian McAuley

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been actively adopted in the field of music information retrieval, e.g. genre classification, mood detection, and chord recognition. However, the process of learning and prediction is little…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-07-11 Keunwoo Choi , George Fazekas , Mark Sandler

Direction of arrival (DoA) estimation is a common sensing problem in radar, sonar, audio, and wireless communication systems. It has gained renewed importance with the advent of the integrated sensing and communication paradigm. To fully…

We study cross-modal recommendation of music tracks to be used as soundtracks for videos. This problem is known as the music supervision task. We build on a self-supervised system that learns a content association between music and video.…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Laure Prétet , Gaël Richard , Clément Souchier , Geoffroy Peeters

In this demo we show a novel approach to score following. Instead of relying on some symbolic representation, we are using a multi-modal convolutional neural network to match the incoming audio stream directly to sheet music images. This…

Sound · Computer Science 2016-12-16 Matthias Dorfer , Andreas Arzt , Sebastian Böck , Amaury Durand , Gerhard Widmer

Little research focuses on cross-modal correlation learning where temporal structures of different data modalities such as audio and lyrics are taken into account. Stemming from the characteristic of temporal structures of music in nature,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-11-30 Yi Yu , Suhua Tang , Francisco Raposo , Lei Chen

In this article we explore how the different semantics of spectrograms' time and frequency axes can be exploited for musical tempo and key estimation using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN). By addressing both tasks with the same network…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-03-27 Hendrik Schreiber , Meinard Müller