Prof Simon Dixon

Simon Dixon
BSc AMusA LMusA PhD

Professor
Director of The UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in AI and Music

School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science
Queen Mary University of London
www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/~simond
Centre for Multimodal AI
ORCID Google Scholar

Research

Music Informatics, Music Information Retrieval, AI and Music, Audio Signal Processing

Interests

My research interests are in the fields of music informatics (music information retrieval), artificial intelligence, computer music, music signal processing, digital audio and music cognition. In recent years I have mainly worked on high-level music signal analysis, computational modelling of musical knowledge, and the study of musical performance, rhythm, harmony and intonation. For example, I have worked on note and chord transcription, beat tracking, multimodal music alignment, and singing intonation, using signal processing approaches, probabilistic models, and deep learning.

Publications

solid heart iconPublications of specific relevance to the Centre for Multimodal AI

2024

Relevant PublicationDMRN+19: Digital Music Research Network One-day Workshop 2024
Dixon S, Guinot J and Yusuf F
DMRN+19: Digital Music Research Network One-day Workshop 2024 Arst Two - QMUL (Queen Mary University of London); London E1 4NS, UK. 17 Dec 2024. Editors: Bort A. 
17-12-2024
Relevant PublicationPitch-aware generative pretraining improves multi-pitch estimation with scarce data
Pilataki M, Mauch M and Dixon S
Proceedings of the 6th ACM International Conference on Multimedia in Asia., 1-8.  
03-12-2024
Relevant Publication˜YourMT3+: Multi-instrument Music Transcription with Enhanced Transformer Architectures and Cross-dataset Stem Augmentation
Chang SK, Benetos E, KIRCHHOFF H and Dixon S
IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP) London, UK 22 Sep 2024 - 25 Sep 2024. 
22-09-2024
Relevant PublicationMusicMagus: Zero-Shot Text-to-Music Editing via Diffusion Models
Zhang Y, Ikemiya Y, Xia G, Murata N, Martinez M, Liao W, Mitsufuji Y and Dixon S
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence Jeju, Koera 3 Aug 2024 - 8 Aug 2024. 
03-08-2024
Relevant PublicationDExter: Learning and Controlling Performance Expression with Diffusion Models
Zhang H, Chowdhury S, Cancino-Chacón CE, Liang J, Dixon S and Widmer G
Applied Sciences, Mdpi vol. 14 (15), 1-17.  
26-07-2024
Relevant PublicationSimulating Piano Performance Mistakes for Music Learning
Morsi A, Zhang H, Maezawa A, Dixon S and Serra X
Sound and Music Computing Conference 4 Jul 2024 - 6 Jul 2024. 
06-07-2024
Relevant PublicationReconstructing the Charlie Parker Omnibook using an audio-to-score automatic transcription pipeline
Riley J and Dixon S
Sound and Music Computing Conference Porto 4 Jul 2024 - 6 Jul 2024. 
04-07-2024
Relevant PublicationIntroducing the TISMIR Education Track: What, Why, How?
Müller M, Dixon S, Volk A, Sturm BLT, Rao P and Gotham M
Transactions of The International Society For Music Information Retrieval, Ubiquity Press vol. 7 (1), 85-98.  
09-05-2024
Relevant PublicationUnsupervised Pitch-Timbre Disentanglement of Musical Instruments Using a Jacobian Disentangled Sequential Autoencoder
Luo Y-J, Ewert S and Dixon S
ICASSP 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP). vol. 00, 1036-1040.  
19-04-2024
Relevant PublicationHigh Resolution Guitar Transcription via Domain Adaptation
Riley JX, EDWARDS D and Dixon S
International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing Seoul, South Korea 14 Apr 2024 - 19 Apr 2024. 
14-04-2024
Relevant PublicationPosterior Variance-Parameterised Gaussian Dropout: Improving Disentangled Sequential Autoencoders for Zero-Shot Voice Conversion
Luo Y-J and Dixon S
ICASSP 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 14 Apr 2024 - 19 Apr 2024., 11676-11680.  
14-04-2024
Relevant PublicationA Data-Driven Analysis of Robust Automatic Piano Transcription
EDWARDS D, Dixon S, Benetos E, Maezawa A and Kusaka Y
Ieee Signal Processing Letters, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers vol. 31, 681-685.  
08-02-2024

2023

Relevant PublicationFiloBass: A Dataset and Corpus Based Study of Jazz Basslines
Riley X, Dixon S and Riley J
24th conference of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) Milan, Italy 5 Nov 2023 - 9 Nov 2023. 
05-11-2023
bullet iconSymbolic Music Representations for Classification Tasks: A Systematic Evaluation
Zhang H, Emmanouil K, Simon D, Gerhard W and Carlos Eduardo C-C
24th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR) 5 Nov 2023 - 9 Nov 2023. 
05-11-2023
Relevant PublicationAnnotating Jazz Recordings Using Lead Sheet Alignment with Deep Chroma Features
Shanin I and Dixon S
2023 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA). vol. 00, 1-5.  
25-10-2023
Relevant PublicationPiJAMA: Piano Jazz with Automatic MIDI Annotations
Edwards D, Dixon S and Benetos E
Transactions of The International Society For Music Information Retrieval, Ubiquity Press vol. 6 (1), 89-102.  
15-09-2023
Relevant PublicationCREPE NOTES: A NEW METHOD FOR SEGMENTING PITCH CONTOURS INTO DISCRETE NOTES
Riley X, Dixon S and Riley J
Sound and Music Computing Conference Stockholm, Sweden 13 Jun 2023 - 17 Jun 2023. 
17-06-2023
Relevant PublicationA Comparative Analysis Of Latent Regressor Losses For Singing Voice Conversion
O'Connor B and Dixon S
Sound and Music Computing Stockholm, Sweden 14 Jun 2023 - 17 Jun 2023., 289-295.  
12-06-2023
Relevant PublicationDisentangling the Horowitz Factor: Learning Content and Style From Expressive Piano Performance
Zhang H and Dixon S
ICASSP 2023 - 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)., 1-5.  
04-06-2023
Relevant PublicationPreface
Bestagini P, Dixon S, Liang B, Richard G, Sarti A, Antonacci F and Sandler M
24th International Society For Music Information Retrieval Conference, Ismir 2023 - Proceedings, xi-xvi.  
01-01-2023
Relevant PublicationMODELING HARMONIC SIMILARITY FOR JAZZ USING CO-OCCURRENCE VECTORS AND THE MEMBRANE AREA
Bunks C, Weyde T, Dixon S and Di Giorgi B
24th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, ISMIR 2023 - Proceedings., 757-764.  
01-01-2023

2022

Relevant PublicationATEPP: A DATASET OF AUTOMATICALLY TRANSCRIBED EXPRESSIVE PIANO PERFORMANCE
Zhang H, Tang J, Rafee S, Dixon S and Fazekas G
23rd International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2022) 4 Dec 2022 - 8 Dec 2022. 
04-12-2022
Relevant PublicationTowards Robust Unsupervised Disentanglement of Sequential Data - A Case Study Using Music Audio
Luo YJ, Ewert S and Dixon S
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence., 3299-3305.  
23-07-2022
Relevant PublicationThe Jazz Ontology: A semantic model and large-scale RDF repositories for jazz
Proutskova P, Wolff D, Fazekas G, Frieler K, Höger F, Velichkina O, Solis G, Weyde T, Pfleiderer M, Crayencour HC, Peeters G and Dixon S
Journal of Web Semantics, 100735-100735.  
01-07-2022
Relevant PublicationINTERPRETING SONG LYRICS WITH AN AUDIO-INFORMED PRE-TRAINED LANGUAGE MODEL
Zhang Y, Jiang J, Xia G and Dixon S
Proceedings of the 23rd International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, ISMIR 2022., 19-26.  
01-01-2022

