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We introduce the Latent Fourier Transform (LatentFT), a framework that provides novel frequency-domain controls for generative music models. LatentFT combines a diffusion autoencoder with a latent-space Fourier transform to separate musical…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Mason Wang , Cheng-Zhi Anna Huang

This paper presents CQT-Diff, a data-driven generative audio model that can, once trained, be used for solving various different audio inverse problems in a problem-agnostic setting. CQT-Diff is a neural diffusion model with an architecture…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-21 Eloi Moliner , Jaakko Lehtinen , Vesa Välimäki

Given recent advances in deep music source separation, we propose a feature representation method that combines source separation with a state-of-the-art representation learning technique that is suitably repurposed for computer audition…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Gabriel Mersy , Jin Hong Kuan

With the emergence of GAN-based vocoders, the discriminator, as a crucial component, has been developed recently. In our work, we focus on improving the time-frequency based discriminator. Particularly, Short-Time Fourier Transform (STFT)…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-04 Nan Xu , Zhaolong Huang , Xiao Zeng

Despite phenomenal progress in recent years, state-of-the-art music separation systems produce source estimates with significant perceptual shortcomings, such as adding extraneous noise or removing harmonics. We propose a post-processing…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Noah Schaffer , Boaz Cogan , Ethan Manilow , Max Morrison , Prem Seetharaman , Bryan Pardo

Audio source separation aims to separate a mixture into target sources. Previous audio source separation systems usually conduct one-step inference, which does not fully explore the separation ability of models. In this work, we reveal that…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Yongyi Zang , Jingyi Li , Qiuqiang Kong

We propose to combine cepstrum and nonlinear time-frequency (TF) analysis to study mutiple component oscillatory signals with time-varying frequency and amplitude and with time-varying non-sinusoidal oscillatory pattern. The concept of…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2016-11-23 Chen-Yun Lin , Li Su , Hau-tieng Wu

State-of-the-art end-to-end Optical Music Recognition (OMR) has, to date, primarily been carried out using monophonic transcription techniques to handle complex score layouts, such as polyphony, often by resorting to simplifications or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Antonio Ríos-Vila , Jorge Calvo-Zaragoza , Thierry Paquet

Modern audio source separation techniques rely on optimizing sequence model architectures such as, 1D-CNNs, on mixture recordings to generalize well to unseen mixtures. Specifically, recent focus is on time-domain based architectures such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Vivek Sivaraman Narayanaswamy , Sameeksha Katoch , Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan , Huan Song , Andreas Spanias

We study the problem of separating audio sources from a single linear mixture. The goal is to find a decomposition of the single channel spectrogram into a sum of individual contributions associated to a certain number of sources. In this…

Sound · Computer Science 2012-12-14 Augustin Lefèvre , François Glineur , P. -A. Absil

Quantum computing is emerging as an alternative computing technology, which is built on the principles of subatomic physics. In spite of continuing progress in developing increasingly more sophisticated hardware and software, access to…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Eduardo R. Miranda

Analogy-making is a key method for computer algorithms to generate both natural and creative music pieces. In general, an analogy is made by partially transferring the music abstractions, i.e., high-level representations and their…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Ruihan Yang , Dingsu Wang , Ziyu Wang , Tianyao Chen , Junyan Jiang , Gus Xia

We extend frequency-domain blind source separation based on independent vector analysis to the case where there are more microphones than sources. The signal is modelled as non-Gaussian sources in a Gaussian background. The proposed…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-08-08 Robin Scheibler , Nobutaka Ono

Deep learning-based music source separation has gained a lot of interest in the last decades. Most of the existing methods operate with either spectrograms or waveforms. Spectrogram based models learn suitable masks for separating magnitude…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-10 Chin-Yun Yu , Kin-Wai Cheuk

Music exists in various modalities, such as score images, symbolic scores, MIDI, and audio. Translations between each modality are established as core tasks of music information retrieval, such as automatic music transcription…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Jongmin Jung , Dongmin Kim , Sihun Lee , Seola Cho , Hyungjoon Soh , Irmak Bukey , Chris Donahue , Dasaem Jeong

We propose Beat Transformer, a novel Transformer encoder architecture for joint beat and downbeat tracking. Different from previous models that track beats solely based on the spectrogram of an audio mixture, our model deals with demixed…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Jingwei Zhao , Gus Xia , Ye Wang

An alternative approach to ultrasound computed tomography (USCT) for medical imaging is proposed, with the intent to (i) shorten acquisition time for devices with a large number of emitters, (ii) eliminate the calibration step, and (iii)…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-01-25 Ines Elisa Ulrich , Christian Boehm , Andrea Zunino , Cyrill Bösch , Andreas Fichtner

In fluorescence microscopy, spectral unmixing aims to recover individual fluorophore concentrations from spectral images that capture mixed fluorophore emissions. Since classical methods operate pixel-wise and rely on least-squares fitting,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Federico Carrara , Talley Lambert , Mehdi Seifi , Florian Jug

This report describes the system submitted to the music source restoration (MSR) Challenge 2025. Our approach is composed of sequential BS-RoFormers, each dealing with a single task including music source separation (MSS), denoise and…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Jinxuan Zhu , Hao Qiu , Haina Zhu , Jianwei Yu , Kai Yu , Xie Chen

Blind Source Separation (BSS) is a challenging matrix factorization problem that plays a central role in multichannel imaging science. In a large number of applications, such as astrophysics, current unmixing methods are limited since…

Applications · Statistics 2017-11-22 Ming Jiang , Jérôme Bobin , Jean-Luc Starck