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Creating high-quality sound effects from videos and text prompts requires precise alignment between visual and audio domains, both semantically and temporally, along with step-by-step guidance for professional audio generation. However,…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Haomin Zhang , Sizhe Shan , Haoyu Wang , Zihao Chen , Xiulong Liu , Chaofan Ding , Xinhan Di

Autoregressive models are now capable of generating high-quality minute-long expressive MIDI piano performances. Even though this progress suggests new tools to assist music composition, we observe that generative algorithms are still not…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Gaëtan Hadjeres , Léopold Crestel

This paper explores a specific sub-task of cross-modal music retrieval. We consider the delicate task of retrieving a performance or rendition of a musical piece based on a description of its style, expressive character, or emotion from a…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Shreyan Chowdhury , Gerhard Widmer

Symbolic music generation aims to create musical notes, which can help users compose music, such as generating target instrument tracks based on provided source tracks. In practical scenarios where there's a predefined ensemble of tracks…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Ang Lv , Xu Tan , Peiling Lu , Wei Ye , Shikun Zhang , Jiang Bian , Rui Yan

Over 60,000 songs are released on Spotify every day, and the competition for the listener's attention is immense. In that regard, the importance of captivating and inviting cover art cannot be underestimated, because it is deeply entangled…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-18 James Marien , Sam Leroux , Bart Dhoedt , Cedric De Boom

We propose Composition Sampling, a simple but effective method to generate diverse outputs for conditional generation of higher quality compared to previous stochastic decoding strategies. It builds on recently proposed plan-based neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Shashi Narayan , Gonçalo Simões , Yao Zhao , Joshua Maynez , Dipanjan Das , Michael Collins , Mirella Lapata

Recent advances in generative models have made it possible to create high-quality, coherent music, with some systems delivering production-level output. Yet, most existing models focus solely on generating music from scratch, limiting their…

Could we automatically derive the score of a piano accompaniment based on the audio of a pop song? This is the audio-to-symbolic arrangement problem we tackle in this paper. A good arrangement model should not only consider the audio…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Ziyu Wang , Dejing Xu , Gus Xia , Ying Shan

Multi-instrument music transcription aims to convert polyphonic music recordings into musical scores assigned to each instrument. This task is challenging for modeling as it requires simultaneously identifying multiple instruments and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-02 Sungkyun Chang , Emmanouil Benetos , Holger Kirchhoff , Simon Dixon

Our study investigates an approach for understanding musical performances through the lens of audio encoding models, focusing on the domain of solo Western classical piano music. Compared to composition-level attribute understanding such as…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-22 Huan Zhang , Jinhua Liang , Simon Dixon

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

Many practices have been presented in music generation recently. While stylistic music generation using deep learning techniques has became the main stream, these models still struggle to generate music with high musicality, different…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Shuqi Dai , Xichu Ma , Ye Wang , Roger B. Dannenberg

The task of estimating the fundamental frequency of a monophonic sound recording, also known as pitch tracking, is fundamental to audio processing with multiple applications in speech processing and music information retrieval. To date, the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-02-20 Jong Wook Kim , Justin Salamon , Peter Li , Juan Pablo Bello

Automatic generation of sequences has been a highly explored field in the last years. In particular, natural language processing and automatic music composition have gained importance due to the recent advances in machine learning and…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Sebastian Garcia-Valencia , Alejandro Betancourt , Juan G. Lalinde-Pulido

Classical diffusion models typically rely on isotropic Gaussian noise, treating all regions uniformly and overlooking structural information important for high-quality generation. We introduce an edge-preserving diffusion process that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Jente Vandersanden , Sascha Holl , Xingchang Huang , Gurprit Singh

We present and release MIDI-GPT, a generative system based on the Transformer architecture that is designed for computer-assisted music composition workflows. MIDI-GPT supports the infilling of musical material at the track and bar level,…

Learning based representation has become the key to the success of many computer vision systems. While many 3D representations have been proposed, it is still an unaddressed problem how to represent a dynamically changing 3D object. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Boyan Jiang , Yinda Zhang , Xingkui Wei , Xiangyang Xue , Yanwei Fu

Generating high-quality 3D assets from textual descriptions remains a pivotal challenge in computer graphics and vision research. Due to the scarcity of 3D data, state-of-the-art approaches utilize pre-trained 2D diffusion priors, optimized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Ling Yang , Zixiang Zhang , Junlin Han , Bohan Zeng , Runjia Li , Philip Torr , Wentao Zhang

This paper presents a novel approach to neural instrument sound synthesis using a two-stage semi-supervised learning framework capable of generating pitch-accurate, high-quality music samples from an expressive timbre latent space. Existing…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Christian Limberg , Fares Schulz , Zhe Zhang , Stefan Weinzierl

We propose Polyffusion, a diffusion model that generates polyphonic music scores by regarding music as image-like piano roll representations. The model is capable of controllable music generation with two paradigms: internal control and…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Lejun Min , Junyan Jiang , Gus Xia , Jingwei Zhao