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Deep learning-based methods have made significant achievements in music source separation. However, obtaining good results while maintaining a low model complexity remains challenging in super wide-band music source separation. Previous…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-25 Weinan Tong , Jiaxu Zhu , Jun Chen , Shiyin Kang , Tao Jiang , Yang Li , Zhiyong Wu , Helen Meng

Music source separation is a core task in music information retrieval which has seen a dramatic improvement in the past years. Nevertheless, most of the existing systems focus exclusively on the problem of source separation itself and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-04 Yun-Ning Hung , Alexander Lerch

Music source separation has been a popular topic in signal processing for decades, not only because of its technical difficulty, but also due to its importance to many commercial applications, such as automatic karoake and remixing. In this…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-23 Yuzhou Liu , Balaji Thoshkahna , Ali Milani , Trausti Kristjansson

Source separation is a fundamental task in speech, music, and audio processing, and it also provides cleaner and larger data for training generative models. However, improving separation performance in practice often depends on increasingly…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Yongsheng Feng , Yuetonghui Xu , Jiehui Luo , Hongjia Liu , Xiaobing Li , Feng Yu , Wei Li

In this paper, we introduce a simple method that can separate arbitrary musical instruments from an audio mixture. Given an unaligned MIDI transcription for a target instrument from an input mixture, we synthesize new mixtures from the midi…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Ethan Manilow , Bryan Pardo

In deep learning research, many melody extraction models rely on redesigning neural network architectures to improve performance. In this paper, we propose an input feature modification and a training objective modification based on two…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Keren Shao , Ke Chen , Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick , Shlomo Dubnov

Music source separation (MSS) faces challenges due to the limited availability of correctly-labeled individual instrument tracks. With the push to acquire larger datasets to improve MSS performance, the inevitability of encountering…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-25 Junghyun Koo , Yunkee Chae , Chang-Bin Jeon , Kyogu Lee

Modern audio source separation techniques rely on optimizing sequence model architectures such as, 1D-CNNs, on mixture recordings to generalize well to unseen mixtures. Specifically, recent focus is on time-domain based architectures such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Vivek Sivaraman Narayanaswamy , Sameeksha Katoch , Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan , Huan Song , Andreas Spanias

Automatic Music Transcription (AMT) -- the task of converting music audio into note representations -- has seen rapid progress, driven largely by deep learning systems. Due to the limited availability of richly annotated music datasets,…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Lukáš Samuel Marták , Patricia Hu , Gerhard Widmer

FM Synthesis is a well-known algorithm used to generate complex timbre from a compact set of design primitives. Typically featuring a MIDI interface, it is usually impractical to control it from an audio source. On the other hand,…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Franco Caspe , Andrew McPherson , Mark Sandler

Given recent advances in deep music source separation, we propose a feature representation method that combines source separation with a state-of-the-art representation learning technique that is suitably repurposed for computer audition…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Gabriel Mersy , Jin Hong Kuan

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

This paper targets the perceptual task of separating the different interacting voices, i.e., monophonic melodic streams, in a polyphonic musical piece. We target symbolic music, where notes are explicitly encoded, and model this task as a…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Emmanouil Karystinaios , Francesco Foscarin , Gerhard Widmer

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

The performance of deep learning models for music source separation heavily depends on training data quality. However, datasets are often corrupted by difficult-to-detect artifacts such as audio bleeding and label noise. Since the type and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-20 Azalea Gui , Woosung Choi , Junghyun Koo , Kazuki Shimada , Takashi Shibuya , Joan Serrà , Wei-Hsiang Liao , Yuki Mitsufuji

We propose a method for the blind separation of sounds of musical instruments in audio signals. We describe the individual tones via a parametric model, training a dictionary to capture the relative amplitudes of the harmonics. The model…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-10 Sören Schulze , Johannes Leuschner , Emily J. King

Deep learning methods have brought substantial advancements in speech separation (SS). Nevertheless, it remains challenging to deploy deep-learning-based models on edge devices. Thus, identifying an effective way to compress these large…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Chao-I Tuan , Yuan-Kuei Wu , Hung-yi Lee , Yu Tsao

We study the problem of source separation for music using deep learning with four known sources: drums, bass, vocals and other accompaniments. State-of-the-art approaches predict soft masks over mixture spectrograms while methods working on…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Alexandre Défossez , Nicolas Usunier , Léon Bottou , Francis Bach

The Cadenza project aims to improve the audio quality of music for those who have a hearing loss. This is being done through a series of signal processing challenges, to foster better and more inclusive technologies. In the first round, two…

Machine-generated music (MGM) has emerged as a powerful tool with applications in music therapy, personalised editing, and creative inspiration for the music community. However, its unregulated use threatens the entertainment, education,…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Yupei Li , Hanqian Li , Lucia Specia , Björn W. Schuller