11 papers
Measuring Cross-Cultural Style Diffusion Through Era Classification: US and Korean Popular Music
Dasol Lee, Minhee Lee, Seonguk Ju +3
Popular music circulates globally while being locally reinterpreted, yet this process of cross-cultural style diffusion has rarely been quantified. We propose an era-classification…
Pitch Contour Tokenization using VQ-VAE and Its Application on Korean Traditional Music Analysis
Seonguk Ju, Seola Cho, Sooin Chung +2
Computational analysis of music often relies on discrete representations, yet many musical traditions are organized around continuous pitch movement that resists segmentation into…
A Dataset and Benchmark for Optical Music Recognition of String Quartet Scores
Dongmin Kim, Brian Liu, Jose J. Valero-Mas +1
Optical music recognition (OMR) transcribes music scores into digital formats. While the field has advanced significantly on monophonic and piano-form scores, multi-part score tran…
Frame-Level Pansori Mode Classification with Complementary Audio Representations
Sangheon Park, Seonguk Ju, Suin Chung +2
Pansori is a traditional Korean vocal genre whose mode system (jo) is defined not by scale alone but by the entanglement of pitch collection, microtonal ornament (sigimsae), and vo…
Local Multimodal Music Alignment from Global Supervision
Irmak Bukey, Zachary Novack, Jongmin Jung +2
Understanding music requires understanding localized relationships across data modalities, e.g., how time in performance audio maps onto position in a score image. Yet supervision…
Nested Music Transformer: Sequentially Decoding Compound Tokens in Symbolic Music and Audio Generation
HaeJun Yoo, Hao-Wen Dong, Jongmin Jung +1
Representing symbolic music with compound tokens, where each token consists of several different sub-tokens representing a distinct musical feature or attribute, offers the advanta…