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Melody extraction is a vital music information retrieval task among music researchers for its potential applications in education pedagogy and the music industry. Melody extraction is a notoriously challenging task due to the presence of…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-03 Gurunath Reddy M , K. Sreenivasa Rao , Partha Pratim Das

Generating music from text descriptions is a user-friendly mode since the text is a relatively easy interface for user engagement. While some approaches utilize texts to control music audio generation, editing musical elements in generated…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Peiling Lu , Xin Xu , Chenfei Kang , Botao Yu , Chengyi Xing , Xu Tan , Jiang Bian

Music Emotion Recognition involves the automatic identification of emotional elements within music tracks, and it has garnered significant attention due to its broad applicability in the field of Music Information Retrieval. It can also be…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Kexin Zhu , Xulong Zhang , Jianzong Wang , Ning Cheng , Jing Xiao

Self-supervised representation learning maps high-dimensional data into a meaningful embedding space, where samples of similar semantic contents are close to each other. Most of the recent representation learning methods maximize cosine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Chuang Niu , Ge Wang

In many musical traditions, the melody line is of primary significance in a piece. Human listeners can readily distinguish melodies from accompaniment; however, making this distinction given only the written score -- i.e. without listening…

Interpretability is essential for deploying deep learning models in symbolic music analysis, yet most research emphasizes model performance over explanation. To address this, we introduce MUSE-Explainer, a new method that helps reveal how…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Baptiste Hilaire , Emmanouil Karystinaios , Gerhard Widmer

Music is a mysterious language that conveys feeling and thoughts via different tones and timbre. For better understanding of timbre in music, we chose music data of 6 representative instruments, analysed their timbre features and classified…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Zishuo Zhao , Haoyun Wang

Towards improving the performance in various music information processing tasks, recent studies exploit different modalities able to capture diverse aspects of music. Such modalities include audio recordings, symbolic music scores,…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2019-02-15 Federico Simonetta , Stavros Ntalampiras , Federico Avanzini

Scientists have used many different classification methods to solve the problem of music classification. But the efficiency of each classification is different. In this paper, we propose two compared methods on the task of music style…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Lifeng Tan , Cong Jin , Zhiyuan Cheng , Xin Lv , Leiyu Song

Music similarity is an essential aspect of music retrieval, recommendation systems, and music analysis. Moreover, similarity is of vital interest for music experts, as it allows studying analogies and influences among composers and…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Andrea Poltronieri

Digital audio processing tools offer music researchers the opportunity to examine both non-notated music and music as performance. This chapter summarises the types of information that can be extracted from audio as well as currently…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Johanna Devaney

This paper presents an unsupervised machine learning algorithm that identifies recurring patterns -- referred to as ``music-words'' -- from symbolic music data. These patterns are fundamental to musical structure and reflect the cognitive…

Research on style transfer and domain translation has clearly demonstrated the ability of deep learning-based algorithms to manipulate images in terms of artistic style. More recently, several attempts have been made to extend such…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Ondřej Cífka , Umut Şimşekli , Gaël Richard

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have achieved remarkable visual reasoning abilities in natural images, text-rich documents, and graphic designs. However, their ability to interpret music sheets remains underexplored. To bridge this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Jian Chen , Wenye Ma , Penghang Liu , Wei Wang , Tengwei Song , Ming Li , Chenguang Wang , Jiayu Qin , Ruiyi Zhang , Changyou Chen

In this paper we have focused on an efficient feature selection method in classification of audio files. The main objective is feature selection and extraction. We have selected a set of features for further analysis, which represents the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-04-08 Jayita Mitra , Diganta Saha

Many music AI models learn a map between music content and human-defined labels. However, many annotations, such as chords, can be naturally expressed within the music modality itself, e.g., as sequences of symbolic notes. This observation…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Junyan Jiang , Daniel Chin , Liwei Lin , Xuanjie Liu , Gus Xia

During the past decades, to study high-dimensional data in a large variety of problems, researchers have proposed many Feature Extraction algorithms. One of the most effective approaches for optimal feature extraction is based on mutual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-17 Ali Shadvar

Symbolic music research plays a crucial role in music-related machine learning, but MIDI data can be complex for those without musical expertise. To address this issue, we present MidiTok Visualizer, a web application designed to facilitate…

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

Current methods for Music Structure Analysis (MSA) focus primarily on audio data. While symbolic music can be synthesized into audio and analyzed using existing MSA techniques, such an approach does not exploit symbolic music's rich…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Omar Eldeeb , Martin Malandro