2021

Relevant PublicationA Convolutional-Attentional Neural Framework for Structure-Aware Performance-Score Synchronization
Agrawal R, Wolff D and Dixon S
Ieee Signal Processing Letters vol. 29, 344-348.  
14-12-2021
Relevant PublicationZero-shot Singing Technique Conversion
O'Connor B, Fazekas G and Dixon S
Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research Tokyo 15 Nov 2021 - 19 Nov 2021., 235-244.  
15-11-2021
Relevant PublicationPitch-informed instrument assignment using a deep convolutional network with multiple kernel shapes
Vianna Lordelo C, Benetos E, Dixon S and Ahlbäck S
22nd International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR) 9 Nov 2021 - 12 Nov 2021., 389-395.  
09-11-2021
Relevant PublicationFilosax: A Dataset of Annotated Jazz Saxophone Recordings
Foster D and Dixon S
22nd International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference Online 8 Nov 2021 - 12 Nov 2021. 
08-11-2021
Relevant PublicationDetecting cover songs with pitch class key-invariant networks
O'Hanlon K, Benetos E and Dixon S
IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP) Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia 25 Oct 2021 - 28 Oct 2021. 
25-10-2021
Relevant PublicationComputational Pronunciation Analysis in Sung Utterances
Demirel E, Ahlbäck S and Dixon S
European Signal Processing Conference. vol. 2021-August, 186-190.  
27-08-2021
Relevant PublicationLow resource audio-to-lyrics alignment from polyphonic music recordings
Demirel E, Ahlbäck S and Dixon S
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing 6 Jun 2021 - 11 Jun 2021. vol. 2021-June, 586-590.  
06-06-2021
Relevant PublicationStructure-Aware Audio-to-Score Alignment Using Progressively Dilated Convolutional Neural Networks
Agrawal R, Wolff D and Dixon S
ICASSP 2021 - 2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 6 Jun 2021 - 11 Jun 2021. 
06-06-2021
Relevant PublicationCOSMIC: A Conversational Interface for Human-AI Music Co-Creation
Zhang Y, Xia G, Levy M and Dixon S
New Interfaces for Musical Expression 18 Jun 2021 - 14 Jul 2021. 
29-04-2021
Relevant PublicationPITCH-INFORMED INSTRUMENT ASSIGNMENT USING A DEEP CONVOLUTIONAL NETWORK WITH MULTIPLE KERNEL SHAPES
Lordelo C, Benetos E, Dixon S and Ahlbäck S
Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Music Information Retrieval, ISMIR 2021., 389-395.  
01-01-2021
Relevant PublicationMSTRE-NET: MULTISTREAMING ACOUSTIC MODELING FOR AUTOMATIC LYRICS TRANSCRIPTION
Demirel E, Ahlbäck S and Dixon S
Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Music Information Retrieval, ISMIR 2021., 151-158.  
01-01-2021

2020

Relevant PublicationAdversarial Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Harmonic-Percussive Source Separation
Vianna Lordelo C, Benetos E, Dixon S, Ahlbäck S and Ohlsson P
Ieee Signal Processing Letters, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers vol. 28, 81-85.  
18-12-2020
Relevant PublicationAn Exploratory Study on Perceptual Spaces of the Singing Voice
O'Connor B, Dixon S and Fazekas G
The 2020 Joint Conference on AI Music Creativity Proceedings of the 2020 Joint Conference on AI Creativity 19 Oct 2020 - 23 Oct 2020. vol. 1 (1) 
19-10-2020
Relevant PublicationLearning Frame Similarity using Siamese networks for Audio-to-Score Alignment
Agrawal R and Dixon S
2020 28th European Signal Processing Conference Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 
15-09-2020
Relevant PublicationAutomatic Lyrics Transcription using Dilated Convolutional Neural Networks with Self-Attention
Demirel E, Ahlbäck S and Dixon S
2020 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN). vol. 00, 1-8.  
24-07-2020
Relevant PublicationReliable Local Explanations for Machine Listening
MISHRA S, Benetos E, Sturm B and Dixon S
International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) Glasgow, UK 19 Jul 2020 - 24 Jul 2020. 
19-07-2020
Relevant PublicationSeq-U-Net: A One-Dimensional Causal U-Net for Efficient Sequence Modelling
Stoller D, Tian M, Ewert S and Dixon S
Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence., 2893-2900.  
01-07-2020
Relevant PublicationTRAINING GENERATIVE ADVERSARIAL NETWORKS FROM INCOMPLETE OBSERVATIONS USING FACTORISED DISCRIMINATORS
Stoller D, Ewert S and Dixon S
8th International Conference on Learning Representations, ICLR 2020. 
01-01-2020

2019

Relevant PublicationDMRN+14: Digital Music Research Network Workshop Proceedings 2019
KUDUMAKIS P and Dixon S
DMRN+14: Digital Music Research Network Workshop 2019 Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary University of London 1 Jan 1970 - 17 Dec 2019. Editors: KUDUMAKIS P and Dixon S. 
17-12-2019
Relevant PublicationDon’t hide in the frames: Note- and pattern-based evaluation of automated melody extraction algorithms
Frieler K, Basaran D, Höger F, Crayencour H-C, Peeters G and Dixon S
6th International Conference on Digital Libraries for Musicology., 25-32.  
09-11-2019
Relevant PublicationInvestigating kernel shapes and skip connections for deep learning-based harmonic-percussive separation
Vianna Lordelo C, Benetos E, Dixon S and Ahlbäck S
IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics New Paltz, NY, USA 20 Oct 2019 - 23 Oct 2019., 40-44.  
20-10-2019
Relevant PublicationErratum: Vocal imitation of percussion sounds: On the perceptual similarity between imitations and imitated sounds (PLOS ONE (2019)14:8 (e0221722) DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0219955)
Mehrabi A, Dixon S and Sandler M
Plos One, Public Library of Science (Plos) vol. 14 (8) 
22-08-2019
Relevant PublicationCharacterising Confounding Effects in Music Classification Experiments through Interventions
Rodríguez-Algarra F, Sturm BL and Dixon S
Transactions of The International Society For Music Information Retrieval, Ubiquity Press, Ltd. vol. 2 (1), 52-66.  
21-08-2019
Relevant PublicationIntonation trajectories within tones in unaccompanied soprano, alto, tenor, bass quartet singing.
Dai J and Dixon S
J Acoust Soc Am vol. 146 (2), 1005-1005.  
08-08-2019
Relevant PublicationVocal imitation of percussion sounds: On the perceptual similarity between imitations and imitated sounds.
Mehrabi A, Dixon S and Sandler M
Plos One vol. 14 (7), e0219955-e0219955.  
25-07-2019
Relevant PublicationA Hybrid Approach to Audio-to-Score Alignment
Agrawal R and Dixon S
Machine Learning for Music Discovery Workshop at International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML). 
30-05-2019
Relevant PublicationGAN-based Generation and Automatic Selection of Explanations for Neural Networks
MISHRA S, STOLLER D, BENETOS E, STURM B and DIXON S
SafeML ICLR 2019 Workshop New Orleans, USA 6 May 2019. 
06-05-2019
Relevant PublicationProbabilistic Sequential Patterns for Singing Transcription
Nakamura E, Nishikimi R, Dixon S and Yoshii K
2018 Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference., 1905-1912.  
07-03-2019
Relevant PublicationSinging together: Pitch accuracy and interaction in unaccompanied unison and duet singing.
Dai J and Dixon S
J Acoust Soc Am vol. 145 (2), 663-663.  
04-02-2019
Relevant PublicationAutomatic Music Transcription: An Overview
BENETOS E, DIXON S, Duan Z and EWERT S
Ieee Signal Processing Magazine, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers vol. 36 (1), 20-30.  
01-01-2019

