Publications

K. K. Ganguli and P. Rao. "Towards Computational Modeling of the Ungramatical in Raga performance". The 18th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2017), October 23-27 2017, Suzhou (China).

J. Ch. Ross, A. Mishra, K. K. Ganguli,  P. Bhattacharyya and P. Rao, "Identifying Raga Similarity Through embeddings learned from Compositions’ notation." 18th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2017), October 23-27 2017, Suzhou (China).

J. Sebastian and H. Murthy, “Onset Detection in Composition Items of Carnatic Music." 18th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2017), October 23-27 2017, Suzhou (China).

V. Viraraghavan, R. Aravind and H. Murthy, “A Statistical Analysis of Gamakas in Carnatic Music.” 18th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2017), October 23-27 2017, Suzhou (China).

R. Gong, J. Pons, and X. Serra. “Audio to Score Matching by Combining Phonetic and Duration Information”. The 18th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2017), October 23-27 2017, Suzhou (China).

R. Caro Repetto and X. Serra. “A collection of music scores for corpus based jingju singing research”. 18th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2017), October 23-27 2017, Suzhou (China).

A. Srinivasamurthy, A. Holzapfel, and X. Serra. “Informed Automatic Meter Analysis of Music Recordings”. 18th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2017), October 23-27 2017, Suzhou (China).

G. Dzhambazov, A. Holzapfel, A. Srinivasamurthy, and X. Serra. “Metrical-accent Aware Vocal Onset Detection in Polyphonic Audio”. 18th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2017), October 23-27 2017, Suzhou (China).

J. Pons, R. Gong, and X. Serra. “Score-informed Syllable Segmentation for A Cappella Singing Voice with Convolutional Neural Networks”. 18th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2017), October 23-27 2017, Suzhou (China).

S. Zhang, R. Caro Repetto, and X. Serra. “Understanding the expressive functions of jingju metrical patterns through lyrics text mining”. 18th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2017), October 23-27 2017, Suzhou (China).

Gong, R. & Serra X. “Identification of potential Music Information Retrieval technologies for computer-aided jingju singing training.” China Conference on Sound and Music Technology (CSMT 2017), October 21-22 2017, Suzhou (China).

R. Rajan. Estimation of Pitch in Speech and Music Signals Using Modified Group Delay Functions. PhD thesis. Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai (India). 2017.

G. Dzhambazov. Knowledge-based Probabilistic Modeling for Tracking Lyrics in Music Audio Signals. PhD Thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (Spain). 2017.

K. K. Ganguli, A. Lele, S. Pinjani, Preeti Rao, A. Srinivasamurthy, S. Gulati. "Melodic Shape Stylization for Robust and Efficient Motif Detection in Hindustani Vocal Music". National Conference for Communications, March 2-4 2017, Chennai (India).

R. Gong, N. Obin, G. Dzhambazov, and X. Serra. “Score-Informed Syllable Segmentation for Jingju a Cappella Singing Voice with Mel-Frequency Intensity Profiles”. International Workshop on Folk Music Analysis, June 14-16 2017, Malaga (Spain).

H. S. Atlı, S. Şentürk, B. Bozkurt, and X. Serra. "Synthesis of Turkish Makam Music Scores Using An Adaptive Tuning Approach". International Workshop on Folk Music Analysis, June 14-16 2017, Malaga (Spain).

X. Serra. "The computational study of a musical culture through its digital traces". Acta Musicologica. 2017; 89(1):24-44.

S. Şentürk. Computational Analysis of Audio Recordings and Music Scores for the Description and Discovery of Ottoman-Turkish Makam Music. PhD Thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (Spain). 2016.

G. K. Koduri. Towards a multimodal knowledge base for Indian art music: A case study with melodic intonation. PhD Thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (Spain). 2016.

A. Srinivasamurthy. A Data-driven Bayesian Approach to Automatic Rhythm Analysis of Indian Art Music. PhD Thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (Spain). 2016.

