[Back]


Talks and Poster Presentations (with Proceedings-Entry):

S. Böck, M. Davies, P. Knees:
"Multi-Task Learning of Tempo and Beat: Learning One to Improve the Other";
Talk: 20th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR), Delft, The Netherlands; 2019-11-04 - 2019-11-08; in: "Proceedings of the 20th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference", (2019), 486 - 493.



English abstract:
In this paper, we propose a multi-task learning approach for simultaneous tempo estimation and beat tracking of musical audio. The system shows state-of-the-art performance for both tasks on a wide range of data, but has another fundamental advantage: due to its multi-task nature, it is not only able to exploit the mutual information of both tasks by learning a common, shared representation, but can also improve one by learning only from the other. The multi-task learning is achieved by globally aggregating the skip connections of a beat tracking system built around temporal convolutional networks, and feeding them into a tempo classification layer. The benefit of this approach is investigated by the inclusion of training data for which tempo-only annotations are available, and which is shown to provide improvements in beat tracking accuracy.


"Official" electronic version of the publication (accessed through its Digital Object Identifier - DOI)
http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3527849

Electronic version of the publication:
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3527849


Created from the Publication Database of the Vienna University of Technology.