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Evaluating song aesthetics is challenging due to the multidimensional nature of musical perception and the scarcity of labeled data. We propose HEAR, a robust music aesthetic evaluation framework that combines: (1) a multi-source…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Shuyang Liu , Yuan Jin , Rui Lin , Shizhe Chen , Junyu Dai , Tao Jiang

Multimodal emotion recognition in conversation (MERC) requires representations that effectively integrate signals from multiple modalities. These signals include modality-specific cues, information shared across modalities, and interactions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Anh-Tuan Mai , Cam-Van Thi Nguyen , Duc-Trong Le

Digital music has become prolific in the web in recent decades. Automated recommendation systems are essential for users to discover music they love and for artists to reach appropriate audience. When manual annotations and user preference…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Yonatan Vaizman , Brian McFee , Gert Lanckriet

Several adaptations of Transformers models have been developed in various domains since its breakthrough in Natural Language Processing (NLP). This trend has spread into the field of Music Information Retrieval (MIR), including studies…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Dinh-Viet-Toan Le , Louis Bigo , Mikaela Keller , Dorien Herremans

Automatic cover detection -- the task of finding in an audio database all the covers of one or several query tracks -- has long been seen as a challenging theoretical problem in the MIR community and as an acute practical problem for…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-07-05 Guillaume Doras , Geoffroy Peeters

General-purpose audio representations have proven effective across diverse music information retrieval applications, yet their utility in intelligent music production remains limited by insufficient understanding of audio effects (Fx).…

Deep representation learning offers a powerful paradigm for mapping input data onto an organized embedding space and is useful for many music information retrieval tasks. Two central methods for representation learning include deep metric…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Jongpil Lee , Nicholas J. Bryan , Justin Salamon , Zeyu Jin , Juhan Nam

The field of Music Information Retrieval (MIR) is fragmented, with specialized models excelling at isolated tasks. In this work, we challenge this paradigm by introducing a unified foundation model named MuFun for holistic music…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Yi Jiang , Wei Wang , Xianwen Guo , Huiyun Liu , Hanrui Wang , Youri Xu , Haoqi Gu , Zhongqian Xie , Chuanjiang Luo

Users increasingly expect modern search systems to offer a unified interface that seamlessly retrieves information from diverse data sources and formats. However, current information retrieval (IR) evaluation benchmarks have not kept pace…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Mehmet Deniz Türkmen , Suchana Datta , Dwaipayan Roy , Daniel Hienert , Philipp Mayr , Derek Greene

While neural network approaches are achieving breakthrough performance in the natural language related fields, there have been few similar attempts at mathematical language related tasks. In this study, we explore the potential of applying…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-08-30 Liangcai Gao , Zhuoren Jiang , Yue Yin , Ke Yuan , Zuoyu Yan , Zhi Tang

Automatic piano transcription models are typically evaluated using simple frame- or note-wise information retrieval (IR) metrics. Such benchmark metrics do not provide insights into the transcription quality of specific musical aspects such…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Patricia Hu , Lukáš Samuel Marták , Carlos Cancino-Chacón , Gerhard Widmer

WordRep is a benchmark collection for the research on learning distributed word representations (or word embeddings), released by Microsoft Research. In this paper, we describe the details of the WordRep collection and show how to use it in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-07-08 Bin Gao , Jiang Bian , Tie-Yan Liu

Tag-based music retrieval is crucial to browse large-scale music libraries efficiently. Hence, automatic music tagging has been actively explored, mostly as a classification task, which has an inherent limitation: a fixed vocabulary. On the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Minz Won , Sergio Oramas , Oriol Nieto , Fabien Gouyon , Xavier Serra

In the era of data-driven Music Information Retrieval (MIR), the scarcity of labeled data has been one of the major concerns to the success of an MIR task. In this work, we leverage the semi-supervised teacher-student training approach to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-03 Yun-Ning Hung , Ju-Chiang Wang , Minz Won , Duc Le

This work present a music dataset named MusicTM-Dataset, which is utilized in improving the representation learning ability of different types of cross-modal retrieval (CMR). Little large music dataset including three modalities is…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Donghuo Zeng , Yi Yu , Keizo Oyama

Image perception is one of the most direct ways to provide contextual information about a user concerning his/her surrounding environment; hence images are a suitable proxy for contextual recommendation. We propose a novel representation…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2018-08-30 Chih-Chun Hsia , Kwei-Herng Lai , Yian Chen , Chuan-Ju Wang , Ming-Feng Tsai

Distributed representations of medical concepts have been used to support downstream clinical tasks recently. Electronic Health Records (EHR) capture different aspects of patients' hospital encounters and serve as a rich source for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Shaika Chowdhury , Chenwei Zhang , Philip S. Yu , Yuan Luo

Self-supervised learning methods like masked autoencoders (MAE) have shown significant promise in learning robust feature representations, particularly in image reconstruction-based pretraining task. However, their performance is often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Sua Lee , Joonhun Lee , Myungjoo Kang

We introduce a dataset for facilitating audio-visual analysis of music performances. The dataset comprises 44 simple multi-instrument classical music pieces assembled from coordinated but separately recorded performances of individual…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2018-08-09 Bochen Li , Xinzhao Liu , Karthik Dinesh , Zhiyao Duan , Gaurav Sharma

Automatically estimating the performance difficulty of a music piece represents a key process in music education to create tailored curricula according to the individual needs of the students. Given its relevance, the Music Information…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Pedro Ramoneda , Minhee Lee , Dasaem Jeong , J. J. Valero-Mas , Xavier Serra