Learning Audio - Sheet Music Correspondences for Score Identification and Offline Alignment
This addresses the challenge of cross-modality matching in music information retrieval, though it appears incremental as it applies existing neural network methods to a specific domain.
The paper tackles the problem of matching audio excerpts to sheet music images for retrieval and alignment tasks, demonstrating feasibility on classical piano music from five composers.
This work addresses the problem of matching short excerpts of audio with their respective counterparts in sheet music images. We show how to employ neural network-based cross-modality embedding spaces for solving the following two sheet music-related tasks: retrieving the correct piece of sheet music from a database when given a music audio as a search query; and aligning an audio recording of a piece with the corresponding images of sheet music. We demonstrate the feasibility of this in experiments on classical piano music by five different composers (Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Chopin), and additionally provide a discussion on why we expect multi-modal neural networks to be a fruitful paradigm for dealing with sheet music and audio at the same time.