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20062026
most citedMorpheuS: generating structured music with constrained patterns and tension

80 citations

51 papers

physics.ed-ph2026

AMACA: Astronomy education with a Multi-sensory, Accessible, and Circular Approach

Rachele Toniolo, Anita Zanella, Andrea Cottinelli +4

The AMACA project (Astronomy education with a Multi-sensory, Accessible, and Circular Approach) develops multi-sensory activities for accessible education and engagement in astrono…

cs.SD2025

Gelina: Unified Speech and Gesture Synthesis via Interleaved Token Prediction

Téo Guichoux, Théodor Lemerle, Shivam Mehta +5

Human communication is multimodal, with speech and gestures tightly coupled, yet most computational methods for generating speech and gestures synthesize them sequentially, weakeni…

cs.SD2025

Learning Relationships Between Separate Audio Tracks for Creative Applications

Balthazar Bujard, Jérôme Nika, Fédéric Bevilacqua +1

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 music…

cs.SD2024★ 1 cited

Tipping Points, Pulse Elasticity and Tonal Tension: An Empirical Study on What Generates Tipping Points

Canishk Naik, Elaine Chew

Tipping points are moments of change that characterise crucial turning points in a piece of music. This study presents a first step towards quantitatively and systematically descri…

eess.AS2024

DJ Mix Transcription with Multi-Pass Non-Negative Matrix Factorization

Étienne Paul André, Dominique Fourer, Diemo Schwarz

DJ mix transcription is a crucial step towards DJ mix reverse engineering, which estimates the set of parameters and audio effects applied to a set of existing tracks to produce a…

cs.LG2024

Unsupervised Composable Representations for Audio

Giovanni Bindi, Philippe Esling

Current generative models are able to generate high-quality artefacts but have been shown to struggle with compositional reasoning, which can be defined as the ability to generate…

cs.SD2024★ 2 cited

Combining audio control and style transfer using latent diffusion

Nils Demerlé, Philippe Esling, Guillaume Doras +1

Deep generative models are now able to synthesize high-quality audio signals, shifting the critical aspect in their development from audio quality to control capabilities. Although…

cs.AI2024

Investigating the impact of 2D gesture representation on co-speech gesture generation

Teo Guichoux, Laure Soulier, Nicolas Obin +1

Co-speech gestures play a crucial role in the interactions between humans and embodied conversational agents (ECA). Recent deep learning methods enable the generation of realistic,…

math.PR2024★ 1 cited

Taking Music Seriously: on the Dynamics of 'Mathemusical' Research with a Focus on Hexachordal Theorems

Moreno Andreatta, Corentin Guichaoua, Nicolas Juillet

After presenting the general framework of 'mathemusical' dynamics, we focus on one music-theoretical problem concerning a special case of homometry theory applied to music composit…

eess.AS2024★ 7 cited

Design framework for spherical microphone and loudspeaker arrays in a multiple-input multiple-output system

Hai Morgenstern, Boaz Rafaely, Markus Noisternig

Spherical microphone arrays (SMAs) and spherical loudspeaker arrays (SLAs) facilitate the study of room acoustics due to the three-dimensional analysis they provide. More recently,…

cs.AI2023

META4: Semantically-Aligned Generation of Metaphoric Gestures Using Self-Supervised Text and Speech Representation

Mireille Fares, Catherine Pelachaud, Nicolas Obin

Image Schemas are repetitive cognitive patterns that influence the way we conceptualize and reason about various concepts present in speech. These patterns are deeply embedded with…

cs.MM2023

TranSTYLer: Multimodal Behavioral Style Transfer for Facial and Body Gestures Generation

Mireille Fares, Catherine Pelachaud, Nicolas Obin

This paper addresses the challenge of transferring the behavior expressivity style of a virtual agent to another one while preserving behaviors shape as they carry communicative me…

cs.HC2023★ 1 cited

AMII: Adaptive Multimodal Inter-personal and Intra-personal Model for Adapted Behavior Synthesis

Jieyeon Woo, Mireille Fares, Catherine Pelachaud +1

Socially Interactive Agents (SIAs) are physical or virtual embodied agents that display similar behavior as human multimodal behavior. Modeling SIAs' non-verbal behavior, such as s…

cs.SD2023★ 8 cited

SingSong: Generating musical accompaniments from singing

Chris Donahue, Antoine Caillon, Adam Roberts +8

We present SingSong, a system that generates instrumental music to accompany input vocals, potentially offering musicians and non-musicians alike an intuitive new way to create mus…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 19 cited

Sound people speak to Star people. A sound experts perspective on astronomy sonification projects

Nicolas Misdariis, Elif Özcan, Massimo Grassi +4

The Audible Universe project aims at making dialogue between two scientific domains investigating two distinct research objects, briefly said, Stars and Sound. It has been instanti…

cs.HC2022

Entangling Practice with Artistic and Educational Aims: Interviews on Technology-based Movement Sound Interactions

Victor Paredes, Jules Françoise, Frédéric Bevilacqua

Movement-sound interactive systems are at the interface of different artistic and educational practices. Within this multiplicity of uses, we examine common denominators in terms o…

cs.SD2022★ 1 cited

A Model You Can Hear: Audio Identification with Playable Prototypes

Romain Loiseau, Baptiste Bouvier, Yann Teytaut +3

Machine learning techniques have proved useful for classifying and analyzing audio content. However, recent methods typically rely on abstract and high-dimensional representations…

cs.SD2022★ 1 cited

Zero-Shot Style Transfer for Gesture Animation driven by Text and Speech using Adversarial Disentanglement of Multimodal Style Encoding

Mireille Fares, Michele Grimaldi, Catherine Pelachaud +1

Modeling virtual agents with behavior style is one factor for personalizing human agent interaction. We propose an efficient yet effective machine learning approach to synthesize g…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 13 cited

Audible universe

Chris Harrison, Anita Zanella, Nic Bonne +2

A multi-disciplinary team recently came together online to discuss the application of sonification in astronomy, focussing on the effective use of sound for scientific discovery an…

cs.SD2022★ 4 cited

Streamable Neural Audio Synthesis With Non-Causal Convolutions

Antoine Caillon, Philippe Esling

Deep learning models are mostly used in an offline inference fashion. However, this strongly limits the use of these models inside audio generation setups, as most creative workflo…

eess.AS2022

Analysis and transformations of voice level in singing voice

Frederik Bous, Axel Roebel

We introduce a neural auto-encoder that transforms the musical dynamic in recordings of singing voice via changes in voice level. Since most recordings of singing voice are not ann…

cs.LG2021★ 5 cited

RAVE: A variational autoencoder for fast and high-quality neural audio synthesis

Antoine Caillon, Philippe Esling

Deep generative models applied to audio have improved by a large margin the state-of-the-art in many speech and music related tasks. However, as raw waveform modelling remains an i…

cs.SD2021★ 5 cited

An Exploratory Study on Perceptual Spaces of the Singing Voice

Brendan O'Connor, Simon Dixon, George Fazekas

Sixty participants provided dissimilarity ratings between various singing techniques. Multidimensional scaling, class averaging and clustering techniques were used to analyse timbr…

cs.LG2021★ 1 cited

Signal-domain representation of symbolic music for learning embedding spaces

Mathieu Prang, Philippe Esling

A key aspect of machine learning models lies in their ability to learn efficient intermediate features. However, the input representation plays a crucial role in this process, and…