Title
A Music Structure Informed Downbeat Tracking System Using Skip-chain Conditional Random Fields and Deep Learning
Abstract
In recent years the task of downbeat tracking has received increasing attention and the state of the art has been improved with the introduction of deep learning methods. Among proposed solutions, existing systems exploit short-term musical rules as part of their language modelling. In this work we show in an oracle scenario how including longer-term musical rules, in particular music structure, can enhance downbeat estimation. We introduce a skip-chain conditional random field language model for downbeat tracking designed to include section information in an unified and flexible framework. We combine this model with a state-of-the-art convolutional-recurrent network and we contrast the system’s performance to the commonly used Bar Pointer model. Our experiments on the popular Beatles dataset show that incorporating structure information in the language model leads to more consistent and more robust downbeat estimations.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/ICASSP.2019.8682870
ICASSP 2019 - 2019 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Hidden Markov models,Bars,Task analysis,Music,Estimation,Deep learning,Training
Conditional random field,Pointer (computer programming),Pattern recognition,Task analysis,Computer science,Tracking system,Oracle,Artificial intelligence,Deep learning,Hidden Markov model,Machine learning,Language model
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1520-6149
978-1-4799-8131-1
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.39
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Magdalena Fuentes111.40
Brian Mcfee244024.05
Hélène C. Crayencour310.39
Slim Essid421232.00
Juan Pablo Bello51215108.94