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Automatic Music Transcription (AMT), aiming to get musical notes from raw audio, typically uses frame-level systems with piano-roll outputs or language model (LM)-based systems with note-level predictions. However, frame-level systems…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Dichucheng Li , Yongyi Zang , Qiuqiang Kong

Beat tracking in musical performance MIDI is a challenging and important task for notation-level music transcription and rhythmical analysis, yet existing methods primarily focus on audio-based approaches. This paper proposes an end-to-end…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Sebastian Murgul , Michael Heizmann

Automatic piano transcription models are typically evaluated using simple frame- or note-wise information retrieval (IR) metrics. Such benchmark metrics do not provide insights into the transcription quality of specific musical aspects such…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Patricia Hu , Lukáš Samuel Marták , Carlos Cancino-Chacón , Gerhard Widmer

Highly-informed Expressive Performance Rendering (EPR) systems transform music scores with rich musical annotations into human-like expressive performance MIDI files. While these systems have achieved promising results, the availability of…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Xian He , Wei Zeng , Ye Wang

Automatic music transcription (AMT) is the problem of analyzing an audio recording of a musical piece and detecting notes that are being played. AMT is a challenging problem, particularly when it comes to polyphonic music. The goal of AMT…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Yohannis Telila , Tommaso Cucinotta , Davide Bacciu

Multi-instrument Automatic Music Transcription (AMT), or the decoding of a musical recording into semantic musical content, is one of the holy grails of Music Information Retrieval. Current AMT approaches are restricted to piano and (some)…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Ben Maman , Amit H. Bermano

The goal of score following is to track a musical performance, usually in the form of audio, in a corresponding score representation. Established methods mainly rely on computer-readable scores in the form of MIDI or MusicXML and achieve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-17 Florian Henkel , Rainer Kelz , Gerhard Widmer

Multimodal instruction tuning has proven to be an effective strategy for achieving zero-shot generalization by fine-tuning pre-trained Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) with instruction-following data. However, as the scale of LMMs continues…

Despite recent achievements of deep learning automatic music generation algorithms, few approaches have been proposed to evaluate whether a single-track music excerpt is composed by automatons or Homo sapiens. To tackle this problem, we…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Mingshuo Ding , Yinghao Ma

Existing methods for expressive music performance rendering rely on supervised learning over small labeled datasets, which limits scaling of both data volume and model size, despite the availability of vast unlabeled music, as in vision and…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Hong-Jie You , Jie-Jing Shao , Xiao-Wen Yang , Lin-Han Jia , Lan-Zhe Guo , Yu-Feng Li

Modern music producers commonly use MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) to store their musical compositions. However, MIDI files created with digital software may lack the expressive characteristics of human performances,…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Zhanhong He , David Cooper , Defeng Huang , Roberto Togneri

Beginner musicians often struggle to identify specific errors in their performances, such as playing incorrect notes or rhythms. There are two limitations in existing tools for music error detection: (1) Existing approaches rely on…

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

Evaluation for continuous piano pedal depth estimation tasks remains incomplete when relying only on conventional frame-level metrics, which overlook musically important features such as direction-change boundaries and pedal curve contours.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Hanwen Zhang , Kun Fang , Ziyu Wang , Ichiro Fujinaga

The original MV2H metric was designed to evaluate systems which transcribe from an input audio (or MIDI) piece to a complete musical score. However, it requires both the transcribed score and the ground truth score to be time-aligned with…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-09 Andrew McLeod

The assessment of music performances in most cases takes into account the underlying musical score being performed. While there have been several automatic approaches for objective music performance assessment (MPA) based on extracted…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-04 Jiawen Huang , Yun-Ning Hung , Ashis Pati , Siddharth Kumar Gururani , Alexander Lerch

In this paper, we introduce the MIDI Degradation Toolkit (MDTK), containing functions which take as input a musical excerpt (a set of notes with pitch, onset time, and duration), and return a "degraded" version of that excerpt with some…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Andrew McLeod , James Owers , Kazuyoshi Yoshii

We present a framework based on neural networks to extract music scores directly from polyphonic audio in an end-to-end fashion. Most previous Automatic Music Transcription (AMT) methods seek a piano-roll representation of the pitches, that…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Miguel A. Román , Antonio Pertusa , Jorge Calvo-Zaragoza

Music mastering style transfer aims to model and apply the mastering characteristics of a reference track to a target track, simulating the professional mastering process. However, existing methods apply fixed processing based on a…

Deep learning models define the state-of-the-art in Automatic Drum Transcription (ADT), yet their performance is contingent upon large-scale, paired audio-MIDI datasets, which are scarce. Existing workarounds that use synthetic data often…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Pierfrancesco Melucci , Paolo Merialdo , Taketo Akama