S. Gulati. Computational Approaches for Melodic Description in Indian Art Music Corpora. PhD Thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (Spain). 2016.

K. K. Ganguli and P. Rao. "Perceptual Anchor or attractor: How do Musicians perceive Raga Phrases?". 22nd Frontiers of Research on Speech and Music (FRSM 2016), November 11-12, 2016, Baripada (India).

A. Lele, S. Pinjani, K. K. Ganguli, and P. Rao. "Improved Melodic Sequence Matching for Query Based Searching in Indian Classical Music". 22nd Frontiers of Research on Speech and Music (FRSM 2016), November 11-12, 2016, Baripada (India).

Y. Yang.  Structure Analysis of Beijing Opera Arias. Master Thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (Spain). 2016.

R. Caro Repetto and X. Serra. "NACTA: construyendo el futuro de la tradición del jingju". XIV congreso de la Sociedad de Etnomusicología, IX congreso de IASPM España. October 20th-22nd 2016, Madrid (Spain).

B. Uyar. Türk Makam Müziği Usulleri İçin İnteraktif Eğitim Aracı. Master Thesis, Bahçeşehir University, Istanbul (Turkey). 2016

S. Şentürk and X. Serra. "Composition Identification in Ottoman-Turkish Makam Music Using Transposition-Invariant Partial Audio-Score Alignment". 13th Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC 2016), August 31st - September 3rd 2016, Hamburg (Germany). 

R. Gong, Y. Yang, and X. Serra.  "Pitch Contour Segmentation for Computer-aided Jingju Singing Training". 13th Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC 2016), August 31st - September 3rd 2016, Hamburg (Germany). 

S. Şentürk, G. K. Koduri, and X Serra. "A Score-Informed Computational Description of Svaras Using a Statistical Model". 13th Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC 2016), August 31st - September 3rd 2016, Hamburg (Germany). 

S. Gulati, J. Serrà, K. K. Ganguli, S. Şentürk, and X. Serra. “Time-Delayed Melody Surfaces for Rāga Recognition”. 17th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR'16), August 7th-11th 2016, New York City (USA).

G. Dzhambazov, A. Srinivasamurthy, S. Şentürk, and X. Serra. “On the Use of Note Onsets for Improved Lyrics-to-audio Alignment in Turkish Makam Music”. 17th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR'16), August 7th-11th 2016, New York City (USA).

K. K. Ganguli, S. Gulati, X. Serra and P. Rao. “Data-driven Exploration of Melodic Structures in Hindustani Music”. 17th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR'16), August 7th-11th 2016, New York City (USA).

G. Dzhambazov and X. Serra. "Singing Voice Separation by Harmonic Modeling". Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange (MIREX) 2016, New York City (USA).

Vinutha T. P., S. Sankagiri, K. K. Ganguli, and P. Rao. “Structural Segmentation and Visualization of Sitar and Sarod Concert Audio”. 17th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR'16), August 7th-11th 2016, New York City (USA).

K. K. Ganguli and P. Rao. "Exploring melodic similarity in Hindustani classical music through the synthetic manipulation of raga phrases". Cognitively Based Music Informatics Research Seminar (CogMIR 2016), August 12th 2016 New York (USA).

A. Karakurt, S. Şentürk, and X. Serra. "MORTY: A Toolbox for Mode Recognition and Tonic Identification". 3rd International Digital Libraries for Musicology Workshop (DLfM 2016), August 12th 2016, New York City (USA).

S. Şentürk and X. Serra. “A Method for Structural Analysis of Ottoman-Turkish Makam Music Scores”, 6th International Workshop on Folk Music Analysis (FMA 2016), June 15th-17th 2016, Dublin (Ireland).

G. Dzhambazov, Y. Yang, R. Caro Repetto, and X. Serra.  “Automatic Alignment of Long Syllables In A cappella Beijing Opera”, 6th International Workshop on Folk Music Analysis (FMA 2016), June 15th-17th 2016, Dublin (Ireland).

