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most citedSound and Music Biases in Deep Music Transcription Models: A Systematic Analysis

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cs.SD2026

ScorePrompts: Natural-Language Exploration of Symbolic Music Scores through Analysis

Emmanouil Karystinaios, Gerhard Widmer

We present ScorePrompts, an interactive system in which users upload a score, receive natural-language descriptions of its musical structure, ask questions about specific passages,…

cs.SD2026

From Prediction to Collaboration: Interactive Symbolic Music Analysis

Emmanouil Karystinaios, Johannes Hentschel, Markus Neuwirth +1

Automatic symbolic music analysis has made substantial progress, yet existing systems are typically designed for a single mode of use, such as full-score prediction, and therefore…

cs.SD2026

Dilemmadata: On the Interoperability of Heterogeneous Roman Numeral Datasets

Johannes Hentschel, Emmanouil Karystinaios, Gerhard Widmer +1

In recent years, there has been growing effort to annotate and collect large-scale corpora of Roman numeral analyses in support of data-driven studies in tonal harmony. We introduc…

cs.SD2026

Precise and Simple Audio-to-Score Alignment

Silvan Peter, Patricia Hu, Gerhard Widmer

Audio-to-score alignment is a long-standing challenge in music information retrieval and arguably the most widely applicable alignment task for music research. Alignment algorithms…

cs.SD2026

Multi-Stage Music Source Restoration with BandSplit-RoFormer Separation and HiFi++ GAN

Tobias Morocutti, Emmanouil Karystinaios, Jonathan Greif +1

Music Source Restoration (MSR) targets recovery of original, unprocessed instrument stems from fully mixed and mastered audio, where production effects and distribution artifacts v…

cs.SD2026

How Far Can Pretrained LLMs Go in Symbolic Music? Controlled Comparisons of Supervised and Preference-based Adaptation

Deepak Kumar, Emmanouil Karystinaios, Gerhard Widmer +1

Music often shares notable parallels with language, motivating the use of pretrained large language models (LLMs) for symbolic music understanding and generation. Despite growing i…

cs.SD2025★ 1 cited

Sound and Music Biases in Deep Music Transcription Models: A Systematic Analysis

Lukáš Samuel Marták, Patricia Hu, Gerhard Widmer

Automatic Music Transcription (AMT) -- the task of converting music audio into note representations -- has seen rapid progress, driven largely by deep learning systems. Due to the…

cs.SD2025

MUSE-Explainer: Counterfactual Explanations for Symbolic Music Graph Classification Models

Baptiste Hilaire, Emmanouil Karystinaios, Gerhard Widmer

Interpretability is essential for deploying deep learning models in symbolic music analysis, yet most research emphasizes model performance over explanation. To address this, we in…

cs.GR2025

EngravingGNN: A Hybrid Graph Neural Network for End-to-End Piano Score Engraving

Emmanouil Karystinaios, Francesco Foscarin, Gerhard Widmer

This paper focuses on automatic music engraving, i.e., the creation of a humanly-readable musical score from musical content. This step is fundamental for all applications that inc…

cs.SD2025

AnalysisGNN: Unified Music Analysis with Graph Neural Networks

Emmanouil Karystinaios, Johannes Hentschel, Markus Neuwirth +1

Recent years have seen a boom in computational approaches to music analysis, yet each one is typically tailored to a specific analytical domain. In this work, we introduce Analysis…

cs.CV2025

Optical Music Recognition of Jazz Lead Sheets

Juan Carlos Martinez-Sevilla, Francesco Foscarin, Patricia Garcia-Iasci +3

In this paper, we address the challenge of Optical Music Recognition (OMR) for handwritten jazz lead sheets, a widely used musical score type that encodes melody and chords. The ta…

cs.SD2025

Pairing Real-Time Piano Transcription with Symbol-level Tracking for Precise and Robust Score Following

Silvan Peter, Patricia Hu, Gerhard Widmer

Real-time music tracking systems follow a musical performance and at any time report the current position in a corresponding score. Most existing methods approach this problem excl…

cs.SD2025

How to Infer Repeat Structures in MIDI Performances

Silvan Peter, Patricia Hu, Gerhard Widmer

MIDI performances are generally expedient in performance research and music information retrieval, and even more so if they can be connected to a score. This connection is usually…

cs.SD2024

Language Models for Music Medicine Generation

Emmanouil Nikolakakis, Joann Ching, Emmanouil Karystinaios +3

Music therapy has been shown in recent years to provide multiple health benefits related to emotional wellness. In turn, maintaining a healthy emotional state has proven to be effe…

cs.SD2024

Quantifying the Corpus Bias Problem in Automatic Music Transcription Systems

Lukáš Samuel Marták, Patricia Hu, Gerhard Widmer

Automatic Music Transcription (AMT) is the task of recognizing notes in audio recordings of music. The State-of-the-Art (SotA) benchmarks have been dominated by deep learning syste…

cs.SD2024★ 1 cited

Beat this! Accurate beat tracking without DBN postprocessing

Francesco Foscarin, Jan Schlüter, Gerhard Widmer

We propose a system for tracking beats and downbeats with two objectives: generality across a diverse music range, and high accuracy. We achieve generality by training on multiple…

cs.SD2024★ 1 cited

GraphMuse: A Library for Symbolic Music Graph Processing

Emmanouil Karystinaios, Gerhard Widmer

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have recently gained traction in symbolic music tasks, yet a lack of a unified framework impedes progress. Addressing this gap, we present GraphMuse, a…

eess.AS2024

Cluster and Separate: a GNN Approach to Voice and Staff Prediction for Score Engraving

Francesco Foscarin, Emmanouil Karystinaios, Eita Nakamura +1

This paper approaches the problem of separating the notes from a quantized symbolic music piece (e.g., a MIDI file) into multiple voices and staves. This is a fundamental part of t…

cs.SD2024

Towards Musically Informed Evaluation of Piano Transcription Models

Patricia Hu, Lukáš Samuel Marták, Carlos Cancino-Chacón +1

Automatic piano transcription models are typically evaluated using simple frame- or note-wise information retrieval (IR) metrics. Such benchmark metrics do not provide insights int…

cs.SD2024

SMUG-Explain: A Framework for Symbolic Music Graph Explanations

Emmanouil Karystinaios, Francesco Foscarin, Gerhard Widmer

In this work, we present Score MUsic Graph (SMUG)-Explain, a framework for generating and visualizing explanations of graph neural networks applied to arbitrary prediction tasks on…

cs.SD2024★ 1 cited

Perception-Inspired Graph Convolution for Music Understanding Tasks

Emmanouil Karystinaios, Francesco Foscarin, Gerhard Widmer

We propose a new graph convolutional block, called MusGConv, specifically designed for the efficient processing of musical score data and motivated by general perceptual principles…

cs.SD2023

8+8=4: Formalizing Time Units to Handle Symbolic Music Durations

Emmanouil Karystinaios, Francesco Foscarin, Florent Jacquemard +3

This paper focuses on the nominal durations of musical events (notes and rests) in a symbolic musical score, and on how to conveniently handle these in computer applications. We pr…

cs.SD2023★ 1 cited

The Batik-plays-Mozart Corpus: Linking Performance to Score to Musicological Annotations

Patricia Hu, Gerhard Widmer

We present the Batik-plays-Mozart Corpus, a piano performance dataset combining professional Mozart piano sonata performances with expert-labelled scores at a note-precise level. T…