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In this work we present an algorithm for composing monophonic melodies similar in style to those of a given, phrase annotated, sample of melodies. For implementation, a hybrid approach incorporating parametric Markov models of higher order…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-12-30 Rouven Bauer

Music contains hierarchical structures beyond beats and measures. While hierarchical structure annotations are helpful for music information retrieval and computer musicology, such annotations are scarce in current digital music databases.…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Junyan Jiang , Daniel Chin , Yixiao Zhang , Gus Xia

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

Human-in-the-loop (HITL) frameworks are increasingly recognized for their potential to improve annotation accuracy in emotion estimation systems by combining machine predictions with human expertise. This study focuses on integrating a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Sahana Yadnakudige Subramanya , Ko Watanabe , Andreas Dengel , Shoya Ishimaru

We present a computational assessment system that promotes the learning of basic rhythmic patterns. The system is capable of generating multiple rhythmic patterns with increasing complexity within various cycle lengths. For a generated…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Noel Alben , Ranjani H. G

Automatic evaluation metrics capable of replacing human judgments are critical to allowing fast development of new methods. Thus, numerous research efforts have focused on crafting such metrics. In this work, we take a step back and analyze…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Pierre Colombo , Maxime Peyrard , Nathan Noiry , Robert West , Pablo Piantanida

Human-annotated preference data play an important role in aligning large language models (LLMs). In this paper, we study two connected questions: how to monitor the quality of human preference annotators and how to incentivize them to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Shang Liu , Hanzhao Wang , Zhongyao Ma , Xiaocheng Li

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

In musical compositions that include vocals, lyrics significantly contribute to artistic expression. Consequently, previous studies have introduced the concept of a recommendation system that suggests lyrics similar to a user's favorites or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Haven Kim , Taketo Akama

This paper offers a precise, formal definition of an audio-to-score alignment. While the concept of an alignment is intuitively grasped, this precision affords us new insight into the evaluation of audio-to-score alignment algorithms.…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-01 John Thickstun , Jennifer Brennan , Harsh Verma

Automatic chord recognition (ACR) extracts time-aligned chord labels from music audio recordings. Despite recent advances, ACR still struggles with oversegmentation, data scarcity, and imbalance, especially in recognizing complex chords…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Leekyung Kim , Jonghun Park

Musical dynamics form a core part of expressive singing voice performances. However, automatic analysis of musical dynamics for singing voice has received limited attention partly due to the scarcity of suitable datasets and a lack of clear…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Jyoti Narang , Nazif Can Tamer , Viviana De La Vega , Xavier Serra

In natural language processing (NLP), the semantic similarity task requires large-scale, high-quality human-annotated labels for fine-tuning or evaluation. By contrast, in cases of music similarity, such labels are expensive to collect and…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Xinran Zhang , Maosong Sun , Jiafeng Liu , Xiaobing Li

Objective evaluation (OE) is essential to artificial music, but it's often very hard to determine the quality of OEs. Hitherto, subjective evaluation (SE) remains reliable and prevailing but suffers inevitable disadvantages that OEs may…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Songhe Wang , Zheng Bao , Jingtong E

Recent advancements have brought generated music closer to human-created compositions, yet evaluating these models remains challenging. While human preference is the gold standard for assessing quality, translating these subjective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Florian Grötschla , Ahmet Solak , Luca A. Lanzendörfer , Roger Wattenhofer

In recent years, machine learning models have rapidly become better at generating clinical consultation notes; yet, there is little work on how to properly evaluate the generated consultation notes to understand the impact they may have on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Francesco Moramarco , Alex Papadopoulos Korfiatis , Mark Perera , Damir Juric , Jack Flann , Ehud Reiter , Anya Belz , Aleksandar Savkov

To train a machine learning model is necessary to take numerous decisions about many options for each process involved, in the field of sequence generation and more specifically of music composition, the nature of the problem helps to…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Sebastian Garcia-Valencia , Alejandro Betancourt , Juan G. Lalinde-Pulido

Automatic music transcription converts audio recordings into symbolic representations, facilitating music analysis, retrieval, and generation. A musical note is characterized by pitch, onset, and offset in an audio domain, whereas it is…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Leekyung Kim , Sungwook Jeon , Wan Heo , Jonghun Park

We present a new approach to evaluate chord recognition systems on songs which do not have full annotations. The principle is to use online chord databases to generate high accurate "pseudo annotations" for these songs and compute "pseudo…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2011-09-05 Yizhao Ni , Matt Mcvicar , Raul Santos-Rodriguez , Tijl De Bie

Automatic estimation of piano fingering is important for understanding the computational process of music performance and applicable to performance assistance and education systems. While a natural way to formulate the quality of fingerings…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Eita Nakamura , Yasuyuki Saito , Kazuyoshi Yoshii