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Recent advances in music generation produce impressive samples, however, practical creation still lacks two key capabilities: composer-style structural editing and minute-scale coherence. We present MusicWeaver, a framework for generating…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Xuanchen Wang , Heng Wang , Weidong Cai

AI-based music generation has made significant progress in recent years. However, generating symbolic music that is both long-structured and expressive remains a significant challenge. In this paper, we propose PerceiverS (Segmentation and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Yungang Yi , Weihua Li , Matthew Kuo , Quan Bai

This paper addresses the problem of sheet-image-based on-line audio-to-score alignment also known as score following. Drawing inspiration from object detection, a conditional neural network architecture is proposed that directly predicts…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Florian Henkel , Gerhard Widmer

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

In recent years, thanks to advances in automatic music transcription (AMT), several large-scale datasets of automatically transcribed piano solo music have been released. While these datasets undoubtedly offer extensive material for…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Patricia Hu , Silvan Peter , Gerhard Widmer

Motivated by the state-of-art psychological research, we note that a piano performance transcribed with existing Automatic Music Transcription (AMT) methods cannot be successfully resynthesized without affecting the artistic content of the…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Federico Simonetta , Stavros Ntalampiras , Federico Avanzini

Research on style transfer and domain translation has clearly demonstrated the ability of deep learning-based algorithms to manipulate images in terms of artistic style. More recently, several attempts have been made to extend such…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Ondřej Cífka , Umut Şimşekli , Gaël Richard

This paper aims to develop a holistic evaluation method for piano sound quality to assist in purchasing decisions. Unlike previous studies that focused on the effect of piano performance techniques on sound quality, this study evaluates the…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Monan Zhou , Shangda Wu , Shaohua Ji , Zijin Li , Wei Li

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

In the task of generating music, the art factor plays a big role and is a great challenge for AI. Previous work involving adversarial training to produce new music pieces and modeling the compatibility of variety in music (beats, tempo,…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-01-09 Abhinav Kaushal Keshari

The design of a complex system warrants a compositional methodology, i.e., composing simple components to obtain a larger system that exhibits their collective behavior in a meaningful way. We propose an automaton-based paradigm for…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Tobias Kappé , Farhad Arbab , Carolyn Talcott

Generative models of expressive piano performance are usually assessed by comparing their predictions to a reference human performance. A generative algorithm is taken to be better than competing ones if it produces performances that are…

At present, neural network-based models, including transformers, struggle to generate memorable and readily comprehensible music from unified and repetitive musical material due to a lack of understanding of musical structure. Consequently,…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Shangxuan Luo , Joshua Reiss

This paper presents the first step in a research project situated within the field of musical agents. The objective is to achieve, through training, the tuning of the desired musical relationship between a live musical input and a real-time…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Balthazar Bujard , Jérôme Nika , Fédéric Bevilacqua , Nicolas Obin

We present a unified framework for automatic multitrack music arrangement that enables a single pre-trained symbolic music model to handle diverse arrangement scenarios, including reinterpretation, simplification, and additive generation.…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Longshen Ou , Jingwei Zhao , Ziyu Wang , Gus Xia , Qihao Liang , Torin Hopkins Ye Wang

We present Text2midi-InferAlign, a novel technique for improving symbolic music generation at inference time. Our method leverages text-to-audio alignment and music structural alignment rewards during inference to encourage the generated…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Abhinaba Roy , Geeta Puri , Dorien Herremans

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…

Music transcription is the process of transcribing music audio into music notation. It is a field in which the machines still cannot beat human performance. The main motivation for automatic music transcription is to make it possible for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-25 Bojan Sofronievski , Branislav Gerazov

We have recently seen great progress in learning interpretable music representations, ranging from basic factors, such as pitch and timbre, to high-level concepts, such as chord and texture. However, most methods rely heavily on music…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Xuanjie Liu , Daniel Chin , Yichen Huang , Gus Xia

This paper studies visual search using structured queries. The structure is in the form of a 2D composition that encodes the position and the category of the objects. The transformation of the position and the category of the objects leads…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Mert Kilickaya , Arnold W. M. Smeulders