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Accurately estimating and simulating the physical properties of objects from real-world sound recordings is of great practical importance in the fields of vision, graphics, and robotics. However, the progress in these directions has been…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Xutong Jin , Chenxi Xu , Ruohan Gao , Jiajun Wu , Guoping Wang , Sheng Li

In this work, we reimagine classical probing to evaluate knowledge transfer from simple source to more complex target tasks. Instead of probing frozen representations from a complex source task on diverse simple target probing tasks (as…

A central component of training in Reinforcement Learning (RL) is Experience: the data used for training. The mechanisms used to generate and consume this data have an important effect on the performance of RL algorithms. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Albin Cassirer , Gabriel Barth-Maron , Eugene Brevdo , Sabela Ramos , Toby Boyd , Thibault Sottiaux , Manuel Kroiss

Music Structure Analysis is an open research task in Music Information Retrieval (MIR). In the past, there have been several works that attempt to segment music into the audio and symbolic domains, however, the identification and…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Carlos Hernandez-Olivan , Sonia Rubio Llamas , Jose R. Beltran

Music datasets play a crucial role in advancing research in machine learning for music. However, existing music datasets suffer from limited size, accessibility, and lack of audio resources. To address these shortcomings, we present…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Luca A. Lanzendörfer , Florian Grötschla , Emil Funke , Roger Wattenhofer

Music performances are representative scenarios for audio-visual modeling. Unlike common scenarios with sparse audio, music performances continuously involve dense audio signals throughout. While existing multimodal learning methods on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Xingjian Diao , Chunhui Zhang , Tingxuan Wu , Ming Cheng , Zhongyu Ouyang , Weiyi Wu , Jiang Gui

Music emotion recognition (MER) aims to identify the emotions conveyed in a given musical piece. However, currently, in the field of MER, the available public datasets have limited sample sizes. Recently, segment-based methods for…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Yifu Sun , Xulong Zhang , Monan Zhou , Wei Li

Multimodal federated learning in real-world settings often encounters incomplete and heterogeneous data across clients. This results in misaligned local feature representations that limit the effectiveness of model aggregation. Unlike prior…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Duong M. Nguyen , Trong Nghia Hoang , Thanh Trung Huynh , Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen , Phi Le Nguyen

Multimodal Emotion Recognition (MER) aims to automatically identify and understand human emotional states by integrating information from various modalities. However, the scarcity of annotated multimodal data significantly hinders the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Zhixian Zhao , Haifeng Chen , Xi Li , Dongmei Jiang , Lei Xie

Music Genre Classification is one of the most popular topics in the fields of Music Information Retrieval (MIR) and digital signal processing. Deep Learning has emerged as the top performer for classifying music genres among various…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Yichen Liu , Abhijit Dasgupta , Qiwei He

Music emotion recognition is an important task in MIR (Music Information Retrieval) research. Owing to factors like the subjective nature of the task and the variation of emotional cues between musical genres, there are still significant…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Shreyan Chowdhury , Verena Praher , Gerhard Widmer

Reconstructing high-fidelity magnetic resonance (MR) images from under-sampled k-space is a commonly used strategy to reduce scan time. The posterior sampling of diffusion models based on the real measurement data holds significant promise…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-04 Jiayue Chu , Chenhe Du , Xiyue Lin , Yuyao Zhang , Hongjiang Wei

This paper presents a Multi-Modal Environment-Aware Network (MEAN-RIR), which uses an encoder-decoder framework to predict room impulse response (RIR) based on multi-level environmental information from audio, visual, and textual sources.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-08 Jiajian Chen , Jiakang Chen , Hang Chen , Qing Wang , Yu Gao , Jun Du

Audio is a critical component of multimodal perception, and any truly intelligent system must demonstrate a wide range of auditory capabilities. These capabilities include transcription, classification, retrieval, reasoning, segmentation,…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Georg Heigold , Ehsan Variani , Tom Bagby , Cyril Allauzen , Ji Ma , Shankar Kumar , Michael Riley

Audio embeddings are crucial tools in understanding large catalogs of music. Typically embeddings are evaluated on the basis of the performance they provide in a wide range of downstream tasks, however few studies have investigated the…

Recently, research on audio foundation models has witnessed notable advances, as illustrated by the ever improving results on complex downstream tasks. Subsequently, those pretrained networks have quickly been used for various audio…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-02-19 David Genova , Philippe Esling , Tom Hurlin

Human perception and experience of music is highly context-dependent. Contextual variability contributes to differences in how we interpret and interact with music, challenging the design of robust models for information retrieval.…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Kleanthis Avramidis , Shanti Stewart , Shrikanth Narayanan

Emotional aspects play an important part in our interaction with music. However, modelling these aspects in MIR systems have been notoriously challenging since emotion is an inherently abstract and subjective experience, thus making it…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Shreyan Chowdhury , Andreu Vall , Verena Haunschmid , Gerhard Widmer

Generating multi-instrument music from symbolic music representations is an important task in Music Information Retrieval (MIR). A central but still largely unsolved problem in this context is musically and acoustically informed control in…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Ben Maman , Johannes Zeitler , Meinard Müller , Amit H. Bermano

Video understanding plays a fundamental role for content moderation on short video platforms, enabling the detection of inappropriate content. While classification remains the dominant approach for content moderation, it often struggles in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Hanzhong Liang , Jinghao Shi , Xiang Shen , Zixuan Wang , Vera Wen , Ardalan Mehrani , Zhiqian Chen , Yifan Wu , Zhixin Zhang