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Motion-to-music and music-to-motion have been studied separately, each attracting substantial research interest within their respective domains. The interaction between human motion and music is a reflection of advanced human intelligence,…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Fuming You , Minghui Fang , Li Tang , Rongjie Huang , Yongqi Wang , Zhou Zhao

Music emotion recognition is an important task in MIR (Music Information Retrieval) research. Owing to factors like the subjective nature of the task and the variation of emotional cues between musical genres, there are still significant…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Shreyan Chowdhury , Verena Praher , Gerhard Widmer

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

Multi-modal retrieval has seen tremendous progress with the development of vision-language models. However, further improving these models require additional labelled data which is a huge manual effort. In this paper, we propose a framework…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Avinash Madasu , Estelle Aflalo , Gabriela Ben Melech Stan , Shachar Rosenman , Shao-Yen Tseng , Gedas Bertasius , Vasudev Lal

Unified multimodal models aim to jointly enable visual understanding and generation, yet current benchmarks rarely examine their true integration. Existing evaluations either treat the two abilities in isolation or overlook tasks that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Kai Zou , Ziqi Huang , Yuhao Dong , Shulin Tian , Dian Zheng , Hongbo Liu , Jingwen He , Bin Liu , Yu Qiao , Ziwei Liu

Users increasingly expect modern search systems to offer a unified interface that seamlessly retrieves information from diverse data sources and formats. However, current information retrieval (IR) evaluation benchmarks have not kept pace…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Mehmet Deniz Türkmen , Suchana Datta , Dwaipayan Roy , Daniel Hienert , Philipp Mayr , Derek Greene

Multimodal information retrieval (MIR) faces inherent challenges due to the heterogeneity of data sources and the complexity of cross-modal alignment. While previous studies have identified modal gaps in feature spaces, a systematic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Fanheng Kong , Jingyuan Zhang , Yahui Liu , Hongzhi Zhang , Shi Feng , Xiaocui Yang , Daling Wang , Yu Tian , Victoria W. , Fuzheng Zhang , Guorui Zhou

Modern-day Optical Music Recognition (OMR) is a fairly fragmented field. Most OMR approaches use datasets that are independent and incompatible between each other, making it difficult to both combine them and compare recognition systems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Pau Torras , Sanket Biswas , Alicia Fornés

One of the most significant challenges in Music Emotion Recognition (MER) comes from the fact that emotion labels can be heterogeneous across datasets with regard to the emotion representation, including categorical (e.g., happy, sad)…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Jaeyong Kang , Dorien Herremans

Music Information Retrieval (MIR) has seen a recent surge in deep learning-based approaches, which often involve encoding symbolic music (i.e., music represented in terms of discrete note events) in an image-like or language like fashion.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-12 Huan Zhang , Emmanouil Karystinaios , Simon Dixon , Gerhard Widmer , Carlos Eduardo Cancino-Chacón

Musical instrument classification is one of the focuses of Music Information Retrieval (MIR). In order to solve the problem of poor performance of current musical instrument classification models, we propose a musical instrument…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Yijie Liu , Yanfang Yin , Qigang Zhu , Wenzhuo Cui

Data are crucial in various computer-related fields, including music information retrieval (MIR), an interdisciplinary area bridging computer science and music. This paper introduces CCMusic, an open and diverse database comprising multiple…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Monan Zhou , Shenyang Xu , Zhaorui Liu , Zhaowen Wang , Feng Yu , Wei Li , Baoqiang Han

Music transcription, which deals with the conversion of music sources into a structured digital format, is a key problem for Music Information Retrieval (MIR). When addressing this challenge in computational terms, the MIR community follows…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2022-08-29 María Alfaro-Contreras , Jose J. Valero-Mas , José M. Iñesta , Jorge Calvo-Zaragoza

Despite recent advances in multimodal large language models (MLLMs), their ability to understand and interact with music remains limited. Music understanding requires grounded reasoning over symbolic scores and expressive performance audio,…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Qihao Zhao , Yunqi Cao , Yangyu Huang , Hui Yi Leong , Fan Zhang , Kim-Hui Yap , Wei Hu

Foundation models have emerged as a powerful approach for processing electronic health records (EHRs), offering flexibility to handle diverse medical data modalities. In this study, we present a comprehensive benchmark that evaluates the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Kunyu Yu , Rui Yang , Jingchi Liao , Siqi Li , Huitao Li , Irene Li , Yifan Peng , Rishikesan Kamaleswaran , Nan Liu

Much like most of cognition research, music cognition is an interdisciplinary field, which attempts to apply methods of cognitive science (neurological, computational and experimental) to understand the perception and process of composition…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Abhimanyu Sethia , Aayush

Machine-generated music (MGM) has become a groundbreaking innovation with wide-ranging applications, such as music therapy, personalised editing, and creative inspiration within the music industry. However, the unregulated proliferation of…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Yupei Li , Qiyang Sun , Hanqian Li , Lucia Specia , Björn W. Schuller

We propose a knowledge-driven, model-based approach to segmenting audio into single-category and mixed-category chunks with applications to source separation. "Knowledge" here denotes information associated with the data, such as music…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-26 Chun-wei Ho , Sabato Marco Siniscalchi , Kai Li , Chin-Hui Lee

Recently, the problem of music plagiarism has emerged as an even more pressing social issue. As music information retrieval research advances, there is a growing effort to address issues related to music plagiarism. However, many studies,…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Seonghyeon Go , Yumin Kim

Estimating music piece difficulty is important for organizing educational music collections. This process could be partially automatized to facilitate the educator's role. Nevertheless, the decisions performed by prevalent deep-learning…