Solos: A Dataset for Audio-Visual Music Analysis
This provides a cleaner, manually curated dataset for researchers in audio-visual analysis, though it is incremental as it builds upon existing datasets like URMP.
The authors introduced Solos, a dataset of solo musical performance videos for audio-visual machine learning tasks, and demonstrated its utility by training source-separation models on it that were evaluated on the URMP dataset.
In this paper, we present a new dataset of music performance videos which can be used for training machine learning methods for multiple tasks such as audio-visual blind source separation and localization, cross-modal correspondences, cross-modal generation and, in general, any audio-visual self-supervised task. These videos, gathered from YouTube, consist of solo musical performances of 13 different instruments. Compared to previously proposed audio-visual datasets, Solos is cleaner since a big amount of its recordings are auditions and manually checked recordings, ensuring there is no background noise nor effects added in the video post-processing. Besides, it is, up to the best of our knowledge, the only dataset that contains the whole set of instruments present in the URMP\cite{URPM} dataset, a high-quality dataset of 44 audio-visual recordings of multi-instrument classical music pieces with individual audio tracks. URMP was intented to be used for source separation, thus, we evaluate the performance on the URMP dataset of two different source-separation models trained on Solos. The dataset is publicly available at https://juanfmontesinos.github.io/Solos/