R. Caro Repetto and X. Serra. "Melodic transformation processes in the arrangements of jingju banshi", Fourth International Conference On Analytical Approaches To World Music (AAWM 2016), June 8th-11th, 2016, New York (USA).

J. Sebastian and H. Murthy. "Group Delay based Music Source Separation using Deep Recurrent Networks", International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications (SPCOM 2016), June 12th-15h 2016, Bangalore (India).

S. Gulati, J. Serrà, V. Ishwar, and X. Serra. “Discovering Rāga Motifs by Characterizing Communities in Networks of Melodic Patterns”, 41st IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2016), March 20th-25th 2016, Shanghai (China).

S. Gulati, J. Serrà, V. Ishwar, S. Şentürk, and X. Serra. “Phrase-based Rāga Recognition Using Vector Space Modeling”, 41st IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2016), March 20th-25th 2016, Shanghai (China).

A. Srinivasamurthy, A. Holzapfel, A. T. Cemgil, and X. Serra. “A generalized Bayesian model for tracking long metrical cycles in acoustic music signals”, 41st IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2016), March 20th-25th 2016, Shanghai (China). [Companion page]

K. Sekhar PV, S. Sankaran and H. Murthy. "Segmentation of Carnatic Music Items using KL2, GMM and CFB Energy Feature", Twenty Second National Conference on Communications (NCC 2016), March 4th-6th 2016, Guwahati, Assam (India).

A. Holzapfel, U. Şimşekli, S. Şentürk, and T. Cemgil.  "Section-level Modeling of Musical Audio for Linking Performances to Scores in Turkish Makam Music". IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP). April 19th, 2015, Brisbane (Australia).

P. Verma, Vinutha T. P., P. Pandit, P. Rao. "Structural Segmentation of Hindustani Concert Audio with Posterior Features". IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP). April 19th, 2015, Brisbane (Australia).

P . A. Manoj Kumar, J. Sebastian, H. A. Murthy. "Musical Onset Detecction on Carnatic Percussion Instruments". Twenty First National Conference on Communications. February 27th, 2015, Mumbai (India).

Kuriakose, Ch. Kumar, P. Sarala, H. A. Murthy, and U. Sivaraman. "Akshara Transcription of Mrudangam Strokes in Carnatic Music", Twenty First National Conference on Communications. February 27th, 2015, Mumbai (India).

G. K. Koduri. "Culture-aware approaches to modeling and description of intonation using multimodal data". International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management. Nov. 24th 2014, Linkoping (Sweden).

S. Gulati, J. Serrà, V. Ishwar and X. Serra.  "Mining Melodic Patterns in Large Audio Collections of Indian Art Music". International Conference on Signal Image Technology & Internt Based Systems - Multimedia Information Retrieval and Applications. Nov. 23rd-27th 2014, Marrakesh (Morocco).

H. S. Atlı, B. Uyar, S. Şentürk, B. Bozkurt and X.  Serra. "Audio Feature Extraction for Exploring Turkish Makam Music". 3rd International Conference on Audio Technologies for Music and Media, Nov. 12th 2014, Ankara (Turkey).

R. Caro Repetto and X. Serra. “Creating a Corpus of Jingju (Beijing Opera) Music and Possibilities for Melodic Analysis”. 15th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, Oct. 27th-31st 2014, Taipei (Taiwan).

S. Zhang, R. Caro Repetto and X. Serra. “Study of the Similarity Between Linguistic Tones and Melodic Pitch Contours in Beijing Opera Singing”. 15th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, Oct. 27th-31st 2014, Taipei (Taiwan).

A. Holzapfel, F. Krebs, and A. Srinivasamurthy. “Tracking the "odd": meter inference in a culturally diverse music corpus”. 15th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, Oct. 27th-31st 2014, Taipei (Taiwan).

A. Srinivasamurthy, R. Caro Repetto, H. Sundar, and X. Serra. “Transcription and Recognition of Syllable based Percussion Patterns: The Case of Beijing Opera”. 15th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, Oct. 27th-31st 2014, Taipei (Taiwan).

