Best Papers from Selected Conferences/Journals

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ISMIR

• (2024) Six Dragons Fly Again: Reviving 15th-Century Korean Court Music with Transformers and Novel Encoding by Danbinaerin Han, Mark Gotham, Dongmin Kim, Hannah Park, Sihun Lee, and Dasaem Jeong
• (2024) MuChoMusic: Evaluating Music Understanding in Multimodal Audio-Language Models by Benno Weck, Ilaria Manco, Emmanouil Benetos, Elio Quinton, George Fazekas, and Dmitry Bogdanov
• (2024) ST-ITO: Controlling Audio Effects for Style Transfer with Inference-Time Optimization by Christian J. Steinmetz, Shubhr Singh, Marco Comunità, Ilias Ibnyahya, Shanxin Yuan, Emmanouil Benetos, and Joshua D. Reiss
• (2023) PESTO: Pitch Estimation with Self-supervised Transposition-equivariant Objective by Alain Riou, Lattner, Gaëtan Hadjeres, and Geoffroy Peeters
• (2023) CLaMP: Contrastive Language-Music Pre-training for Cross-Modal Symbolic Music Information Retrieval by Shangda Wu, Dingyao Yu, Xu Tan, and Maosong Sun
• (2022) Performance MIDI-to-score conversion by neural beat tracking by Lele Liu, Qiuqiang Kong, Veronica Morfi, and Emmanouil Benetos
• (2022) Traces of Globalization in Online Music Consumption Patterns and Results of Recommendation Algorithms by Oleg Lesota, Emilia Parada-Cabaleiro, Elisabeth Lex, Navid Rekabsaz, Stefan Brandl, and Markus Schedl
• (2021) Leveraging Hierarchical Structures for Few-Shot Musical Instrument Recognition by Hugo Flores Garcia, Aldo Aguilar, Ethan Manilow, and Bryan Pardo
• (2021) Emotion Embedding Spaces for Matching Music to Stories by Minz Won, Justin Salamon, Nicholas J. Bryan, Gautham J. Mysore, and Xavier Serra
• (2020) BebopNet: Deep Neural Models for Personalized Jazz Improvisations by Shunit Haviv Hakimi, Nadav Bhonker, and Ran El-Yaniv
• (2020) Perceptual Vs. Automated Judgements of Music Copyright Infringement by Yuchen Yuan, Sho Oishi, Charles Cronin, Daniel Müllensiefen, Quentin Atkinson, Shinya Fujii, and Patrick E. Savage
• (2020) Sesquialtera in the Colombian Bambuco: Perception and Estimation of Beat and Meter by Estefania Cano, Fernando Mora Ángel, Gustavo A. López Gil, José Ricardo Zapata, Antonio Escamilla, Juan F. Alzate, and Moisés Betancur
• (2020) Mode Classification and Natural Units in Plainchant by Bas Cornelissen, Willem Zuidema, and John Ashley Burgoyne
• (2020) Deconstruct, Analyse, Reconstruct: How to Improve Tempo, Beat, and Downbeat Estimation by Sebastian Böck and Matthew Davies
• (2020) Essentia.js: a JavaScript Library for Music and Audio Analysis on the Web by Albin Correya, Dmitry Bogdanov, Luis Joglar-Ongay, and Xavier Serra

Audio Mostly

• (2024) Sonic Shuttle Run: Leveraging Sound Design to Improve Affective Response and Performance in Maximal Exercise Tests​ by Daniel Hug, Sascha Ketelhut​
• (2023) An Interactive Modular System for Electrophysiological DMIs by Francesco Di Maggio, Atau Tanaka, David Fierro and Stephen Whitmarsh
• (2023) A Plugin for Neural Audio Synthesis of Impact Sound Effects by Zih Syuan Yang and Jason Hockman
• (2022) Matching auditory and visual room size, distance, and source orientation in virtual reality by Matthias Frank and Djordje Perinovic
• (2022) Manipulating Foley Footsteps and Character Realism to Influence Audience Perceptions of a 3D Animated Walk Cycle by Stuart Cunningham and Iain McGregor
• (2021) Mind the Steps: Towards Auditory Feedback in Tele-Rehabilitation Based on Automated Gait Classification by Michael Iber, Bernhard Dumphart, Victor-Adriel de Jesus Oliveira, Stefan Ferstl, Joschua M. Reis, Djordje Slijepčević, Mario Heller, Anna-Maria Raberger, and Brian Horsak
• (2020) Standstill to the ‘beat’: Differences in involuntary movement responses to simple and complex rhythms by Agata Zelechowska, Victor Gonzalez Sanchez, and Alexander Refsum Jensenius
• (2020) Surround Sound Spreads Visual Attentiin and Increases Cognitive Effort in Immersive Media Productions by Catarina Mendonca and Victoria Korshunova

