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20202026
most citedA benchmark of state-of-the-art sound event detection systems evaluated on synthetic soundscapes

9 citations · 28 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

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…

eess.AS2025

AI-Assisted Music Production: A User Study on Text-to-Music Models

Francesca Ronchini, Luca Comanducci, Simone Marcucci +1

Text-to-music models have revolutionized the creative landscape, offering new possibilities for music creation. Yet their integration into musicians workflows remains underexplored…

eess.AS2025

Mitigating data replication in text-to-audio generative diffusion models through anti-memorization guidance

Francisco Messina, Francesca Ronchini, Luca Comanducci +2

A persistent challenge in generative audio models is data replication, where the model unintentionally generates parts of its training data during inference. In this work, we addre…

eess.AS2025

Diffused Responsibility: Analyzing the Energy Consumption of Generative Text-to-Audio Diffusion Models

Riccardo Passoni, Francesca Ronchini, Luca Comanducci +2

Text-to-audio models have recently emerged as a powerful technology for generating sound from textual descriptions. However, their high computational demands raise concerns about e…

eess.AS2025

Mind the Prompt: Prompting Strategies in Audio Generations for Improving Sound Classification

Francesca Ronchini, Ho-Hsiang Wu, Wei-Cheng Lin +1

This paper investigates the design of effective prompt strategies for generating realistic datasets using Text-To-Audio (TTA) models. We also analyze different techniques for effic…

eess.AS2024★ 4 cited

MambaFoley: Foley Sound Generation using Selective State-Space Models

Marco Furio Colombo, Francesca Ronchini, Luca Comanducci +1

Recent advancements in deep learning have led to widespread use of techniques for audio content generation, notably employing Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPM) across…

cs.SD2024★ 6 cited

PAGURI: a user experience study of creative interaction with text-to-music models

Francesca Ronchini, Luca Comanducci, Gabriele Perego +1

In recent years, text-to-music models have been the biggest breakthrough in automatic music generation. While they are unquestionably a showcase of technological progress, it is no…

eess.AS2024

Synthetic training set generation using text-to-audio models for environmental sound classification

Francesca Ronchini, Luca Comanducci, Fabio Antonacci

In recent years, text-to-audio models have revolutionized the field of automatic audio generation. This paper investigates their application in generating synthetic datasets for tr…

eess.AS2024

Room Transfer Function Reconstruction Using Complex-valued Neural Networks and Irregularly Distributed Microphones

Francesca Ronchini, Luca Comanducci, Mirco Pezzoli +2

Reconstructing the room transfer functions needed to calculate the complex sound field in a room has several important real-world applications. However, an unpractical number of mi…

eess.AS2023

Performance and energy balance: a comprehensive study of state-of-the-art sound event detection systems

Francesca Ronchini, Romain Serizel

In recent years, deep learning systems have shown a concerning trend toward increased complexity and higher energy consumption. As researchers in this domain and organizers of one…

eess.AS2022★ 3 cited

Description and analysis of novelties introduced in DCASE Task 4 2022 on the baseline system

Francesca Ronchini, Samuele Cornell, Romain Serizel +3

The aim of the Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events Challenge Task 4 is to evaluate systems for the detection of sound events in domestic environments using a…

eess.AS2022★ 9 cited

A benchmark of state-of-the-art sound event detection systems evaluated on synthetic soundscapes

Francesca Ronchini, Romain Serizel

This paper proposes a benchmark of submissions to Detection and Classification Acoustic Scene and Events 2021 Challenge (DCASE) Task 4 representing a sampling of the state-of-the-a…

eess.AS2021★ 3 cited

The impact of non-target events in synthetic soundscapes for sound event detection

Francesca Ronchini, Romain Serizel, Nicolas Turpault +1

Detection and Classification Acoustic Scene and Events Challenge 2021 Task 4 uses a heterogeneous dataset that includes both recorded and synthetic soundscapes. Until recently only…

eess.AS2020★ 3 cited

Sound event localization and detection based on crnn using rectangular filters and channel rotation data augmentation

Francesca Ronchini, Daniel Arteaga, Andrés Pérez-López

Sound Event Localization and Detection refers to the problem of identifying the presence of independent or temporally-overlapped sound sources, correctly identifying to which sound…