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A flexible recommendation and retrieval system requires music similarity in terms of multiple partial elements of musical pieces to allow users to select the element they want to focus on. A method for music similarity learning using…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Yuka Hashizume , Li Li , Atsushi Miyashita , Tomoki Toda

In recent years, research on music transcription has focused mainly on architecture design and instrument-specific data acquisition. With the lack of availability of diverse datasets, progress is often limited to solo-instrument tasks such…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-25 Frank Cwitkowitz , Kin Wai Cheuk , Woosung Choi , Marco A. Martínez-Ramírez , Keisuke Toyama , Wei-Hsiang Liao , Yuki Mitsufuji

In this study an Artificial Neural Network was trained to classify musical instruments, using audio samples transformed to the frequency domain. Different features of the sound, in both time and frequency domain, were analyzed and compared…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Babak Toghiani-Rizi , Marcus Windmark

Timbre is a set of perceptual attributes that identifies different types of sound sources. Although its definition is usually elusive, it can be seen from a signal processing viewpoint as all the spectral features that are perceived…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-14 Adrien Bitton , Philippe Esling , Tatsuya Harada

Current models for audio--sheet music retrieval via multimodal embedding space learning use convolutional neural networks with a fixed-size window for the input audio. Depending on the tempo of a query performance, this window captures more…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Matthias Dorfer , Jan Hajič , Gerhard Widmer

In this article, we investigate the notion of model-based deep learning in the realm of music information research (MIR). Loosely speaking, we refer to the term model-based deep learning for approaches that combine traditional…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-18 Gael Richard , Vincent Lostanlen , Yi-Hsuan Yang , Meinard Müller

Existing multi-timbre transcription models struggle with generalization beyond pre-trained instruments, rigid source-count constraints, and high computational demands that hinder deployment on low-resource devices. We address these…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Ruigang Li , Yongxu Zhu

Musical features and descriptors could be coarsely divided into three levels of complexity. The bottom level contains the basic building blocks of music, e.g., chords, beats and timbre. The middle level contains concepts that emerge from…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-06-14 Anna Aljanaki , Mohammad Soleymani

Sound Event Detection and Audio Classification tasks are traditionally addressed through time-frequency representations of audio signals such as spectrograms. However, the emergence of deep neural networks as efficient feature extractors…

In this study, we train deep neural networks to classify composer on a symbolic domain. The model takes a two-channel two-dimensional input, i.e., onset and note activations of time-pitch representation, which is converted from MIDI…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Sunghyeon Kim , Hyeyoon Lee , Sunjong Park , Jinho Lee , Keunwoo Choi

Connecting large libraries of digitized audio recordings to their corresponding sheet music images has long been a motivation for researchers to develop new cross-modal retrieval systems. In recent years, retrieval systems based on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Stefan Balke , Matthias Dorfer , Luis Carvalho , Andreas Arzt , Gerhard Widmer

This paper introduces a new large-scale music dataset, MusicNet, to serve as a source of supervision and evaluation of machine learning methods for music research. MusicNet consists of hundreds of freely-licensed classical music recordings…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-04-07 John Thickstun , Zaid Harchaoui , Sham Kakade

Optical Music Recognition (OMR) is an important technology within Music Information Retrieval. Deep learning models show promising results on OMR tasks, but symbol-level annotated data sets of sufficient size to train such models are not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Eelco van der Wel , Karen Ullrich

Audio classification is considered as a challenging problem in pattern recognition. Recently, many algorithms have been proposed using deep neural networks. In this paper, we introduce a new attention-based neural network architecture…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-18 Haoye Lu , Haolong Zhang , Amit Nayak

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

Timbre is a primary mode of expression in diverse musical contexts. However, prevalent audio-driven synthesis methods predominantly rely on pitch and loudness envelopes, effectively flattening timbral expression from the input. Our approach…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Jordie Shier , Charalampos Saitis , Andrew Robertson , Andrew McPherson

Despite the innovations in deep learning and generative AI, creating long term structure as well as the layers of repeated structure common in musical works remains an open challenge in music generation. We propose an attention layer that…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Sophia Hager , Kathleen Hablutzel , Katherine M. Kinnaird

Multi-pitch estimation is a decades-long research problem involving the detection of pitch activity associated with concurrent musical events within multi-instrument mixtures. Supervised learning techniques have demonstrated solid…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-27 Frank Cwitkowitz , Zhiyao Duan

Instrument classification is one of the fields in Music Information Retrieval (MIR) that has attracted a lot of research interest. However, the majority of that is dealing with monophonic music, while efforts on polyphonic material mainly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Agelos Kratimenos , Kleanthis Avramidis , Christos Garoufis , Athanasia Zlatintsi , Petros Maragos

This paper addresses the challenges posed by the unstructured nature and high-dimensional semantic complexity of electronic health record texts. A deep learning method based on attention mechanisms is proposed to achieve unified modeling…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Ting Xu , Xiaoxiao Deng , Xiandong Meng , Haifeng Yang , Yan Wu