3 papers
cs.SD2026
Do Melody and Rhythm Coevolve?
Harin Lee, Rainer Polak, Manuel Anglada-Tort +3
Music comprises two core structural components, melody and rhythm, that vary widely across cultures. Whether these components coevolve in a coupled way or follow independent trajec…
cs.IR2025
GlobalMood: A cross-cultural benchmark for music emotion recognition
Harin Lee, Elif Ãelen, Peter Harrison +5
Human annotations of mood in music are essential for music generation and recommender systems. However, existing datasets predominantly focus on Western songs with terms derived fr…
cs.MM2025
Visual and Auditory Aesthetic Preferences Across Cultures
Harin Lee, Eline Van Geert, Elif Celen +4
Research on how humans perceive aesthetics in shapes, colours, and music has predominantly focused on Western populations, limiting our understanding of how cultural environments s…