NIME

• (2023) The BioSynth—an affective biofeedback device grounded in feminist thought by Erin Gee
• (2022) Bandoneon 2.0: an interdisciplinary project for research and development of electronic bandoneons in Argentina by Juan Ramos, Esteban Ramón Calcagno, Ramiro oscar Vergara, Pablo Riera, and Joaquín Rizza
• (2021) Spire Muse: A Virtual Musical Partner for Creative Brainstorming by Notto J. W. Thelle and Philippe Pasquier
• (2020) Nuanced and Interrelated Mediations and Exigencies (NIME): Addressing the Prevailing Political and Epistemological Crises by Lauren Hayes and Adnan Marquez-Borbon

JAES

• (2023) Speech Intelligibility and Quality Evaluation of Automotive Microphones Using Different Test Metrics and Their Correlation by Yu Du
• (2022) Web-Based Networked Music Performances via WebRTC: A Low-Latency PCM Audio Solution by Matteo Sacchetto, Paolo Gastaldi, Chris Chafe, Cristina Rottondi, and Antonio Servetti
• (2021) Do We Really Want to Keep the Gate Threshold That High? by Grace Brooks, Amandine Pras, Athena Elafros, and Monica Lockett
• (2020) Assessing the Impact of Head-Related Transfer Function Individualization on Task Performance: Case of a Virtual Reality Shooter Game by David Poirier-Quinot and Brian F.G. Katz

DAFx

• (2024) Wave Digital Modeling of Circuits with Multiple One-Port Nonlinearities Based on Lipschitz-Bounded Neural Networks by Oliviero Massi, Edoardo Manino, and Alberto Bernardini
• (2024) A Real-Time Approach for Estimating Pulse Tracking Parameters for Beat-Synchronous Audio Effects by Peter Meier, Simon Schwär, and Meinard Müller
• (2024) CONMOD: Controllable Neural Frame-Based Modulation Effects by Gyubin Lee, Hounsu Kim, Junwon Lee, and Juhan Nam
• (2023) Differentiable Feedback Delay Network for Colorless Reverberation by Gloria Dal Santo, Karolina Prawda, Sebastian Jiro Schlecht, and Vesa Välimäki
• (2022) Differentiable Piano Model for Midi-to-Audio Performance Synthesis by Lenny Renault, Rémi Mignot, and Axel Roebel
• (2022) Differentiable Time–frequency Scattering on GPU by John Muradeli, Cyrus Vahidi, Changhong Wang, Han Han, Vincent Lostanlen, Mathieu Lagrange, and eorge Fazekas
• (2022) Physical Modeling Using Recurrent Neural Networks with Fast Convolutional Layers by Julian D. Parker, Sebastian J. Schlecht, Rudolf Rabenstein, and Maximilian Schäfer
• Dynamic Grids for Finite-Difference Schemes in Musical Instrument Simulations by Silvin Willemsen, Stefan Bilbao, Michele Ducceschi, and Stefania Serafin
• A Physical Model of the Trombone Using Dynamic Grids for Finite-Difference Schemes by Silvin Willemsen, Stefan Bilbao, Michele Ducceschi, and Stefania Serafin
• (2021) The Role of Modal Excitation in Colorless Reverberation by Janis Heldmann and Sebastian J. Schlecht

ICAD

• (2024) Spin-Wave Voices: Sonification of Nanoscale Spin Waves as an Engagement and Possible Research Tool by Santa Pile, Oleg Lesota, Silvan David Peter, Christina Humer, and Martin Gasser
• (2024) Adapting Audio Mixing Principles and Tools to Parameter Mapping Sonification Design by Prithvi Ravi Kantan, Sofia Dahl, and Erika G. Spaich
• (2022) AltAR/table: A Platform for Plausible Auditory Augmentation by Marian Weger, Thomas Hermann, and Robert Höldrich
• (2021) Strategies and tools for the sonification of prosodic data: A composer’s perspective by Fabio Cifariello Ciardi
• (2021) OpenSpace sonification: complementing visualization of the solar system with sound by Elias Elmquist, Malin Ejdbo, Alexander Bock, and Niklas Ronnberg

