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Rhythm transcription is a key subtask of notation-level Automatic Music Transcription (AMT). While deep learning models have been extensively used for detecting the metrical grid in audio and MIDI performances, beat-based rhythm…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Maximilian Wachter , Sebastian Murgul , Michael Heizmann

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

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

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

The automated creation of accurate musical notation from an expressive human performance is a fundamental task in computational musicology. To this end, we present an end-to-end deep learning approach that constructs detailed musical scores…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Tim Beyer , Angela Dai

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

Music transcription plays a pivotal role in Music Information Retrieval (MIR), particularly for stringed instruments like the guitar, where symbolic music notations such as MIDI lack crucial playability information. This contribution…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Anna Hamberger , Sebastian Murgul , Jochen Schmidt , Michael Heizmann

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

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

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

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

Music is characterized by complex hierarchical structures. Developing a comprehensive model to capture these structures has been a significant challenge in the field of Music Information Retrieval (MIR). Prior research has mainly focused on…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-01 Taejun Kim , Juhan Nam

Automatic Music Transcription has seen significant progress in recent years by training custom deep neural networks on large datasets. However, these models have required extensive domain-specific design of network architectures,…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Curtis Hawthorne , Ian Simon , Rigel Swavely , Ethan Manilow , Jesse Engel

Beat and downbeat tracking models have improved significantly in recent years with the introduction of deep learning methods. However, despite these improvements, several challenges remain. Particularly, the adaptation of available models…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Lucas S. Maia , Martín Rocamora , Luiz W. P. Biscainho , Magdalena Fuentes

We propose a system for tracking beats and downbeats with two objectives: generality across a diverse music range, and high accuracy. We achieve generality by training on multiple datasets -- including solo instrument recordings, pieces…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Francesco Foscarin , Jan Schlüter , Gerhard Widmer

This paper presents a novel system architecture that integrates blind source separation with joint beat and downbeat tracking in musical audio signals. The source separation module segregates the percussive and non-percussive components of…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Ching-Yu Chiu , Alvin Wen-Yu Su , Yi-Hsuan Yang

This paper describes a streaming audio-to-MIDI piano transcription approach that aims to sequentially translate a music signal into a sequence of note onset and offset events. The sequence-to-sequence nature of this task may call for the…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Weixing Wei , Jiahao Zhao , Yulun Wu , Kazuyoshi Yoshii

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

Existing approaches for generating multitrack music with transformer models have been limited in terms of the number of instruments, the length of the music segments and slow inference. This is partly due to the memory requirements of the…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Hao-Wen Dong , Ke Chen , Shlomo Dubnov , Julian McAuley , Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick

MIDI velocity is crucial for capturing expressive dynamics in human performances. In practical scenarios, a music score with inaccurate velocities may be available alongside the performance audio (e.g., music education and free online…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-03 Zhanhong He , Roberto Togneri , David Huang
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