J. Urbano, D. Bogdanov, P. Herrera, E. Gómez, and X. Serra. “What is the Effect of Audio Quality on the Robustness of MFCCs and Chroma Features?”. 15th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, Oct. 27th-31st 2014, Taipei (Taiwan).

S. Dutta and H. Murthy. "Discovering Typical Motifs of a Raga From One-Liners of Songs in Carnatic Music". 15th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, Oct. 27th-31st 2014, Taipei (Taiwan).

A. Srinivasamurthy, G. K. Koduri, S. Gulati, V. Ishwar, and X. Serra. "Corpora for Music Information Research in Indian Art Music". International Computer Music Conference/Sound and Music Computing Conference, September 14th-20th 2014, Athens (Greece). [Companion page]

S. Gulati, J. Serrà, K. K. Ganguli, and X. Serra.  "Landmark Detection in Hindustani Music Melodies". International Computer Music Conference/Sound and Music Computing Conference, September 14th-20th 2014, Athens (Greece).

M. Sordo, A. Chaachoo, and X. Serra.  “Creating Corpora for Computational Research in Arab-Andalusian Music”. 1st International Digital Libraries for Musicology workshop, Sept. 12th 2014, London (UK).

B. Uyar, H. Sercan Atlı, S. Şentürk, B. Bozkurt, and X. Serra. “A Corpus for Computational Research of Turkish Makam Music”. 1st International Digital Libraries for Musicology workshop, Sept. 12th 2014, London (UK).

A. Porter and X. Serra.  "An analysis and storage system for music research datasets". 1st International Digital Libraries for Musicology workshop, Sept. 12th 2014, London (UK).

V. Ishwar. Pitch Estimation of the Predominant Vocal Melody from Heterophonic Music Audio Recordings. Master Thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra.

G. Dzhambazov, S. Şentürk, and X. Serra.  "Automatic lyrics-to-audio alignment in classical Turkish music". 4th International Workshop on Folk Music Analysis, June 12th 2014, Istanbul (Turkey).

S. Şentürk, S. Gulati, and X. Serra. "Towards Alignment of Score and Audio Recordings of Ottoman-Turkish Makam Music". 4th International Workshop on Folk Music Analysis, June 12th 2014, Istanbul (Turkey).

M. Tian, A. Srinivasamurthy, M. Sandler, and X. Serra. "A Study of Instrument-wise Onset Detection in Beijing Opera Percussion Ensembles". IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2014. [Companion page]

A. Srinivasamurthy and X. Serra. "A Supervised Approach to Hierarchical Metrical Cycle Tracking from Audio Music Recordings". IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2014, Florence (Italy) [Companion page, Dataset]

X. Serra. "Computational Approaches to the Art Music Traditions of India and Turkey". Journal of New Music Research, Volume 43, Number 1, pp. 1-2, 2014.

B. Bozkurt, R. Ayangil, and A. Holzapfel. "Computational Analysis of Turkish Makam Music: Review of State-of-the-Art and Challenges". Journal of New Music Research, Volume 43, Number 1, pp. 3-23, 2014.

S. Rao and P. Rao. "An Overview of Hindustani Music in the Context of Computational Musicology". Journal of New Music Research,  Volume 43, Number 1, pp. 24-33, 2014.

S. Şentürk, A. Holzapfel, and X. Serra. "Linking Scores and Audio Recordings in Makam Music of Turkey".  Journal of New Music Research, Volume 43, Number 1, pp. 34-52, 2014.

S. Gulati, A. Bellur, J. Salamon, Ranjani H.G., V. Ishwar, H. A. Murthy, and X. Serra. "Automatic Tonic Identification in Indian Art Music: Approaches and Evaluation".  Journal of New Music Research, Volume 43, Number 1, pp. 53-71, 2014.

