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most citedContrastive Learning-Based Audio to Lyrics Alignment for Multiple Languages

8 citations · 13 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

cs.SD2025

Automatic Identification of Samples in Hip-Hop Music via Multi-Loss Training and an Artificial Dataset

Huw Cheston, Jan Van Balen, Simon Durand

Sampling, the practice of reusing recorded music or sounds from another source in a new work, is common in popular music genres like hip-hop and rap. Numerous services have emerged…

cs.SD2023★ 8 cited

Contrastive Learning-Based Audio to Lyrics Alignment for Multiple Languages

Simon Durand, Daniel Stoller, Sebastian Ewert

Lyrics alignment gained considerable attention in recent years. State-of-the-art systems either re-use established speech recognition toolkits, or design end-to-end solutions invol…

cs.LG2020★ 2 cited

Data Cleansing with Contrastive Learning for Vocal Note Event Annotations

Gabriel Meseguer-Brocal, Rachel Bittner, Simon Durand +1

Data cleansing is a well studied strategy for cleaning erroneous labels in datasets, which has not yet been widely adopted in Music Information Retrieval. Previously proposed data…

eess.AS2020★ 1 cited

Dereverberation using joint estimation of dry speech signal and acoustic system

Sanna Wager, Keunwoo Choi, Simon Durand

The purpose of speech dereverberation is to remove quality-degrading effects of a time-invariant impulse response filter from the signal. In this report, we describe an approach to…

cs.SD2019★ 1 cited

End-to-end Lyrics Alignment for Polyphonic Music Using an Audio-to-Character Recognition Model

Daniel Stoller, Simon Durand, Sebastian Ewert

Time-aligned lyrics can enrich the music listening experience by enabling karaoke, text-based song retrieval and intra-song navigation, and other applications. Compared to text-to-…

cs.SD2016★ 1 cited

Robust Downbeat Tracking Using an Ensemble of Convolutional Networks

S. Durand, J. P. Bello, B. David +1

In this paper, we present a novel state of the art system for automatic downbeat tracking from music signals. The audio signal is first segmented in frames which are synchronized a…