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We propose in this work a multi-view learning approach for audio and music classification. Considering four typical low-level representations (i.e. different views) commonly used for audio and music recognition tasks, the proposed…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Huy Phan , Huy Le Nguyen , Oliver Y. Chén , Lam Pham , Philipp Koch , Ian McLoughlin , Alfred Mertins

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

In this work, we investigate an approach that relies on contrastive learning and music metadata as a weak source of supervision to train music representation models. Recent studies show that contrastive learning can be used with editorial…

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

Experiencing images with suitable music can greatly enrich the overall user experience. The proposed image analysis method treats an artwork image differently from a photograph image. Automatic image classification is performed using…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Anant Baijal , Vivek Agarwal , Danny Hyun

Music representation learning is notoriously difficult for its complex human-related concepts contained in the sequence of numerical signals. To excavate better MUsic SEquence Representation from labeled audio, we propose a novel…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Tianyu Chen , Yuan Xie , Shuai Zhang , Shaohan Huang , Haoyi Zhou , Jianxin Li

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

In the domain of Music Information Retrieval (MIR), Automatic Music Transcription (AMT) emerges as a central challenge, aiming to convert audio signals into symbolic notations like musical notes or sheet music. This systematic review…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Fatemeh Jamshidi , Gary Pike , Amit Das , Richard Chapman

Music information is often conveyed or recorded across multiple data modalities including but not limited to audio, images, text and scores. However, music information retrieval research has almost exclusively focused on single modality…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Ho-Hsiang Wu , Magdalena Fuentes , Juan P. Bello

In the era of extensive intersection between art and Artificial Intelligence (AI), such as image generation and fiction co-creation, AI for music remains relatively nascent, particularly in music understanding. This is evident in the…

Music genre classification has been widely studied in past few years for its various applications in music information retrieval. Previous works tend to perform unsatisfactorily, since those methods only use audio content or jointly use…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Ganghui Ru , Xulong Zhang , Jianzong Wang , Ning Cheng , Jing Xiao

Classification involves the learning of the mapping function that associates input samples to corresponding target label. There are two major categories of classification problems: Single-label classification and Multi-label classification.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-09-06 Meng Joo Er , Rajasekar Venkatesan , Ning Wang

Current approaches for explaining deep learning systems applied to musical data provide results in a low-level feature space, e.g., by highlighting potentially relevant time-frequency bins in a spectrogram or time-pitch bins in a piano…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Francesco Foscarin , Katharina Hoedt , Verena Praher , Arthur Flexer , Gerhard Widmer

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

Music is characterized by aspects related to different modalities, such as the audio signal, the lyrics, or the music video clips. This has motivated the development of multimodal datasets and methods for Music Information Retrieval (MIR)…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Jonas Geiger , Marta Moscati , Shah Nawaz , Markus Schedl

Content creators often use music to enhance their videos, from soundtracks in movies to background music in video blogs and social media content. However, identifying the best music for a video can be a difficult and time-consuming task. To…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Shanti Stewart , Gouthaman KV , Lie Lu , Andrea Fanelli

Imbalanced music genre classification is a crucial task in the Music Information Retrieval (MIR) field for identifying the long-tail, data-poor genre based on the related music audio segments, which is very prevalent in real-world…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Xiaokai Liu , Menghua Zhang

Musical instrument classification is one of the focuses of Music Information Retrieval (MIR). In order to solve the problem of poor performance of current musical instrument classification models, we propose a musical instrument…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Yijie Liu , Yanfang Yin , Qigang Zhu , Wenzhuo Cui

Automated music playlist generation is a specific form of music recommendation. Generally stated, the user receives a set of song suggestions defining a coherent listening session. We hypothesize that the best way to convey such playlist…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-09-08 Andreu Vall , Hamid Eghbal-zadeh , Matthias Dorfer , Markus Schedl , Gerhard Widmer

This paper presents a comparative analysis of machine learning methodologies for automatic music genre classification. We evaluate the performance of classical classifiers, including Support Vector Machines (SVM) and ensemble methods,…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Alokit Mishra , Ryyan Akhtar