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Matthew E. P. Davies

5 accepted papers

2024

On The Effect Of Data-Augmentation On Local Embedding Properties In The Contrastive Learning Of Music Audio Representations

ICASSP 2024accepted

Audio embeddings are crucial tools in understanding large catalogs of music. Typically embeddings are evaluated on the basis of the performance they provide in a wide range of downstream tasks, however few studies have investigated the local properties of the embedding spaces themselves which are im…

Cited by 10SourceScholar
2024

Similar but Faster: Manipulation of Tempo in Music Audio Embeddings for Tempo Prediction and Search

ICASSP 2024accepted

Audio embeddings enable large scale comparisons of the similarity of audio files for applications such as search and recommendation. Due to the subjectivity of audio similarity, it can be desirable to design systems that answer not only whether audio is similar, but similar in what way (e.g., wrt. t…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2024

Tempo Estimation as Fully Self-Supervised Binary Classification

ICASSP 2024accepted

This paper addresses the problem of global tempo estimation in musical audio. Given that annotating tempo is time-consuming and requires certain musical expertise, few publicly available data sources exist to train machine learning models for this task. Towards alleviating this issue, we propose a f…

Cited by 2SourceScholar
2023

Tempo vs. Pitch: Understanding Self-Supervised Tempo Estimation

ICASSP 2023accepted

Self-supervision methods learn representations by solving pretext tasks that do not require human-generated labels, alleviating the need for time-consuming annotations. These methods have been applied in computer vision, natural language processing, environmental sound analysis, and recently in musi…

Cited by 0SourceScholar