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20192026
most citedVideo2Music: Suitable Music Generation from Videos using an Affective Multimodal Transformer model

55 citations · 187 across the 42 of their papers we have counts for

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47 papers

cs.HC2026

Diptych: Scoped, AI-Interpreted Comparison for Reference Listening in Music Production

Chongjun Zhong, Abhinaba Roy, Archishman Ghosh +2

Reference listening is a common strategy in music production, but current comparison tools often obscure a key human judgment: deciding what should be compared. We present Diptych,…

cs.SD2026

DEFINE: Exemplar-Guided Accent Control for Zero-Shot TTS

Ambuj Mehrish, Abhinaba Roy, Alex Ivanov +2

Zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) can reproduce an unseen speaker from a short reference recording, but typically entangles speaker identity and accent within the same reference. We i…

cs.SD2026

nnAudio 2: Overcoming Dynamic Compilation Barriers and Transform Inconsistencies

Abhinaba Roy, Junyi Liang, Dorien Herremans

nnAudio is an open-source audio feature extraction toolbox for deep learning, but its use in current environments is hindered by TorchScript incompatibilities, inverse-transform ed…

cs.SD2026

APEX: Large-scale Multi-task Aesthetic-Informed Popularity Prediction for AI-Generated Music

Jaavid Aktar Husain, Dorien Herremans

Music popularity prediction has attracted growing research interest, with relevance to artists, platforms, and recommendation systems. However, the explosive rise of AI-generated m…

cs.SD2026

MERIT: Learning Disentangled Music Representations for Audio Similarity

Abhinaba Roy, Junyi Liang, Dorien Herremans

Current music similarity models typically compute a single, monolithic score, entangling distinct musical dimensions like melody, rhythm, and timbre. This limits user control and i…

cs.CV2026

KARMA-MV: A Benchmark for Causal Question Answering on Music Videos

Archishman Ghosh, Abhinaba Roy, Dorien Herremans

While significant progress has been made in Video Question Answering and cross-modal understanding, causal reasoning about how visual dynamics drive musical structure in music vide…

cs.SD2026

Text2Score: Generating Sheet Music From Textual Prompts

Keshav Bhandari, Sungkyun Chang, Abhinaba Roy +4

Developing text-driven symbolic music generation models remains challenging due to the scarcity of aligned text-music datasets and the unreliability of automated captioning pipelin…

cs.HC2026

When Drawing Is Not Enough: Exploring Spontaneous Speech with Sketch for Intent Alignment in Multimodal LLMs

Weiyan Shi, Dorien Herremans, Kenny Tsu Wei Choo

Early-stage design ideation often relies on rough sketches created under time pressure, leaving much of the designer's intent implicit. In practice, designers frequently speak whil…

cs.CY2026

Digital Lifelong Learning in the Age of AI: Trends and Insights

Geeta Puri, Nachamma Socklingam, Dorien Herremans

Rapid innovations in AI and large language models (LLMs) have accelerated the adoption of digital learning, particularly beyond formal education. What began as an emergency respons…

cs.SD2025

Aligning Generative Music AI with Human Preferences: Methods and Challenges

Dorien Herremans, Abhinaba Roy

Recent advances in generative AI for music have achieved remarkable fidelity and stylistic diversity, yet these systems often fail to align with nuanced human preferences due to th…

cs.RO2025

NORA-1.5: A Vision-Language-Action Model Trained using World Model- and Action-based Preference Rewards

Chia-Yu Hung, Navonil Majumder, Haoyuan Deng +7

Vision--language--action (VLA) models have recently shown promising performance on a variety of embodied tasks, yet they still fall short in reliability and generalization, especia…

cs.CL2025

LLMs Can't Handle Peer Pressure: Crumbling under Multi-Agent Social Interactions

Maojia Song, Tej Deep Pala, Ruiwen Zhou +5

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly integrated into multi-agent systems (MAS), where peer interactions shape individual decisions. While prior work has mainly examined co…

cs.SD2025

SonicMaster: Towards Controllable All-in-One Music Restoration and Mastering

Jan Melechovsky, Ambuj Mehrish, Abhinaba Roy +1

Music recordings often suffer from audio quality issues such as excessive reverberation, distortion, clipping, tonal imbalances, and a narrowed stereo image, especially when create…

cs.SD2025

JAM: A Tiny Flow-based Song Generator with Fine-grained Controllability and Aesthetic Alignment

Renhang Liu, Chia-Yu Hung, Navonil Majumder +5

Diffusion and flow-matching models have revolutionized automatic text-to-audio generation in recent times. These models are increasingly capable of generating high quality and fait…

cs.SD2025

SonicVerse: Multi-Task Learning for Music Feature-Informed Captioning

Anuradha Chopra, Abhinaba Roy, Dorien Herremans

Detailed captions that accurately reflect the characteristics of a music piece can enrich music databases and drive forward research in music AI. This paper introduces a multi-task…

cs.SD2025

Text2midi-InferAlign: Improving Symbolic Music Generation with Inference-Time Alignment

Abhinaba Roy, Geeta Puri, Dorien Herremans

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 alig…

cs.SD2025★ 1 cited

MelodySim: Measuring Melody-aware Music Similarity for Plagiarism Detection

Tongyu Lu, Charlotta-Marlena Geist, Jan Melechovsky +2

We propose MelodySim, a melody-aware music similarity model and dataset for plagiarism detection. First, we introduce a novel method to construct a dataset focused on melodic simil…

cs.SD2025

JamendoMaxCaps: A Large Scale Music-caption Dataset with Imputed Metadata

Abhinaba Roy, Renhang Liu, Tongyu Lu +1

We introduce JamendoMaxCaps, a large-scale music-caption dataset featuring over 362,000 freely licensed instrumental tracks from the renowned Jamendo platform. The dataset includes…

cs.SD2025

ImprovNet -- Generating Controllable Musical Improvisations with Iterative Corruption Refinement

Keshav Bhandari, Sungkyun Chang, Tongyu Lu +4

Despite deep learning's remarkable advances in style transfer across various domains, generating controllable performance-level musical style transfer for complete symbolically rep…

cs.SD2024

Text2midi: Generating Symbolic Music from Captions

Keshav Bhandari, Abhinaba Roy, Kyra Wang +3

This paper introduces text2midi, an end-to-end model to generate MIDI files from textual descriptions. Leveraging the growing popularity of multimodal generative approaches, text2m…

cs.SD2024★ 1 cited

MIRFLEX: Music Information Retrieval Feature Library for Extraction

Anuradha Chopra, Abhinaba Roy, Dorien Herremans

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 musica…

eess.AS2024

DART: Disentanglement of Accent and Speaker Representation in Multispeaker Text-to-Speech

Jan Melechovsky, Ambuj Mehrish, Berrak Sisman +1

Recent advancements in Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems have enabled the generation of natural and expressive speech from textual input. Accented TTS aims to enhance user experience by…

cs.SD2024★ 1 cited

Leveraging LLM Embeddings for Cross Dataset Label Alignment and Zero Shot Music Emotion Prediction

Renhang Liu, Abhinaba Roy, Dorien Herremans

In this work, we present a novel method for music emotion recognition that leverages Large Language Model (LLM) embeddings for label alignment across multiple datasets and zero-sho…

eess.AS2024

PRESENT: Zero-Shot Text-to-Prosody Control

Perry Lam, Huayun Zhang, Nancy F. Chen +2

Current strategies for achieving fine-grained prosody control in speech synthesis entail extracting additional style embeddings or adopting more complex architectures. To enable ze…