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20242026
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12 papers

cs.SD2026

Dance to Music Generation leveraging Pre-training with Unpaired data and Contrastive Alignment

Ryota Kimura, Sangheon Park, Natalia Polouliakh +1

Dance-to-music generation is a promising task for applications such as choreography support and automatic accompaniment, where temporal coordination between body movement and sound…

cs.AI2026

Expectation and Acoustic Neural Network Representations Enhance Music Identification from Brain Activity

Shogo Noguchi, Taketo Akama, Tai Nakamura +2

During music listening, cortical activity encodes both acoustic and expectation-related information. Prior work has shown that ANN representations resemble cortical representations…

cs.SD2026

Interpretable and Perceptually-Aligned Music Similarity with Pretrained Embeddings

Arhan Vohra, Taketo Akama

Perceptual similarity representations enable music retrieval systems to determine which songs sound most similar to listeners. State-of-the-art approaches based on task-specific tr…

cs.SD2026

PF-D2M: A Pose-free Diffusion Model for Universal Dance-to-Music Generation

Jaekwon Im, Natalia Polouliakh, Taketo Akama

Dance-to-music generation aims to generate music that is aligned with dance movements. Existing approaches typically rely on body motion features extracted from a single human danc…

cs.SD2026

Self-supervised restoration of singing voice degraded by pitch shifting using shallow diffusion

Yunyi Liu, Taketo Akama

Pitch shifting has been an essential feature in singing voice production. However, conventional signal processing approaches exhibit well known trade offs such as formant shifts an…

cs.SD2026

Towards Realistic Synthetic Data for Automatic Drum Transcription

Pierfrancesco Melucci, Paolo Merialdo, Taketo Akama

Deep learning models define the state-of-the-art in Automatic Drum Transcription (ADT), yet their performance is contingent upon large-scale, paired audio-MIDI datasets, which are…