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This paper addresses the problem of cross-modal musical piece identification and retrieval: finding the appropriate recording(s) from a database given a sheet music query, and vice versa, working directly with audio and scanned sheet music…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-27 Luis Carvalho , Gerhard Widmer

Modelling human perception of musical similarity is critical for the evaluation of generative music systems, musicological research, and many Music Information Retrieval tasks. Although human similarity judgments are the gold standard,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-29 Jeff Ens , Philippe Pasquier

Abstract: Cover song identification (CSI) focuses on finding the same music with different versions in reference anchors given a query track. In this paper, we propose a novel system named CoverHunter that overcomes the shortcomings of…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Feng Liu , Deyi Tuo , Yinan Xu , Xintong Han

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

Detecting musical versions (different renditions of the same piece) is a challenging task with important applications. Because of the ground truth nature, existing approaches match musical versions at the track level (e.g., whole song).…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Joan Serrà , R. Oguz Araz , Dmitry Bogdanov , Yuki Mitsufuji

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…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-05-29 Marc Sarfati , Anthony Hu , Jonathan Donier

This paper introduces an extendable modular system that compiles a range of music feature extraction models to aid music information retrieval research. The features include musical elements like key, downbeats, and genre, as well as audio…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Anuradha Chopra , Abhinaba Roy , Dorien Herremans

We present an empirical study on embedding the lyrics of a song into a fixed-dimensional feature for the purpose of music tagging. Five methods of computing token-level and four methods of computing document-level representations are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Matt McVicar , Bruno Di Giorgi , Baris Dundar , Matthias Mauch

Open-source licenses establish the legal foundation for software reuse, yet license variants, including both modified standard licenses and custom-created alternatives, introduce significant compliance complexities. Despite their prevalence…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Weiwei Xu , Hengzhi Ye , Kai Gao , Minghui Zhou

Sampling, the technique of reusing pieces of existing audio tracks to create new music content, is a very common practice in modern music production. In this paper, we tackle the challenging task of automatic sample identification, that is,…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Alain Riou , Joan Serrà , Yuki Mitsufuji

Significant strides have been made in creating voice identity representations using speech data. However, the same level of progress has not been achieved for singing voices. To bridge this gap, we suggest a framework for training singer…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Bernardo Torres , Stefan Lattner , Gaël Richard

Lyrics alignment in long music recordings can be memory exhaustive when performed in a single pass. In this study, we present a novel method that performs audio-to-lyrics alignment with a low memory consumption footprint regardless of the…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Emir Demirel , Sven Ahlbäck , Simon Dixon

Content creators often use music to enhance their videos, from soundtracks in movies to background music in video blogs and social media content. However, identifying the best music for a video can be a difficult and time-consuming task. To…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Shanti Stewart , Gouthaman KV , Lie Lu , Andrea Fanelli

Text--image retrieval is necessary for applications such as product recommendation. Embedding-based approaches like CLIP enable efficient large-scale retrieval via vector similarity search, but they are primarily trained on literal…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Eric He , Akash Gupta , Adian Liusie , Vatsal Raina , Piotr Molenda , Shirom Chabra , Vyas Raina

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) involves retrieving a target image based on a composed query of an image paired with text that specifies modifications or changes to the visual reference. CIR is inherently an instruction-following task, as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Wenliang Zhong , Weizhi An , Feng Jiang , Hehuan Ma , Yuzhi Guo , Junzhou Huang

Audio-text retrieval enables semantic alignment between audio content and natural language queries, supporting applications in multimedia search, accessibility, and surveillance. However, current state-of-the-art approaches struggle with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Meizhu Liu , Matthew Rowe , Amit Agarwal , Michael Avendi , Yassi Abbasi , Hitesh Laxmichand Patel , Paul Li , Kyu J. Han , Tao Sheng , Sujith Ravi , Dan Roth

Modeling various aspects that make a music piece unique is a challenging task, requiring the combination of multiple sources of information. Deep learning is commonly used to obtain representations using various sources of information, such…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Andres Ferraro , Xavier Favory , Konstantinos Drossos , Yuntae Kim , Dmitry Bogdanov

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

This paper studies the novel problem of automatic live music song identification, where the goal is, given a live recording of a song, to retrieve the corresponding studio version of the song from a music database. We propose a system based…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-15 Aapo Hakala , Trevor Kincy , Tuomas Virtanen

Music representations are the backbone of modern recommendation systems, powering playlist generation, similarity search, and personalized discovery. Yet most embeddings offer little control for adjusting a single musical attribute, e.g.,…