2018

Relevant PublicationDMRN+13: Digital Music Research Network Workshop Proceedings 2018
KUDUMAKIS P and DIXON S
DMRN+13: Digital Music Research Network Workshop 2018 Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary University of London 1 Jan 1970 - 18 Dec 2018. Editors: KUDUMAKIS P and DIXON S. 
18-12-2018
Relevant PublicationUnderstanding Intonation Trajectories and Patterns of Vocal Notes
Dai J and Dixon S
Lecture Notes in Computer Science. vol. 11296, 243-253.  
11-12-2018
Relevant PublicationDetection of cut-points for automatic music rearrangement
Stoller D, Akkermans V and Dixon S
IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing, MLSP. vol. 2018-September 
31-10-2018
Relevant PublicationSimilarity Measures for Vocal-Based Drum Sample Retrieval Using Deep Convolutional Auto-Encoders
Mehrabi A, Choi K, Dixon S and Sandler M
ICASSP 2018. vol. 2018-April, 356-360.  
10-09-2018
Relevant PublicationAdversarial Semi-Supervised Audio Source Separation Applied to Singing Voice Extraction
Stoller D, Ewert S and Dixon S
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing. vol. 2018-April, 2391-2395.  
10-09-2018
Relevant PublicationA Demonstration of Hierarchical Structure Usage in Expressive Timing Analysis by Model Selection Tests
Li S, Dixon S and Plumbley MD
2018 37th Chinese Control Conference (CCC). vol. 00, 3190-3195.  
25-07-2018
Relevant PublicationJointly detecting and separating singing voice: a multi-task approach
STOLLER D, Ewert S and DIXON S
14th International Conference on Latent Variable Analysis and Signal Separation. 
06-06-2018
Relevant PublicationTowards Complete Polyphonic Music Transcription: Integrating Multi-Pitch Detection and Rhythm Quantization
Nakamura E, BENETOS E, Yoshii K and DIXON S
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing Calgary, Canada 15 Apr 2018 - 20 Apr 2018., 101-105.  
15-04-2018
Relevant PublicationInvestigating style evolution of Western classical music: A computational approach
Weiß C, Mauch M, Dixon S and Müller M
Musicae Scientiae vol. 23 (4), 486-507.  
07-03-2018
Relevant PublicationA review of manual and computational approaches for the study of world music corpora
PANTELI M, BENETOS E and DIXON S
Journal of New Music Research, Taylor & Francis (Routledge) vol. 47 (2), 176-189.  
08-01-2018
Relevant Publication“What are You Listening to?” Explaining Predictions of Deep Machine Listening Systems
Mishra S, Sturm BL and Dixon S
2018 26th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO). vol. 00, 2260-2264.  
03-01-2018
Relevant PublicationWave-U-Net: A multi-scale neural network for end-to-end audio source separation
Stoller D, Ewert S and Dixon S
Proceedings of the 19th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, ISMIR 2018., 334-340.  
01-01-2018
Relevant PublicationUnderstanding a deep machine listening model through feature inversion
Mishra S, Sturm BL and Dixon S
Proceedings of the 19th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, ISMIR 2018., 755-762.  
01-01-2018
Relevant PublicationTwo web applications for exploring melodic patterns in jazz solos
Frieler K, Höger F, Pfleiderer M and Dixon S
Proceedings of the 19th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, ISMIR 2018., 777-783.  
01-01-2018
Relevant PublicationEditorial: Introducing the Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval
Dixon S, Gómez E and Volk A
Transactions of The International Society For Music Information Retrieval, Ubiquity Press vol. 1 (1), 1-3.  
01-01-2018

2017

Relevant PublicationA computational study on outliers in world music
PANTELI M, BENETOS E and DIXON S
Plos One, Public Library of Science (Plos) vol. 12 (12), 1-28.  
18-12-2017
Relevant PublicationPickup position and plucking point estimation on an electric guitar via autocorrelation.
Mohamad Z, Dixon S and Harte C
J Acoust Soc Am vol. 142 (6), 3530-3540.  
01-12-2017
Relevant PublicationA data-driven model of tonal chord sequence complexity
Di Giorgi B, Dixon S, Zanoni M and Sarti A
Ieee/Acm Transactions On Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 1-1.  
28-09-2017
Relevant PublicationIdentifying Missing and Extra Notes in Piano Recordings Using Score-Informed Dictionary Learning
WANG S, Ewert SEBASTIAN and Dixon SIMON
Ieee/Acm Transactions On Audio, Speech and Language Processing 
07-07-2017
Relevant PublicationNote Value Recognition for Piano Transcription Using Markov Random Fields
NAKAMURA E, Yoshii K and Dixon S
Ieee/Acm Transactions On Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 1-1.  
30-06-2017
Relevant PublicationTRACKING METRICAL STRUCTURE CHANGES WITH SPARSE-NMF
Quinton E, Dixon S, Sandler M and O'Hanlon KO
2017 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing. 
19-06-2017
Relevant PublicationTowards the characterization of singing styles in world music
Panteli M, Bittner R, Bello JP and Dixon S
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing., 636-640.  
16-06-2017
Relevant PublicationPickup position and plucking point estimation on an electric guitar
Mohamad Z, Dixon S and Harte C
2017 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)., 651-655.  
16-06-2017
Relevant PublicationMusic thumbnailing for radio podcasts: A listener evaluation
Mehrabi A, Harte C, Baume C and Dixon S
Aes: Journal of The Audio Engineering Society vol. 65 (6), 474-481.  
01-06-2017
Relevant PublicationVocal imitation of synthesised sounds varying in pitch, loudness and spectral centroid
MEHRABI A, Dixon S and Sandler
Journal of The Acoustical Society of America, Acoustical Society of America vol. 141 (2), 783-796.  
13-02-2017
Relevant PublicationClustering expressive timing with regressed polynomial coefficients demonstrated by a model selection test
Li S, Dixon S and Plumbley MD
Proceedings of the 18th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, ISMIR 2017., 457-463.  
01-01-2017
Relevant PublicationLocal interpretable model-agnostic explanations for music content analysis
Mishra S, Sturm BL and Dixon S
Proceedings of the 18th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, ISMIR 2017., 537-543.  
01-01-2017
Relevant PublicationAnalysis of interactive intonation in unaccompanied SATB ensembles
Dai J and Dixon S
Proceedings of the 18th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, ISMIR 2017., 599-605.  
01-01-2017
Relevant PublicationGeographical origin prediction of folk music recordings from the United Kingdom
Kedyte V, Panteli M, Weyde T and Dixon S
Proceedings of the 18th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, ISMIR 2017., 664-670.  
01-01-2017
Relevant PublicationEstimating pickup and plucking positions of guitar tones and chords with audio effects
Mohamad Z, Dixon S and Harte C
Proceedings of the International Conference on Digital Audio Effects, DAFx., 420-427.  
01-01-2017

2016

Relevant PublicationAutomatic Detection of Metrical Structure Changes
SANDLER MB, quinton E, o'hanlon K and dixon S
DMRN+11: Digital Music Research Network One-day Workshop 2016 Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary University of London 20 Dec 2016. 
20-12-2016
Relevant PublicationExplaining Predictions of Machine Listening Systems
MISHRA S, Sturm B and Dixon S
DMRN+11: Digital Music Research Network One-day Workshop 2016 Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary University of London 20 Dec 2016. 
20-12-2016
Relevant PublicationRobust and efficient joint alignment of multiple musical performances
Wang S, Ewert S and Dixon S
Ieee/Acm Transactions On Audio Speech and Language Processing vol. 24 (11), 2132-2145.  
01-11-2016
Relevant PublicationTowards a comprehensive dataset of vocal imitations of drum sounds
MEHRABI A, Dixon S and Sandler M
2nd AES Workshop on Intelligent Music Production. 
12-09-2016
Relevant PublicationLearning a feature space for similarity in world music
Panteli M, Benetos E and Dixon S
17th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference New York, USA 7 Aug 2016 - 11 Aug 2016., 538-544.  
07-08-2016
Relevant PublicationAn attack/decay model for piano transcription
Cheng T, Mauch M, Benetos E and Dixon S
17th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference New York, USA 7 Aug 2016 - 11 Aug 2016., 584-590.  
07-08-2016
Relevant PublicationAutomatic detection of outliers in world music collections
Panteli M, Benetos E and Dixon S
Fourth International Conference on Analytical Approaches to World Music (AAWM 2016) New York, USA 8 Jun 2016 - 11 Jun 2016. 
08-06-2016
Relevant PublicationESTIMATION OF THE RELIABILITY OF MULTIPLE RHYTHM FEATURES EXTRACTION FROM A SINGLE DESCRIPTOR
QUINTON E, Sandler M and Dixon S
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing. 
01-04-2016
Relevant PublicationAn End-to-End Neural Network for Polyphonic Piano Music Transcription
Sigtia S, Benetos E and Dixon S
Ieee/Acm Transactions On Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, Ieee vol. 24 (5), 927-939.  
23-02-2016
Relevant PublicationPerceived and Induced Emotion Responses to Popular Music: Categorical and Dimensional Models
Song Y, Dixon S, Pearce MT and Halpern AR
Music Perception vol. 33 (4), 472-492.  
01-01-2016
Relevant PublicationOn the evaluation of rhythmic and melodic descriptors for music similarity
Panteli M and Dixon S
Proceedings of the 17th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, ISMIR 2016., 468-474.  
01-01-2016
Relevant PublicationAnalysis and classification of phonation modes in singing
Stoller D and Dixon S
Proceedings of the 17th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, ISMIR 2016., 80-86.  
01-01-2016
Relevant PublicationANALYSIS OF VOCAL IMITATIONS OF PITCH TRAJECTORIES
Dai J and Dixon S
Proceedings of the 17th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, ISMIR 2016., 87-93.  
01-01-2016
Relevant PublicationA model selection test for factors affecting the choice of expressive timing clusters for a phrase
Li S, Dixon S, Black DAA and Plumbley MD
SMC 2016 - 13th Sound and Music Computing Conference, Proceedings., 247-252.  
01-01-2016

