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Over the years, Music Information Retrieval (MIR) research community has released various models pretrained on large amounts of music data. Transfer learning showcases the proven effectiveness of pretrained backend models for a broad…

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Automatically labeling multiple styles for every song is a comprehensive application in all kinds of music websites. Recently, some researches explore review-driven multi-label music style classification and exploit style correlations for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Qianwen Ma , Chunyuan Yuan , Wei Zhou , Jizhong Han , Songlin Hu

For over 50 years, researchers have been trying to teach computers to read music notation, referred to as Optical Music Recognition (OMR). However, this field is still difficult to access for new researchers, especially those without a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Jorge Calvo-Zaragoza , Jan Hajič , Alexander Pacha

Recent information retrieval (IR) models are pre-trained and instruction-tuned on massive datasets and tasks, enabling them to perform well on a wide range of tasks and potentially generalize to unseen tasks with instructions. However,…

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This study introduces RUMAA, a transformer-based framework for music performance analysis that unifies score-to-performance alignment, score-informed transcription, and mistake detection in a near end-to-end manner. Unlike prior methods…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Sungkyun Chang , Simon Dixon , Emmanouil Benetos

Music is characterized by aspects related to different modalities, such as the audio signal, the lyrics, or the music video clips. This has motivated the development of multimodal datasets and methods for Music Information Retrieval (MIR)…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Jonas Geiger , Marta Moscati , Shah Nawaz , Markus Schedl

We apply foundation models to data discovery and exploration tasks. Foundation models include large language models (LLMs) that show promising performance on a range of diverse tasks unrelated to their training. We show that these models…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Moe Kayali , Anton Lykov , Ilias Fountalis , Nikolaos Vasiloglou , Dan Olteanu , Dan Suciu

Music similarity is an essential aspect of music retrieval, recommendation systems, and music analysis. Moreover, similarity is of vital interest for music experts, as it allows studying analogies and influences among composers and…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Andrea Poltronieri

Music Emotion Recognition involves the automatic identification of emotional elements within music tracks, and it has garnered significant attention due to its broad applicability in the field of Music Information Retrieval. It can also be…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Kexin Zhu , Xulong Zhang , Jianzong Wang , Ning Cheng , Jing Xiao

Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) have recently demonstrated remarkable visual understanding performance on both vision-language and vision-centric tasks. However, they often fall short in integrating advanced, task-specific capabilities for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Yufei Zhan , Hongyin Zhao , Yousong Zhu , Shurong Zheng , Fan Yang , Ming Tang , Jinqiao Wang

In the age of music streaming platforms, the task of automatically tagging music audio has garnered significant attention, driving researchers to devise methods aimed at enhancing performance metrics on standard datasets. Most recent…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Vassilis Lyberatos , Spyridon Kantarelis , Edmund Dervakos , Giorgos Stamou

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

Multitrack music transcription aims to transcribe a music audio input into the musical notes of multiple instruments simultaneously. It is a very challenging task that typically requires a more complex model to achieve satisfactory result.…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Wei-Tsung Lu , Ju-Chiang Wang , Yun-Ning Hung

Evaluating song aesthetics is challenging due to the multidimensional nature of musical perception and the scarcity of labeled data. We propose HEAR, a robust music aesthetic evaluation framework that combines: (1) a multi-source…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Shuyang Liu , Yuan Jin , Rui Lin , Shizhe Chen , Junyu Dai , Tao Jiang

Developing open-source foundation models is essential for advancing research in music audio understanding and ensuring access to powerful, multipurpose representations for music information retrieval. We present OMAR-RQ, a model trained…

Benchmark plays a pivotal role in assessing the advancements of large language models (LLMs). While numerous benchmarks have been proposed to evaluate LLMs' capabilities, there is a notable absence of a dedicated benchmark for assessing…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Jiajia Li , Lu Yang , Mingni Tang , Cong Chen , Zuchao Li , Ping Wang , Hai Zhao

Foundation models have indeed made a profound impact on various fields, emerging as pivotal components that significantly shape the capabilities of intelligent systems. In the context of intelligent vehicles, leveraging the power of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Sheng Luo , Wei Chen , Wanxin Tian , Rui Liu , Luanxuan Hou , Xiubao Zhang , Haifeng Shen , Ruiqi Wu , Shuyi Geng , Yi Zhou , Ling Shao , Yi Yang , Bojun Gao , Qun Li , Guobin Wu

A range of applications of multi-modal music information retrieval is centred around the problem of connecting large collections of sheet music (images) to corresponding audio recordings, that is, identifying pairs of audio and score…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Luis Carvalho , Gerhard Widmer

Multi-modality image fusion (MMIF) combines complementary information from different image modalities to provide a comprehensive and objective interpretation of scenes. However, existing fusion methods cannot resist different weather…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Xilai Li , Wuyang Liu , Xiaosong Li , Fuqiang Zhou , Huafeng Li , Feiping Nie

Audio-based cover song detection has received much attention in the MIR community in the recent years. To date, the most popular formulation of the problem has been to compare the audio signals of two tracks and to make a binary decision…

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