How do you teach a computer to listen to music? How can it understand the musical and emotional content of music, and what can we learn from this? These are the questions answered by ongoing research with individual topics ranging from drum transcription and playing technique detection to automatic chord recognition.

Publications

• Qin, Yi, and Alexander Lerch. Tuning Frequency Dependency in Music Classification. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Brighton, 2019.
• Swaminathan, R. V. and Lerch, A. Improving Singing Voice Separation Using Attribute-Aware Deep Network. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Multilayer Music Representation and Processing (MMRP). Milan, Italy, 2019.
• Wu, C.-W.; Dittmar, C.; Southall, C.; Vogl, R.; Widmer, G.; Hockman, J. A.; Muller, M.; Lerch, A., A Review of Automatic Drum Transcription, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 26 (9), pp. 1457–1483, 2018, ISSN: 2329-9290.
• Gururani, S., Summers, C., Lerch, A., Instrument Activity Detection in Polyphonic Music using Deep Neural Networks. In Proceedings of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR). Paris, 2018.
• Subramanian, V., Lerch, A., Concert Stitch: Organization and Synchromization of Crowd-Sourced Recordings. In Proceedings of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR). Paris, 2018.
• Wu, C.-W., Lerch, A., From Labeled to Unlabeled Data -- On the Data Challenge in Automatic Drum Transcription. In Proceedings of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR). Paris, 2018.
• Gururani, S.; Lerch, A., Automatic Sample Detection in Polyphonic Music, Proceedings of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR), ISMIR, Suzhou, 2017.
• Wu, C.-W.; Lerch, A., Automatic drum transcription using the student-teacher learning paradigm with unlabeled music data, Proceedings of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR), ISMIR, Suzhou, 2017.
• Southall, C.; Wu, C.-W.; Lerch, A.; Hockman, J. A., MDB Drums - An Annotated Subset of MedleyDB for Automatic Drum Transcription, Late Breaking Demo (Extended Abstract), Proceedings of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR), ISMIR, Suzhou, 2017.
• Gururani, S.; Lerch, A., Mixing Secrets: A multitrack dataset for instrument detection in polyphonic music, Late Breaking Demo (Extended Abstract), Proceedings of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR), ISMIR, Suzhou, 2017.
• Pati, K. A., Lerch, A., A Dataset and Method for Electric Guitar Solo Detection in Rock Music, Proceedings of the AES Conference on Semantic Audio, Audio Engineering Society (AES), Erlangen, 2017.
• Wu, C.-W.; Lerch, A.,"On Drum Playing Technique Detection in Polyphonic Mixtures," Proceedings of the International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), New York, 2016
• Lu, Y.-C.; Wu, C.-W.; Lu, C.T.; Lerch, A., "Automatic Outlier Detection in Music Genre Datasets," Proceedings of the International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), New York, 2016
• Winters, R. M.; Gururani, S.; Lerch, A., "Automatic Practice Logging: Introduction, Dataset & Preliminary Study," Proceedings of the International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), New York, 2016
• Lu, Y.-C.; Wu, C.-W.; Lu, C.-T.; Lerch, A., "An Unsupervised Approach to Anomaly Detection in Music Datasets," Proceedings of the ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR), Pisa, 2016
• O’Brien, C.; Lerch, A., "Genre-Specific Key Profiles," Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), Denton, 2015
• Wu, C.-W.; Lerch, A., "Drum Transcription using Partially Fixed Non-Negative Matrix Factorization," Proceedings of the European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Nice, 2015
• Wu, C.-W.; Lerch, A., Drum Transcription using Partially Fixed Non-Negative Matrix Factorization With Template Adaptation," Proceedings of the International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR),
  Malaga, 2015
• Zhou, X.; Lerch, A., Chord Detection Using Deep Learning," Proceedings of the International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), Malaga, 2015