2015

Relevant PublicationDigitally Moving an Electric Guitar Pickup
MOHAMAD Z, Dixon S and Harte C
International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx-15) Trondheim, Norway 30 Nov 2015 - 3 Dec 2015., 284-291.  
30-11-2015
Relevant PublicationVOCAL IMITATION OF PITCH, SPECTRAL SHAPE AND LOUDNESS ENVELOPES
MEHRABI A, Dixon S and Sandler M
International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference Malaga, Spain 25 Oct 2015 - 30 Oct 2015. 
25-10-2015
Relevant PublicationImproving Piano Note Tracking by HMM Smoothing
Cheng T, Dixon S and Mauch M
2015 23rd European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO)., 2009-2013.  
01-08-2015
Relevant PublicationIdentifying Cover Songs Using Information-Theoretic Measures of Similarity
Foster P, Dixon S and Klapuri A
Ieee Transactions On Audio, Speech and Language Processing vol. 23 (6), 993-1005.  
01-06-2015
Relevant PublicationA Hybrid Recurrent Neural Network for Music Transcription
Sigtia S, Benetos E, Boulanger-Lewandowski N, Weyde T, Garcez ASDA and Dixon S
2015 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) Brisbane, Australia 19 Apr 2015 - 24 Apr 2015., 2061-2065.  
19-04-2015
Relevant PublicationModelling the Decay of Piano Sounds
Cheng T, Dixon S and Mauch M
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing., 594-598.  
01-01-2015
Relevant PublicationComputer-aided Melody Note Transcription Using the Tony Software: Accuracy and Efficiency
Mauch M, Cannam C, Bittner R, Fazekas G, Salamon J, Dai J, Bello J and Dixon S
Proceedings of the First International Conference on Technologies for Music Notation and Representation. 
01-01-2015
Relevant PublicationCompensating for Asynchronies between Musical Voices in Score-Performance Alignment
Wang S, Ewert S and Dixon S
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing. 
01-01-2015
Relevant PublicationAutomating Annotation of Media with Linked Data Workflows
Wilmering T, Fazekas G, Dixon S, Bechhofer S and Page K
Third International Workshop on Linked Media (LiME 2015) co-located with the WWW’15 conference, 18-22 May, Florence, Italy.. 
01-01-2015
Relevant PublicationAn Evaluation of Multidimensional Controllers for Sound Design Tasks
Tubb R and Dixon S
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 
01-01-2015
Relevant PublicationA HYBRID RECURRENT NEURAL NETWORK FOR MUSIC TRANSCRIPTION
Sigtia S, Benetos E, Boulanger-Lewandowski N, Weyde T, Garcez ASD and Dixon S
2015 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ACOUSTICS, SPEECH, AND SIGNAL PROCESSING (ICASSP)., 2061-2065.  
01-01-2015
Relevant PublicationAudio Chord Recognition with a Hybrid Recurrent Neural Network
Sigtia S, Boulanger-Lewandowski N and Dixon S
16th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference., 127-133.  
01-01-2015
Relevant PublicationAnalysis of Intonation Trajectories in Solo Singing
Dai J, Mauch M and Dixon S
16th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference., 420-426.  
01-01-2015
Relevant PublicationCombining Features for Cover Song Identification
Osmalskyj J, Foster P, Dixon S and Embrechts J-J
16th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference., 462-468.  
01-01-2015
Relevant PublicationHow Well Can a Music Emotion Recognition System Predict the Emotional Responses of Participants?
Song Y and Dixon S
12th International Conference on Sound and Music Computing., 387-392.  
01-01-2015
Relevant PublicationCOMPENSATING FOR ASYNCHRONIES BETWEEN MUSICAL VOICES IN SCORE-PERFORMANCE ALIGNMENT
Wang S, Ewert S and Dixon S
2015 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ACOUSTICS, SPEECH, AND SIGNAL PROCESSING (ICASSP)., 589-593.  
01-01-2015
Relevant PublicationMODELLING THE DECAY OF PIANO SOUNDS
Cheng T, Dixon S and Mauch M
2015 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ACOUSTICS, SPEECH, AND SIGNAL PROCESSING (ICASSP)., 594-598.  
01-01-2015

2014

Relevant PublicationThe temperament police
Tidhar D, Dixon S, Benetos E and Weyde T
Early Music, Oxford University Press vol. 42 (4), 579-590.  
11-10-2014
Relevant PublicationBig Data for Musicology
Weyde T, Cottrell S, Dykes J, Benetos E, Wolff D, Tidhar D, Gold N, Abdallah S, Plumbley M, Dixon S, Barthet M, Mahey M, Tovell A and Alancar-Brayner A
1st International Digital Libraries for Musicology workshop London, UK 12 Sep 2014. Editors: Page K and Fields B. 
12-09-2014
Relevant PublicationIntonation in unaccompanied singing: accuracy, drift, and a model of reference pitch memory.
Mauch M, Frieler K and Dixon S
J Acoust Soc Am vol. 136 (1), 401-411.  
01-07-2014
Relevant PublicationTowards Complex Matrix Decomposition of Spectrograms Based on the Relative Phase Offsets of Harmonic Sounds
Kirchhoff H, Badeau R and Dixon S
2014 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)., 1572-1576.  
01-05-2014
Relevant PublicationImproved Music Feature Learning with Deep Neural Networks
Sigtia S and Dixon S
2014 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)., 6959-6963.  
01-05-2014
Relevant PublicationIntegration of informal music technologies in secondary school music lessons
Stowell D and Dixon S
British Journal of Music Education vol. 31 (1), 19-39.  
01-01-2014
Relevant PublicationDrum Transcription via Classification of Bar-level Rhythmic Patterns
Thompson L, Mauch M and Dixon S
15th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference Taipei, Taiwan., 187-192.  
01-01-2014
Relevant PublicationpYIN: a Fundamental Frequency Estimator Using Probabilistic Threshold Distributions
Mauch M and Dixon S
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2014)., 659-663.  
01-01-2014
Relevant PublicationA Zoomable Mapping of a Musical Parameter Space Using Hilbert Curves
Tubb R and Dixon S
Computer Music Journal vol. 38 (3), 23-33.  
01-01-2014
Relevant PublicationA Comparison of Extended Source-Filter Models for Musical Signal Reconstruction
Cheng T, Dixon S and Mauch M
17th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects. 
01-01-2014
Relevant PublicationTimbre-invariant Audio Features for Style Analysis of Classical Music
Weiss C, Mauch M and Dixon S
Joint 40th International Computer Music Conference and 11th Sound and Music Computing Conference. 
01-01-2014
Relevant PublicationSequential Complexity as a Descriptor for Musical Similarity
Foster P, Mauch M and Dixon S
Ieee Transactions On Audio, Speech, and Language Processing vol. 22 (12), 1965-1977.  
01-01-2014
Relevant PublicationRNN-based Music Language Models for Improving Automatic Music Transcription
Sigtia S, Benetos E, Cherla S, Weyde T, Garcez A and Dixon S
15th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference., 53-58.  
01-01-2014
Relevant PublicationThe Divergent Interface: Supporting Creative Exploration of Parameter Spaces
Tubb R and Dixon S
14th International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. 
01-01-2014
Relevant PublicationRobust Joint Alignment of Multiple Versions of a Piece of Music
Wang S, Ewert S and Dixon S
15th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference., 83-88.  
01-01-2014
Relevant PublicationA Four Strategy Model of Creative Parameter Space Interaction
Tubb R and Dixon S
5th International Conference on Computational Creativity. 
01-01-2014
Relevant PublicationDigital Music Lab - A Framework for Analysing Big Music Data
Weyde T, Cottrell S, Benetos E, Wolff D, Tidhar D, Plumbley MD, Dixon S, BARTHET MHE, Gold N, Abdallah S and Mahey M
European Conference on Data Analysis (ECDA) Bremen. 
01-01-2014
Relevant PublicationThe DML Research Project: Digital Music Lab - Analysing Big Music Data
BARTHET M, Benetos E, Cottrell S, Dixon S, Dykes J, Gold N, Mahey M, Plumbley MD, Tidhar D, Weyde T and Wolff D
 