ICASSP

• (2024) Composite Federated Learning with Heterogeneous Data by Jiaojiao Zhang, Jiang Hu, and Mikael Johansson
• (2024) Touring Samples with Pushforward Maps by Vivien Cabanners and Charles Arnal
• (2024) STAR: Distilling Speech Temporal Relation for Lightweight Speech Self-Supervised Learning Models by Kangwook Jang, Sungnyun Kim, and Hoirin Kim
• (2024) DGLP: Incorporating Orientation Information for Enhanced Link Prediction in Directed Graphs by Yusen Zhang, Yusong Tan, Songlei Jian, Qingbo Wu, and Kenli Li
• (2024) Significant ASR Error Detection for Conversational Voice Assistants by John Harvill, Rinat Khaziev, Scarlett Li, Randy Cogill, Lidan Wang, Gopinath Chennupati, and Hari Thadakamalla
• (2024) Adapting Frechet Audio Distance for Generative Music Evaluation by Azalea Gui, Hannes Gamper, Sebastian Braun, and Dimitra Emmanouilidou
• (2024) Robust Symbol-Level Precoding via A Symbol-Perturbed Zero-Forcing Structure by Wai-You Keung, Yatao Liu, and Wing-Kin Ma
• (2023) Audio signal enhancement with learning from positive and unlabelled data by Nobutaka Ito and Masashi Sugiyama
• (2023) Contrastive learning-based audio to lyrics alignment for multiple languages by Simon Durand, Daniel Stoller, and Sebastian Ewert
• (2023) Perspective projection-based 3D CT reconstruction from biplanar X-rays by Daeun Kyung, Kyungmin Jo, Jaegul Choo, Joonseok Lee, and Edward Choi
• (2023) Large covariance matrix estimation with oracle statistical rate by Quan Wei and Ziping Zhao
• (2023) Hyperbolic audio source separation by Darius Petermann, Gordon Wichern, Aswin Shanmugam Subramanian, and Jonathan LeRoux
• (2023) High-dimensional confidence regions in sparse MRI by Frederik Hoppe, Felix Krahmer, Claudio Mayrink Verdun, Marion Menzel, and Holger Rauhut
• (2023) Solving audio inverse problems with a diffusion model by Eloi Moliner, Jaakko Lehtinen, and Vesa Valimaki
• (2022) Generalized Sliced Probability Metrics by Soheil Kolouri, Kimia Nadjahi, Shahin Shahrampour, and Umut Şimşekli
• (2022) VarArray: Array-Geometry-Agnostic Continuous Speech Separation by Takuya Yoshioka, Xiaofei Wang, Dongmei Wang, Min Tang, Zirun Zhu, and Zhuo Chen
• (2022) Camera Calibration Through Camera Projection Loss by Talha Hanif Butt and Murtaza Taj
• (2022) Sketched RT3D: How to Reconstruct Billions of Photons Per Second by Julián Tachella, Michael P. Sheehan, and Mike E. Davies
• (2022) Efficiently and Globally Solving Joint Beamforming and Compression Problem in the Cooperative Cellular Network Via Lagrangian Duality by Xilai Fan, Ya-Feng Liu, and Liang Liu

WASPAA

• (2023) General Purpose Audio Effect Removal by Matthew Rice, Christian J. Steinmetz, George Fazekas, and Joshua D. Reiss
• (2023) Differentiable Representation of Warping Based on Lie Group Theory by Atsushi Miyashita and Tomoki Toda
• (2023) Leveraging Synthetic Data for Improving Chamber Ensemble Separation by Saurjya Sarkar, Louise Thorpe, Emmanouil Benetos, and Mark Sandler
• (2023) All-In-One Metrical And Functional Structure Analysis with Neighborhood Attentions on Demixed Audio by Taejun Kim and Juhan Nam
• (2021) Point Cloud Audio Processing by Krishna Subramani and Paris Smaragdis
• (2021) Filtered Noise Shaping for Time Domain Room Impulse Response Estimation From Reverberant Speech by Christian J. Steinmetz, Vamsi Krishna Ithapu, and Paul Calamia