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Music source separation has been intensively studied in the last decade and tremendous progress with the advent of deep learning could be observed. Evaluation campaigns such as MIREX or SiSEC connected state-of-the-art models and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-24 Yuki Mitsufuji , Giorgio Fabbro , Stefan Uhlich , Fabian-Robert Stöter , Alexandre Défossez , Minseok Kim , Woosung Choi , Chin-Yun Yu , Kin-Wai Cheuk

The performance of audio source separation from underdetermined convolutive mixture assuming known mixing filters can be significantly improved by using an analysis sparse prior optimized by a reweighting l1 scheme and a wideband…

Sound · Computer Science 2015-06-18 Simon Arberet , Pierre Vandergheynst

The development of models for learning music similarity and feature extraction from audio media files is an increasingly important task for the entertainment industry. This work proposes a novel music classification model based on metric…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Angelo C. Mendes da Silva , Mauricio A. Nunes , Raul Fonseca Neto

The complex nature of musical emotion introduces inherent bias in both recognition and generation, particularly when relying on a single audio encoder, emotion classifier, or evaluation metric. In this work, we conduct a study on Music…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-01 Yuanchao Li , Azalea Gui , Dimitra Emmanouilidou , Hannes Gamper

Evaluating generative models remains a fundamental challenge, particularly when the goal is to reflect human preferences. In this paper, we use music generation as a case study to investigate the gap between automatic evaluation metrics and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-01 Huan Zhang , Jinhua Liang , Huy Phan , Wenwu Wang , Emmanouil Benetos

The state of the art in music source separation employs neural networks trained in a supervised fashion on multi-track databases to estimate the sources from a given mixture. With only few datasets available, often extensive data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-09 Daniel Stoller , Sebastian Ewert , Simon Dixon

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) and diffusion models have recently achieved state-of-the-art performance in audio super-resolution (ADSR), producing perceptually convincing wideband audio from narrowband inputs. However, existing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-08 Mikhail Silaev , Konstantinos Drossos , Tuomas Virtanen

Music source separation aims to separate polyphonic music into different types of sources. Most existing methods focus on enhancing the quality of separated results by using a larger model structure, rendering them unsuitable for deployment…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Chun-Hsiang Wang , Chung-Che Wang , Jun-You Wang , Jyh-Shing Roger Jang , Yen-Hsun Chu

Recent neural network strategies for source separation attempt to model audio signals by processing their waveforms directly. Mean squared error (MSE) that measures the Euclidean distance between waveforms of denoised speech and the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-06-05 Shrikant Venkataramani , Ryley Higa , Paris Smaragdis

In speech enhancement and source separation, signal-to-noise ratio is a ubiquitous objective measure of denoising/separation quality. A decade ago, the BSS_eval toolkit was developed to give researchers worldwide a way to evaluate the…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Jonathan Le Roux , Scott Wisdom , Hakan Erdogan , John R. Hershey

Choral music separation refers to the task of extracting tracks of voice parts (e.g., soprano, alto, tenor, and bass) from mixed audio. The lack of datasets has impeded research on this topic as previous work has only been able to train and…

Despite phenomenal progress in recent years, state-of-the-art music separation systems produce source estimates with significant perceptual shortcomings, such as adding extraneous noise or removing harmonics. We propose a post-processing…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Noah Schaffer , Boaz Cogan , Ethan Manilow , Max Morrison , Prem Seetharaman , Bryan Pardo

In this paper we study deep learning-based music source separation, and explore using an alternative loss to the standard spectrogram pixel-level L2 loss for model training. Our main contribution is in demonstrating that adding a high-level…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-06-28 Abhimanyu Sahai , Romann Weber , Brian McWilliams

Music source separation represents the task of extracting all the instruments from a given song. Recent breakthroughs on this challenge have gravitated around a single dataset, MUSDB, only limited to four instrument classes. Larger datasets…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Alexandru Mocanu , Benjamin Ricaud , Milos Cernak

This paper proposes music similarity representation learning (MSRL) based on individual instrument sounds (InMSRL) utilizing music source separation (MSS) and human preference without requiring clean instrument sounds during inference. We…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Takehiro Imamura , Yuka Hashizume , Wen-Chin Huang , Tomoki Toda

The performance of music source separation (MSS) models has been greatly improved in recent years thanks to the development of novel neural network architectures and training pipelines. However, recent model designs for MSS were mainly…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-03 Yi Luo , Jianwei Yu

Supervised deep learning approaches to underdetermined audio source separation achieve state-of-the-art performance but require a dataset of mixtures along with their corresponding isolated source signals. Such datasets can be extremely…

Psychoacoustical so-called "timbre spaces" map perceptual similarity ratings of instrument sounds onto low-dimensional embeddings via multidimensional scaling, but suffer from scalability issues and are incapable of generalization. Recent…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Haokun Tian , Stefan Lattner , Charalampos Saitis

The criteria for measuring music similarity are important for developing a flexible music recommendation system. Some data-driven methods have been proposed to calculate music similarity from only music signals, such as metric learning…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Yuka Hashizume , Li Li , Tomoki Toda

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