01-01-2014
Relevant PublicationA four strategy model of creative parameter space interaction
Tubb R and Dixon S
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2014. 
01-01-2014
Relevant PublicationA comparison of extended source-filter models for musical signal reconstruction
Cheng T, Dixon S and Mauch M
Proceedings of the International Conference on Digital Audio Effects, DAFx. 
01-01-2014

2013

Relevant PublicationAutomatic music transcription: Challenges and future directions
Benetos E, Dixon S, Giannoulis D, Kirchhoff H and Klapuri A
Journal of Intelligent Information Systems vol. 41 (3), 407-434.  
01-12-2013
Relevant PublicationMissing template estimation for user-assisted music transcription
Kirchhoff H, Dixon S and Klapuri A
Icassp, Ieee International Conference On Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings, 26-30.  
18-10-2013
Relevant PublicationIdentification of cover songs using information theoretic measures of similarity
Foster P, Dixon S and Klapuri A
ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings., 739-743.  
18-10-2013
Relevant PublicationOn the relation between gesture, tone production and perception in classical cello performance
Chudy M, Carrillo AP and Dixon S
Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics. vol. 19 (1) 
02-06-2013
Relevant PublicationRoadmap for Music Information ReSearch
Serra X, Magas M, Benetos E, Chudy M, Dixon S, Flexer A, Gomez E, Gouyon F, Herrera P, Jorda S, Paytuvi O, Peeters G, Schlüter J, Vinet H and Widmer G
Editors: Peeters G. 
02-05-2013
Relevant PublicationOn the relation between gesture, tone production, and perception in classical cello performance.
Chudy M, Pérez Carrillo A and Dixon S
J Acoust Soc Am vol. 133 (5) 
01-05-2013
Relevant PublicationMultiple-instrument polyphonic music transcription using a temporally constrained shift-invariant model
Benetos E and Dixon S
Journal of The Acoustical Society of America vol. 133 (3), 1727-1741.  
01-03-2013
Relevant PublicationRecognising cello performers using timbre models
Chudy M and Dixon S
511-518.  
01-01-2013
Relevant PublicationA DETERMINISTIC ANNEALING EM ALGORITHM FOR AUTOMATIC MUSIC TRANSCRIPTION
Cheng T, Dixon S and Mauch M
14th International Conference of the Society of Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR 2013)., 475-480.  
01-01-2013
Relevant PublicationFacilitating Music Information Research with Shared Open Vocabularies
Allik A, Fazekas G, Dixon S and Sandler M
SEMANTIC WEB: ESWC 2013 SATELLITE EVENTS. vol. 7955, 178-183.  
01-01-2013
Relevant PublicationA Shared Vocabulary for Audio Features
Allik A, Fazekas G, Dixon S and Sandler M
SEMANTIC WEB: ESWC 2013 SATELLITE EVENTS. vol. 7955, 285-286.  
01-01-2013
Relevant PublicationDo online social tags predict perceived or induced emotional responses to music?
Song Y, Dixon S, Pearce M and Halpern A
Proceedings of the 14th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, ISMIR 2013., 89-94.  
01-01-2013
Relevant PublicationRecognising Cello Performers Using Timbre Models
Chudy M and Dixon S
In Algorithms From and For Nature and Life, Springer Nature 511-518.  
01-01-2013

2012

Relevant PublicationThewablet: Scanned synthesis on a multi-touch interface
Tubb R, Klapuri A and Dixon S
15th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects, DAFx 2012 Proceedings. 
01-12-2012
Relevant PublicationMulti-template shift-variant non-negative matrix deconvolution for semi-automatic music transcription
Kirchhoff H, Dixon S and Klapuri A
Proceedings of the 13th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, ISMIR 2012., 415-420.  
01-12-2012
Relevant PublicationRanking lyrics for online search
Macrae R and Dixon S
Proceedings of the 13th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, ISMIR 2012., 361-366.  
01-12-2012
Relevant PublicationImproving PLCA-based score-informed source separation with invertible Constant-Q Transforms
Ganseman J, Scheunders P and Dixon S
European Signal Processing Conference., 2634-2638.  
27-11-2012
Relevant PublicationAutomatic Music Transcription: Breaking the Glass Ceiling
BENETOS E, Dixon S, Giannoulis D, Kirchhoff H and Klapuri A
13th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2012) Porto, Portugal 8 Oct 2012 - 12 Oct 2012., 379-384. Editors: Gouyon F, Herrera P, Martins LG and Müller M. 
12-10-2012
Relevant PublicationTemporally-constrained convolutive probabilistic latent component analysis for multi-pitch detection
Benetos E and Dixon S
International Conference on Latent Variable Analysis and Signal Separation., 364-371.  
01-03-2012
Relevant PublicationEstimation of harpsichord inharmonicity and temperament from musical recordings.
Dixon S, Mauch M and Tidhar D
J Acoust Soc Am vol. 131 (1), 878-887.  
01-01-2012
Relevant PublicationShift-variant non-negative matrix deconvolution for music transcription
Kirchhoff H, Dixon S and Klapuri A
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing Kyoto, Japan 25 Mar 2012 - 30 Mar 2012., 125-128.  
01-01-2012
Relevant PublicationA Method for Identifying Repetition Structure in Musical Audio Based on Time Series Prediction
Foster P, Klapuri A and Dixon S
20th European Signal Processing Conference Bucharest 27 Aug 2012 - 31 Aug 2012., 1299-1303.  
01-01-2012
Relevant PublicationADAPTIVE DISTANCE NORMALIZATION FOR REAL-TIME MUSIC TRACKING
Arzt A, Widmer G and Dixon S
2012 PROCEEDINGS OF THE 20TH EUROPEAN SIGNAL PROCESSING CONFERENCE (EUSIPCO)., 2689-2693.  
01-01-2012
Relevant PublicationA Shift-Invariant Latent Variable Model for Automatic Music Transcription
Benetos E and Dixon S
Computer Music Journal vol. 36 (4), 81-94.  
01-01-2012
Relevant PublicationEvaluation of musical features for emotion classification
Song Y, Dixon S and Pearce M
Proceedings of the 13th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, ISMIR 2012., 523-528.  
01-01-2012
Relevant PublicationSCORE-INFORMED TRANSCRIPTION FOR AUTOMATIC PIANO TUTORING
Benetos E, Klapuri A and Dixon S
2012 PROCEEDINGS OF THE 20TH EUROPEAN SIGNAL PROCESSING CONFERENCE (EUSIPCO)., 2153-2157.  
01-01-2012
Relevant PublicationListening level changes music similarity
Terrell MJ, Fazekas G, Simpson AJR, Smith JBL and Dixon S
Proceedings of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference., 487-92.  
01-01-2012
Relevant PublicationA Corpus-based Study Of Rhythm Patterns
Mauch M and Dixon S
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR 2012)., 163-168.  
01-01-2012
Relevant PublicationCharacterisation of acoustic scenes using a temporally-constrained shift-invariant model
Benetos E, Lagrange M and Dixon S
15th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects, DAFx 2012 Proceedings. 
01-01-2012
Relevant PublicationThewablet: Scanned synthesis on a multi-touch interface
Tubb R, Klapuri A and Dixon S
15th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects, DAFx 2012 Proceedings. 
01-01-2012

