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Automatic music transcription (AMT) is the problem of analyzing an audio recording of a musical piece and detecting notes that are being played. AMT is a challenging problem, particularly when it comes to polyphonic music. The goal of AMT…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Yohannis Telila , Tommaso Cucinotta , Davide Bacciu

In a recent conference paper, we have reported a rhythm transcription method based on a merged-output hidden Markov model (HMM) that explicitly describes the multiple-voice structure of polyphonic music. This model solves a major problem of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-01-31 Eita Nakamura , Kazuyoshi Yoshii , Shigeki Sagayama

Harmony in visual compositions is a concept that cannot be defined or easily expressed mathematically, even by humans. The goal of the research described in this paper was to find a numerical representation of artistic compositions with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Adam Vandor , Marie van Vollenhoven , Gerhard Weiss , Gerasimos Spanakis

Music structure analysis (MSA) methods traditionally search for musically meaningful patterns in audio: homogeneity, repetition, novelty, and segment-length regularity. Hand-crafted audio features such as MFCCs or chromagrams are often used…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-03 Ju-Chiang Wang , Jordan B. L. Smith , Wei-Tsung Lu , Xuchen Song

Audio-based music structure analysis (MSA) is an essential task in Music Information Retrieval that remains challenging due to the complexity and variability of musical form. Recent advances highlight the potential of fine-tuning…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Yixiao Zhang , Haonan Chen , Ju-Chiang Wang , Jitong Chen

The analysis of the structure of musical pieces is a task that remains a challenge for Artificial Intelligence, especially in the field of Deep Learning. It requires prior identification of structural boundaries of the music pieces. This…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-02 Carlos Hernandez-Olivan , Jose R. Beltran , David Diaz-Guerra

The annotation of music content is a complex process to represent due to its inherent multifaceted, subjectivity, and interdisciplinary nature. Numerous systems and conventions for annotating music have been developed as independent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Jacopo de Berardinis , Albert Meroño-Peñuela , Andrea Poltronieri , Valentina Presutti

The determination of musical key is a fundamental aspect of music theory and perception, providing a harmonic context for melodies and chord progressions. Automating this process, known as automatic key detection, is a significant task in…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Henrique Perez G. Silva

Symbolic music is represented in two distinct forms: two-dimensional, visually intuitive score images, and one-dimensional, standardized text annotation sequences. While large language models have shown extraordinary potential in music,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Mingni Tang , Jiajia Li , Lu Yang , Zhiqiang Zhang , Jinghao Tian , Zuchao Li , Lefei Zhang , Ping Wang

This paper demonstrates emergence of computational creativity in the field of music. Different aspects of creativity such as producer, process, product and press are studied and formulated. Different notions of computational creativity such…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Subodh Deolekar , Siby Abraham

Artistic style has been studied for centuries, and recent advances in machine learning create new possibilities for understanding it computationally. However, ensuring that machine-learning models produce insights aligned with the interests…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Huw Cheston , Reuben Bance , Peter M. C. Harrison

As the size of the datasets getting larger, accurately annotating such datasets is becoming more impractical due to the expensiveness on both time and economy. Therefore, crowd-sourcing has been widely adopted to alleviate the cost of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Hansong Zhang , Shikun Li , Dan Zeng , Chenggang Yan , Shiming Ge

In cross-modal music processing, translation between visual, auditory, and semantic content opens up new possibilities as well as challenges. The construction of such a transformative scheme depends upon a benchmark corpus with a…

We consider a specific scenario of text aggregation, in the realm of musical harmonization. Musical harmonization shares similarities with text aggregation, however the language of harmony is more structured than general text. Concretely,…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Eyal Briman , Eyal Leizerovich , Nimrod Talmon

Prevalent neuroscientific theories are combined with acoustic observations from various studies to create a consistent geometric model for music perception in order to rationalize, explain and predict psycho-acoustic phenomena. The space of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-12-07 Benjamin Himpel

The development of artificial intelligent composition has resulted in the increasing popularity of machine-generated pieces, with frequent copyright disputes consequently emerging. There is an insufficient amount of research on the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Yang Deng , Ziyao Xu , Li Zhou , Huanping Liu , Anqi Huang

Data is the lifeblood of modern machine learning systems, including for those in Music Information Retrieval (MIR). However, MIR has long been mired by small datasets and unreliable labels. In this work, we propose to break this bottleneck…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Yusong Wu , Josh Gardner , Ethan Manilow , Ian Simon , Curtis Hawthorne , Jesse Engel

This paper presents a novel supervised approach to detecting the chorus segments in popular music. Traditional approaches to this task are mostly unsupervised, with pipelines designed to target some quality that is assumed to define…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-22 Ju-Chiang Wang , Jordan B. L. Smith , Jitong Chen , Xuchen Song , Yuxuan Wang

In programming education, providing manual feedback is essential but labour-intensive, posing challenges in consistency and timeliness. We introduce ECHO, a machine learning method to automate the reuse of feedback in educational code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Charlotte Van Petegem , Kasper Demeyere , Rien Maertens , Niko Strijbol , Bram De Wever , Bart Mesuere , Peter Dawyndt

Music has always been thought of as a "human" endeavor -- when praising a piece of music, we emphasize the composer's creativity and the emotions the music invokes. Because music also heavily relies on patterns and repetition in the form of…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Nicholas Yan