A. Srinivasamurthy, A. Holzapfel, and X. Serra. "In Search of Automatic Rhythm Analysis Methods for Turkish and Indian Art Music".  Journal of New Music Research, Volume 43, Number 1, pp. 94-114, 2014. [Companion page]

P. Rao, J. Ch. Ross, K. K. Ganguli, V. Pandit, V. Ishwar, A. Bellur, and H. A. Murthy. "Classification of Melodic Motifs in Raga Music with Time-series Matching". Journal of New Music Research,  Volume 43, Number 1, pp. 115-131, 2014.

E. Ünal, B. Bozkurt, and M. K. Karaosmanoglu. "A Hierarchical Approach to Makam Classification of Turkish Makam Music, Using Symbolic Data". Journal of New Music Research,  Volume 43, Number 1, pp. 132-146, 2014.

F. Font, J. Serrà, and X. Serra. "Audio clip classification using social tags and the effect of tag expansion".  AES 53rd International Conference: Semantic Audio, January 27-29th 2014, London (UK).  

X. Serra. "Creating Research Corpora for the Computational Study of Music: the case of the CompMusic Project", AES 53rd International Conference: Semantic Audio, January 27-29th 2014, London (UK).

A. Anantapadmanabhan, J. Bello, R. Krishnan, and H. Murthy. "Tonic-Independent Stroke Transcription of the Mridangam", AES 53rd International Conference: Semantic Audio, January 27-29th 2014, London (UK).

B. Bozkurt. "Pitch Histogram based Analysis of Makam Music in Turkey", Les corpus de l’oralité, edited by Mondher Ayari and Antonio Lai, pp. 291-298. Sampzon: Delatour, 2014.

Y. B. Tamer, B. Bozkurt, "A microtonal tuning method: Test & discussion on the use of microtonal intervals for the performance of traditional Turkish music", Journal of Interdisciplinary Music Studies (JIMS), Volume 7, Number 1&2, pp. 73-88, 2013.

Y. B. Tamer and B. Bozkurt. "A System for Matching the Tuning in a Recording", Proceedings of the ATMM 2013, Oct 31st - Nov. 1st. 2013, Ankara (Turkey).

P. Rao, J. Ch. Ross, and K. K. Ganguli. "Distinguishing Raga-specific Intonation of Phrases with Audio Analysis", Journal of ITC Sangeet Research Academy, Vol. 26-27, pp. 58-69, 2013.

G. K. Koduri and X. Serra.  "A knowledge-based approach to computational analysis of melody in Indian art music", First International Workshop on Semantic Music and Media (SMAM), Oct. 21st 2013, Sydney (Australia).

K. Chen. Characterization of Pitch Intonation of Beijing Opera. Master Thesis, Music Technology Group, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, 2013.

A. Porter, M. Sordo, and X. Serra. "Dunya: A System for Browsing Audio Music Collections Exploiting Cultural Context", Int. Soc. for Music Information Retrieval Conf. (ISMIR), Nov. 4-8th, 2013, Curitiba (Brazil).

D. Bogdanov, N. Wack, E. Gómez, S. Gulati, P. Herrera, O. Mayor, G. Roma, J. Salamon, J. Zapata, and X. Serra. "ESSENTIA: an Audio Analysis Library for Music Information Retrieval", Int. Soc. for Music Information Retrieval Conf. (ISMIR), Nov. 4-8th, 2013, Curitiba (Brazil).

S. Şentürk, S. Gulati, and X. Serra. "Score Informed Tonic Identification for Makam Music of Turkey", Int. Soc. for Music Information Retrieval Conf. (ISMIR), Nov. 4-8th, 2013, Curitiba (Brazil).

P. Sarala and H. Murthy. "Inter and Intra Item Segmentation of Continuous Audio Recordings of Carnatic Music for Archival", Int. Soc. for Music Information Retrieval Conf. (ISMIR), Nov. 4-8th, 2013, Curitiba (Brazil).

E. Benetos and A. Holzapfel. "Automatic Transcription of Turkish Makam Music", Int. Soc. for Music Information Retrieval Conf. (ISMIR), Nov. 4-8th, 2013, Curitiba (Brazil).