2011

Relevant PublicationEthnographic observations of musicologists at the british library: Implications for music information retrieval
Barthet M and Dixon S
Proceedings of the 12th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, ISMIR 2011., 353-358.  
01-12-2011
Relevant PublicationMusic discovery with social networks
Mesnage CS, Rafiq A, Dixon S and Brixtel RP
CEUR Workshop Proceedings. vol. 793, 1-6.  
01-12-2011
Relevant PublicationGuitar tab mining, analysis and ranking
Macrae R and Dixon S
Proceedings of the 12th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, ISMIR 2011., 453-458.  
01-12-2011
Relevant PublicationJoint multi-pitch detection using harmonic envelope estimation for polyphonic music transcription
Benetos E and Dixon S
Ieee Journal On Selected Topics in Signal Processing vol. 5 (6), 1111-1123.  
01-10-2011
Relevant PublicationMultiple-instrument polyphonic music transcription using a convolutive probabilistic model
Benetos E and Dixon S
8th Sound and Music Computing Conference Padova, Italy 6 Jul 2011 - 9 Jul 2011., 19-24.  
01-07-2011
Relevant PublicationAutomatically detecting key modulations in J.S. Bach chorale recordings
Mearns L, Benetos E and Dixon S
8th Sound and Music Computing Conference., 25-32.  
01-07-2011
Relevant PublicationPolyphonic music transcription using note onset and offset detection
Benetos E and Dixon S
ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings., 37-40.  
01-01-2011
Relevant PublicationProbabilistic and Logic-Based Modelling of Harmony
Dixon S, Mauch M and Anglade A
In Cmmr 2010 Post Symposium Proceedings, Springer 1-19. Editors: Kronland-Martinet R, Ystad S, Jensen K and Aramaki M. 
01-01-2011
Relevant PublicationReal-Time Synchronisation of Multimedia Streams in a Mobile Device
Macrae R, Neumann J, Anguera X, Oliver N and Dixon S
International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, Workshop on Advances in Music Information Research., 1-6.  
01-01-2011
Relevant PublicationA TEMPORALLY-CONSTRAINED CONVOLUTIVE PROBABILISTIC MODEL FOR PITCH DETECTION
Benetos E and Dixon S
2011 IEEE WORKSHOP ON APPLICATIONS OF SIGNAL PROCESSING TO AUDIO AND ACOUSTICS (WASPAA)., 133-136.  
01-01-2011
Relevant PublicationMusicology for the masses: Situating new audio technologies for musicology and music education
Stowell D, Barthet M, Dixon S and Sandler M
Digital Engagement 2011 Newcastle 15 Nov 2011 - 17 Nov 2011. 
01-01-2011
Relevant PublicationMIR in school? Lessons from ethnographic observation of secondary school music classes
Stowell D and Dixon S
ISMIR 2011 Miami, Florida, USA 24 Oct 2011 - 28 Oct 2011., 347-352.  
01-01-2011
Relevant PublicationThe temperament police: The truth, the ground truth, and nothing but the truth
Dixon S, Tidhar D and Benetos E
12th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference Miami, Florida, USA 24 Oct 2011 - 28 Oct 2011., 281-286.  
01-01-2011
Relevant PublicationTempest - harpsichord temperament estimation in a Semantic Web environment
Tidhar D, Fazekas G, Mauch M and Dixon S
Journal of New Music Research Special Issue On Music Informatics and The Omras2 Project vol. 39, 327-336.  
01-01-2011

2010

Relevant PublicationMultiple-F0 estimation of piano sounds exploiting spectral structure and temporal evolution
Benetos E and Dixon S
ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Statistical and Perceptual Audition., 13-18.  
01-09-2010
Relevant PublicationTowards a Distributed Research Environment for Music Informatics and Computational Musicology
Dixon S, Sandler M, d'Inverno M and Rhodes C
J New Music Res vol. 39 (4), 291-294.  
01-01-2010
Relevant PublicationSimultaneous Estimation of Chords and Musical Context from Audio
Mauch M and Dixon S
Ieee Transactions On Audio, Speech and Language Processing, Ieee Explore vol. 18 (6), 1280-1289.  
01-01-2010
Relevant PublicationImproving music genre classification using automatically induced harmony rules
Anglade A, Benetos E, Mauch M and Dixon S
Journal of New Music Research vol. 39 (4), 349-361.  
01-01-2010
Relevant PublicationMultiple-F0 Estimation of Piano Sounds Using a Constant-Q Filterbank
Benetos E and Dixon S
ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Statistical And Perceptual Audition Makuhari, Japan 25 Sep 2010., 13-18.  
01-01-2010
Relevant PublicationTowards Music Performer Recognition Using Timbre Features
Chudy M and Dixon S
Third International Conference of Students of Systematic Musicology. 
01-01-2010
Relevant PublicationComputational Modelling of Harmony
Dixon S
International Symposium on Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval Malaga, Spain 21 Jun 2010 - 24 Jun 2010. 
01-01-2010
Relevant PublicationLinkedBrainz: Providing the MusicBrainz Next Generation Schema as Linked Data
Jacobson K, Dixon S and Sandler M
 
01-01-2010
Relevant PublicationA Guitar Tablature Score Follower
Macrae R and Dixon S
IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo Spain 21 Jun 2010 - 24 Jun 2010., 725-726.  
01-01-2010
Relevant PublicationAccurate Real-Time Windowed Time Warping
Macrae R and Dixon S
International Society for Music Information Retrieval conference Utrecht 9 Aug 2010 - 13 Aug 2010., 423-428.  
01-01-2010
Relevant PublicationApproximate Note Transcription for the Improved Identification of Difficult Chords
Mauch M and Dixon S
11th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference Utrecht 9 Aug 2010 - 13 Aug 2010., 135-140.  
01-01-2010
Relevant PublicationCharacterisation of Composer Style Using High Level Musical Features
Mearns L and Dixon S
 
01-01-2010
Relevant PublicationCharacterisation of Composer Style using High-Level Musical Features
Mearns L and Dixon S
11th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Utrecht 9 Aug 2010 - 13 Aug 2010. 
01-01-2010
Relevant PublicationHow Do You Characterise Musical Style?
Mearns L and Dixon S
Third International Conference of Students of Systematic Musicology. 
01-01-2010
Relevant PublicationHigh Precision Frequency Estimation for Harpsichord Tuning Classification
Tidhar D, Mauch M and Dixon S
Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2010 IEEE International Conference on Dallas, Texas 14 Mar 2010 - 19 Mar 2010., 61-64.  
01-01-2010
Relevant PublicationTemperament Estimation as an MIR task
Tidhar D, Fazekas G, Mauch M and Dixon S
Presented at the 11th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR’10), Late-breaking session. 
01-01-2010

2009

Relevant PublicationGenre Classification Using Harmony Rules Induced from Automatic Chord Transcriptions
Anglade A, Ramirez R and Dixon S
International Conference on Music Information Retrieval Kobe, japan 26 Oct 2009 - 30 Oct 2009., 669-674.  
01-01-2009
Relevant PublicationOMRAS-2 Metadata Project 2009
Mauch M, Cannam C, Davies M, Dixon S, Harte C, Kolozali S and Tidhar D
10th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR2009), Late-breaking session. 
01-01-2009
Relevant PublicationUsing Musical Structure to Enhance Automatic Chord Transcription
Mauch M, Noland K and Dixon S
International Society for Music Information Retrieval Kobe, Japan 26 Oct 2009 - 30 Oct 2009., 231-236.  
01-01-2009
Relevant PublicationFirst-Order Logic Classification Models of Musical Genres Based on Harmony
Anglade A and Dixon S
6th Sound and Music Computing Conference., 309–314-309–314.  
01-01-2009
Relevant PublicationAudio Analysis Applications for Music
Khosrow-Pour M and Dixon S
In Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Second Edition, Igi Global 279-287.  
01-01-2009

