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Deep learning approaches for beat and downbeat tracking have brought advancements. However, these approaches continue to rely on hand-crafted, subsampled spectral features as input, restricting the information available to the model. In…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-05 Christian J. Steinmetz , Joshua D. Reiss

Recent beat and downbeat tracking models (e.g., RNNs, TCNs, Transformers) output frame-level activations. We propose reframing this task as object detection, where beats and downbeats are modeled as temporal "objects." Adapting the FCOS…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Jaehoon Ahn , Moon-Ryul Jung

Beat and downbeat tracking, jointly referred to as Meter Tracking, is a fundamental task in Music Information Retrieval (MIR). Deep learning models have far surpassed traditional signal processing and classical machine learning approaches…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Satyajeet Prabhu

The human ability to track musical downbeats is robust to changes in tempo, and it extends to tempi never previously encountered. We propose a deterministic time-warping operation that enables this skill in a convolutional neural network…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Bruno Di Giorgi , Matthias Mauch , Mark Levy

Beat tracking in musical performance MIDI is a challenging and important task for notation-level music transcription and rhythmical analysis, yet existing methods primarily focus on audio-based approaches. This paper proposes an end-to-end…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Sebastian Murgul , Michael Heizmann

Over the past two decades, the task of musical beat tracking has transitioned from heuristic onset detection algorithms to highly capable deep neural networks (DNN). Although DNN-based beat tracking models achieve near-perfect performance…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-13 Jaehoon Ahn , Tae Gum Hwang , Moon-Ryul Jung

We propose Beat Transformer, a novel Transformer encoder architecture for joint beat and downbeat tracking. Different from previous models that track beats solely based on the spectrogram of an audio mixture, our model deals with demixed…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Jingwei Zhao , Gus Xia , Ye Wang

Singing voice beat and downbeat tracking posses several applications in automatic music production, analysis and manipulation. Among them, some require real-time processing, such as live performance processing and auto-accompaniment for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-06 Mojtaba Heydari , Ju-Chiang Wang , Zhiyao Duan

In this paper, we present a novel state of the art system for automatic downbeat tracking from music signals. The audio signal is first segmented in frames which are synchronized at the tatum level of the music. We then extract different…

Sound · Computer Science 2016-05-27 S. Durand , J. P. Bello , B. David , G. Richard

As an important format of multimedia, music has filled almost everyone's life. Automatic analyzing music is a significant step to satisfy people's need for music retrieval and music recommendation in an effortless way. Thereinto, downbeat…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Bijue Jia , Jiancheng Lv , Dayiheng Liu

Transformer is a successful deep neural network (DNN) architecture that has shown its versatility not only in natural language processing but also in music information retrieval (MIR). In this paper, we present a novel Transformer-based…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Yun-Ning Hung , Ju-Chiang Wang , Xuchen Song , Wei-Tsung Lu , Minz Won

The online estimation of rhythmic information, such as beat positions, downbeat positions, and meter, is critical for many real-time music applications. Musical rhythm comprises complex hierarchical relationships across time, rendering its…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-10 Mojtaba Heydari , Frank Cwitkowitz , Zhiyao Duan

Many deep learning models have achieved dominant performance on the offline beat tracking task. However, online beat tracking, in which only the past and present input features are available, still remains challenging. In this paper, we…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Chih-Cheng Chang , Li Su

Due to advances in deep learning, the performance of automatic beat and downbeat tracking in musical audio signals has seen great improvement in recent years. In training such deep learning based models, data augmentation has been found an…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Ching-Yu Chiu , Joann Ching , Wen-Yi Hsiao , Yu-Hua Chen , Alvin Wen-Yu Su , Yi-Hsuan Yang

Beat tracking is a widely researched topic in music information retrieval. However, current beat tracking methods face challenges due to the scarcity of labeled data, which limits their ability to generalize across diverse musical styles…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Ganghui Ru , Jieying Wang , Jiahao Zhao , Yulun Wu , Yi Yu , Nannan Jiang , Wei Wang , Wei Li

Fine-tuning pre-trained foundation models has made significant progress in music information retrieval. However, applying these models to beat tracking tasks remains unexplored as the limited annotated data renders conventional fine-tuning…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Ganghui Ru , Jieying Wang , Jiahao Zhao , Yulun Wu , Yi Yu , Nannan Jiang , Wei Wang , Wei Li

Multitarget Tracking (MTT) is the problem of tracking the states of an unknown number of objects using noisy measurements, with important applications to autonomous driving, surveillance, robotics, and others. In the model-based Bayesian…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Juliano Pinto , Georg Hess , William Ljungbergh , Yuxuan Xia , Lennart Svensson , Henk Wymeersch

Tracking beats of singing voices without the presence of musical accompaniment can find many applications in music production, automatic song arrangement, and social media interaction. Its main challenge is the lack of strong rhythmic and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-01 Mojtaba Heydari , Zhiyao Duan

This paper presents a comparative analysis on two artificial neural networks (with different architectures) for the task of tempo estimation. For this purpose, it also proposes the modeling, training and evaluation of a B-RNN (Bidirectional…

We propose a transformer-based rhythm quantization model that incorporates beat and downbeat information to quantize MIDI performances into metrically-aligned, human-readable scores. We propose a beat-based preprocessing method that…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Maximilian Wachter , Sebastian Murgul , Michael Heizmann
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