2008

Relevant Publication'Sense' in Expressive Music Performance: Data Acquisition, Computational Studies and Models
Goebl W, DIXON SE, DePoli G, Friberg A, Bresin R and Widmer G
In Sound to Sense - Sense to Sound: a State of The Art in Sound and Music Computing 195-242. Editors: Polotti P and Rocchesso D. 
01-01-2008
Relevant PublicationA Discrete Mixture Model for Chord Labelling
Mauch M and Dixon S
International Conference on Music Information Retrieval Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 14 Sep 2008 - 18 Sep 2008., 45-50.  
01-01-2008
Relevant PublicationApplying Tools from Natural Language Processing Analysis to Harmony: A Bottom Up Approach
Mauch M, Müllensiefen D, Dixon S and Wiggins G
Conference on Music, Language and the Mind. 
01-01-2008
Relevant PublicationCharacterisation of Harmony with Inductive Logic Programming
Anglade A and Dixon S
International Conference on Music Information Retrieval Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 14 Sep 2008 - 18 Sep 2008., 63-68.  
01-01-2008
Relevant PublicationFrom Toy to Tutor: Note-Scroller is a Game to Teach Music
Macrae R and Dixon S
8th International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. 
01-01-2008
Relevant PublicationCan Statistical Language Models be used for the Analysis of Harmonic Progressions?
Mauch M, Müllensiefen D, Dixon S and Wiggins G
International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition Hokkaido, Japan 25 Aug 2008 - 29 Aug 2008. 
01-01-2008
Relevant PublicationAutomatic Page Turning for Musicians via Real-Time Machine Listening
Arzt A, Widmer G and Dixon S
European Conference on Artificial Intelligence Patras, Greece 21 Jul 2008 - 25 Jul 2008. 
01-01-2008
Relevant PublicationTowards Logic-based Representations of Musical Harmony for Classification, Retrieval and Knowledge Discovery
Anglade A and Dixon S
International Workshop on Machine Learning and Music Helsinki, Finland 5 Jul 2008 - 9 Jul 2008. 
01-01-2008
Relevant PublicationFrom Sound to 'Sense' via Feature Extraction and Machine Learning: Deriving High-Level Descriptors for Characterising Music
Widmer G, DIXON SE, Knees P, Pampalk E and Pohle T
In Sound to Sense - Sense to Sound: a State of The Art in Sound and Music Computing 161-194. Editors: Polotti P and Rocchesso D. 
01-01-2008

2007

Relevant PublicationEvaluation of the audio beat tracking system BeatRoot
Dixon S
JOURNAL OF NEW MUSIC RESEARCH. vol. 36 (1), 39-50.  
01-03-2007
Relevant PublicationDiscovering chord idioms through Beatles and Real Book songs
Mauch M, Dixon S, Harte C, Fields B and Casey M
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR 2007)., 255-258.  
01-01-2007
Relevant PublicationExtraction of Musical Timing from Audio Recordings
DIXON SE
CHARM 4 Symposium on Methods for Analysing Recordings 2007 [Invited]. 
01-01-2007
Relevant PublicationDiscovering Chord Idioms Through Beatles and Real Book Songs
Mauch M, Dixon S, Harte C, Casey M and Fields B
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval., 111–114-111–114.  
01-01-2007
Relevant PublicationProceedings of the 8th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR07)
DIXON SE, Bainbridge D and Typke R
 
01-01-2007
Relevant PublicationTools for Analysis of Musical Expression
DIXON SE
19th International Congress on Acoustics, 2007 [Invited]. 
01-01-2007
Relevant PublicationEvaluation of the Audio Beat Tracking System BeatRoot
DIXON SE
Journal of New Music Research, Taylor and Francis vol. 36 (1), 39-50. Editors: Marsden A. 
01-01-2007
Relevant PublicationEvaluating low-level features for beat classification and tracking
Gouyon F, Dixon S and Widmer G
2007 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Vol IV, Pts 1-3., 1309-1312.  
01-01-2007

2006

Relevant PublicationISMIR 2006 tutorial: Computational rhythm description
Gouyon F and Dixon S
ISMIR 2006 - 7th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval. 
01-12-2006
Relevant PublicationAn experimental comparison of audio tempo induction algorithms
Gouyon F, Klapuri A, Dixon S, Alonso M, Tzanetakis G, Uhle C and Cano P
Ieee T Audio Speech vol. 14 (5), 1832-1844.  
01-09-2006
Relevant PublicationPerceptual smoothness of tempo in expressively performed music
Dixon S, Goebl W and Cambouropoulos E
Music Percept vol. 23 (3), 195-214.  
01-02-2006
Relevant PublicationOnset Detection Revisited
DIXON SE
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects, Montreal, Canada. 
01-01-2006
Relevant PublicationProbabilistic Combination of Features for Music Classification
Flexer A, Gouyon F, DIXON SE and Widmer G
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR 2006), Victoria, BC., 111-114.  
01-01-2006

2005

Relevant PublicationMATCH: A Music Alignment Tool Chest
DIXON SE and Widmer G
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR 2005), London [Best Poster Award]. 
01-09-2005
Relevant PublicationAn On-Line Time Warping Algorithm for Tracking Musical Performances
DIXON SE
Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-05) Edinburgh, Scotland 30 Jul 2005 - 5 Aug 2005., 1727-1728. Editors: Kaelbling LP and Saffiotti A. 
30-07-2005
Relevant PublicationThe 'Air Worm': An Interface for Real-Time Manipulation of Expressive Music Performance
DIXON SE, Goebl W and Widmer G
Proceedings of the 2005 International Computer Music Conference (ICMC2005), Barcelona, Spain., 614-617.  
01-01-2005
Relevant PublicationThe Machine Learning and Intelligent Music Processing Group at the Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OFAI), Vienna
Widmer G, DIXON SE, Flexer A, Goebl W, Knees P, Madsen ST, Pampalk E, Pohle T, Schedl M and Tobudic A
Proceedings of the 2005 International Computer Music Conference (ICMC2005), Barcelona, Spain., 169-172.  
01-01-2005
Relevant PublicationAudio Analysis Applications for Music
DIXON SE
In Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Idea Group 188-196. Editors: Khosrow-Pour M. 
01-01-2005
Relevant PublicationLive Tracking of Musical Performanes using On-Line Time Warping
DIXON SE
Proceedings of the 8th Internaitonal Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx05), Madrid, Spain. 
01-01-2005
Relevant PublicationA review of automatic rhythm description systems
Gouyon F and Dixon S
Comput Music J vol. 29 (1), 34-54.  
01-01-2005

2004

Relevant PublicationRhythm Classification: A Tempo-Based Approach
Gouyon F and DIXON SE
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR'04), Barcelona, Spain., 501-504.  
10-10-2004
Relevant PublicationTowards Characterisation of Music via Rythmic Patterns
DIXON SE, Gouyon F and Widmer G
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR'04), Barcelona, Spain. 
10-10-2004
Relevant PublicationAn Open Source Tool for Semi-Automatic Rhythmic Annotation
Gouyon F, Wack N and DIXON SE
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx'04), Naples, Italy., 193-196.  
05-10-2004
Relevant PublicationDANCE MUSIC CLASSIFICATION: A TEMPO-BASED APPROACH
Gouyon F and Dixon S
ISMIR 2004 - 5th International Symposium on Music Information Retrieval. 
01-01-2004
Relevant PublicationExploring music collections by browsing different views
Pampalk E, Dixon S and Widmer G
Comput Music J vol. 28 (2), 49-62.  
01-01-2004
Relevant PublicationEvaluating Rhythmic Descriptors for Musical Genre Classifcation
Gouyon F, DIXON SE, Pampalk E and Widmer G
Proceedings of the AES 25th International Conference, Audio Engineering Scoiety, London., 196-204.  
01-01-2004
Relevant PublicationAnalysis of Musical Content in Digital Audio
DIXON SE
In Computer Graphics and Multimedia: Applications, Problems and Solutions, Idea Group 214-235. Editors: DiMarco J. 
01-01-2004

2003

Relevant PublicationTempo Induction, Beat Tracking and Rhythm-Based Music Classification
DIXON SE
Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS) Conference 19-22 October 2003, Atlanta, Georgia, USA [Invited]. 
19-10-2003
Relevant PublicationOn the analysis of musical expression in audio signals
Dixon S
STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL FOR MEDIA DATABASES 2003. vol. 5021, 122-132. Editors: Yeung MM, Lienhart RW and Li CS. 
01-01-2003
Relevant PublicationClassification of Dance Music by Periodicity Patterns
DIXON SE, Pampalk E and Widmer G
Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR 2003), Baltimore, MD, USA. 
01-01-2003
Relevant PublicationExploring Music Collections by Browsing Different Views
Pampalk E, DIXON SE and Widmer G
Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR 2003), Baltimore, MD, USA., 201-208.  
01-01-2003
Relevant PublicationIn search of the Horowitz factor
Widmer G, Dixon S, Goebl W, Pampalk E and Tobudic A
Ai Mag vol. 24 (3), 111-130.  
01-01-2003
Relevant PublicationOn the evaluation of perceptual similarity measures for music
Pampalk E, Dixon S and Widmer G
DAFX-03: 6TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL AUDIO EFFECTS, PROCEEDINGS., 7-12. Editors: Davies M. 
01-01-2003
Relevant PublicationTowards Automatic Analysis of Expressive Performance
DIXON SE
Proceedings of the 5th Triennial Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM5), Hanover, Germany. 
01-01-2003

2002

Relevant PublicationPinpointing the Beat: Tapping to Expressive Preformances
DIXON SE and Goebl W
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC7), Sydney, Causal Production, Adelaide. 
01-01-2002
Relevant PublicationThe Performance Worm: Real Time Visualisation of Expression Based on Langer's Tempo-Loudness Animation
DIXON SE, Goebl W and Widmer G
Proceedings of the 2002 International Computer Music Conference (ICMC'2002), Gothenburg, Sweden, edited by M Nordahl (International Computer Music Association, San Fransisco). 
01-01-2002
Relevant PublicationReal-time Tracking and Visualisation of Musical Expression
DIXON SE, Goebl W and Widmer G
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Music and Artifical Intelligence (ICMAI'02), Edinburgh, Scotland, Springer, Berlin., 58-68.  
01-01-2002

2001

Relevant PublicationAnalysis of Tempo Classes in Performances of Mozart Sonatas
Goebl W and DIXON SE
Proceedings of the 7th International Syymposium on Systematic and Comparative Musicology and the 3rd International Conference on Cognitive Musicology, Jyvaeskylae, Finland, 16-19 August 2001., 65-76.  
16-08-2001
Relevant PublicationHuman Preferences for Tempo Smoothness
Cambouropoulos E, DIXON SE, Goebl W and Widmer G
Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Systematic and Comparative Musicology and the 3rd International Conference on Cognitive Musicology Jyvaeskylae, Finland 16 Aug 2001 - 19 Aug 2001., 18-26.  
16-08-2001
Relevant PublicationAutomatic extraction of tempo and beat from expressive performances
Dixon S
J New Music Res vol. 30 (1), 39-58.  
01-03-2001
Relevant PublicationAn Empirical Comparison of Tempo Trackers
DIXON SE
8th Brazilian Symposium on Computer Music, 21st Congress of the Brazilian Computer Society, 2001. 
01-01-2001
Relevant PublicationEmpirical Music Performance Research: OeFAI's Position
Widmer G, DIXON SE, Goebl W, Stamatatos E and Tobudic A
MOSART Workshop on Current Research Directions in Computer Music, Audiovisual Institute, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain. 
01-01-2001
Relevant PublicationBeat Extraction from Expressive Musical Performances
DIXON SE, Goebl W and Cambouropoulos E
2001 Meeting of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition (SMPC2001), Kingston, Ontario, Canada. 
01-01-2001
Relevant PublicationAn Interactive Beat Tracking and Visualisation System
DIXON SE
Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC'2001), La Habana, Cuba, edited by A. Schloss and R. Dannenberg, (International Computer Music Association, San Fransisco), 2001., 215-218.  
01-01-2001
Relevant PublicationLearning to Detect Onsets of Acoustic Piano Tones
DIXON SE
MOSART Workshop on Current Research Directions in Computer Music, edited by C L Buyoli and R Loureiro, Audiovisual Institute, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain. 
01-01-2001

2000

Relevant PublicationBeat tracking with musical knowledge
Dixon S and Cambouropoulos E
ECAI 2000: 14TH EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, PROCEEDINGS. vol. 54, 626-630. Editors: Horn W. 
01-01-2000
Relevant PublicationA Lightweight Multi-agent Musical Beat Tracking System
Dixon S
In Pricai 2000 Topics in Artificial Intelligence, Springer Nature 778-788.  
01-01-2000

1997

Relevant PublicationBeat induction and rhythm recognition
Dixon S
Lecture Notes in Computer Science. vol. 1342, 311-320.  
01-01-1997

1996

Relevant PublicationCocktails and brainwaves experiments with complex and subliminal auditory stimuli
Powers DMW, Clark CR, Dixon SE and Weber DL
Proceedings of the Australian and New Zealand Conference on Intelligent Information Systems., 68-71.  
01-12-1996
Relevant PublicationA Dynamic Modelling Approach to Music Recognition
Dixon S
International Computer Music Conference, ICMC Proceedings., 83-86.  
01-01-1996

1993

Relevant PublicationCONNECTIONS BETWEEN THE ATMS AND AGM BELIEF REVISION
DIXON S and FOO N
IJCAI-93, VOLS 1 AND 2., 534-539.  
01-01-1993

Grants

solid heart iconGrants of specific relevance to the Centre for Multimodal AI
solid heart iconProject Maestro - AI Musical Analysis Platform
Emmanouil Benetos and Simon Dixon
£166,349 Innovate UK
01-07-2024 - 30-06-2026
solid heart iconMusic Performance Assessment and Feedback (MPAF)
Simon Dixon and Emmanouil Benetos
£250,000 Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music
24-06-2024 - 23-12-2025
solid heart iconAIM CDT Yamaha Studentship: Modeling Jazz Piano
Simon Dixon
£60,000 Yamaha Corporation
01-04-2023 - 31-01-2027
solid heart iconAIM CDT Studentship: Tyler McIntosh
Simon Dixon
£140,000 DAACI Ltd
19-09-2022 - 31-12-2026
solid heart iconUKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Artificial Intelligence and Music
Simon Dixon, Emmanouil Benetos, Nicholas Bryan-Kinns, Mark Sandler, Andrew Mcpherson, Mathieu Barthet, George Fazekas, Ekaterina Ivanova, Anna Xambo Sedo and Charalampos Saitis
£6,519,934 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
01-07-2019 - 31-08-2028

solid heart iconHigh Resolution Guitar Transcription
Simon Dixon
£2,500 Innovate UK
13-03-2024 - 15-05-2024
solid heart iconDeep learning technologies for multi-instrument automatic music transcription
Emmanouil Benetos and Simon Dixon
£252,000 Huawei Technologies
15-02-2022 - 14-11-2023
solid heart iconNew Directions in Digital Jazz Studies: Music Information Retrieval and AI Support for Jazz Scholarship in Digital Archives
Simon Dixon
£50,845 AHRC Arts and Humanities Research Council
14-02-2021 - 13-02-2024
solid heart iconIndustry-scale machine listening for music and audio data
Simon Dixon and Emmanouil Benetos
£108,000 Spotify Ltd
14-09-2020 - 31-01-2025
solid heart iconHookslam
Josh Reiss and Simon Dixon
£74,711 Innovate UK
01-05-2020 - 31-07-2021
solid heart iconDevelopment of Next Generation Music Recognition Algorithm for Content Monitoring
Simon Dixon and Emmanouil Benetos
£159,918 Innovate UK
01-11-2019 - 30-06-2021
solid heart iconNew Frontiers in Music Information Processing
Simon Dixon
£857,900 EU Commission - Horizon 2020
01-04-2018 - 31-05-2022
solid heart iconDig that lick
Simon Dixon
£106,091 ESRC Economic and Social Research Council
01-08-2017 - 31-07-2019