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Peer-Reviewed Publications

2019

Open-source Practices for Music Signal Processing Research: Recommendations for Transparent, Sustainable, and Reproducible Audio Research
B. McFee, J. W. Kim, M. Cartwright, J. Salamon, R. M. Bittner, and J. P. Bello. 
IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 36(1):128–137, Jan. 2019.
[IEEE][PDF][BibTeX][Copyright]

Per-Channel Energy Normalization: Why and how
V. Lostanlen, J. Salamon, M. Cartwright, B. McFee, A. Farnsworth, S. Kelling, and J. P. Bello.
IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 26(1): 39–43, Jan. 2019.
​[IEEE][PDF][BibTeX][Copyright]

2018

Adaptive pooling operators for weakly labeled sound event detection
B. Mcfee, J. Salamon, and J. P. Bello
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 26(11): 2180–2193, Nov. 2018.
[IEEE][PDF][BibTeX][Copyright][experiments][code release]


Time Lattice: A Data Structure for the Interactive Visual Analysis of Large Time Series
F. Miranda, M. Lage, H. Doraiswamy, C. Mydlarz, J. Salamon, Y. Lockerman, J. Freire, C. Silva
Computer Graphics Forum (EuroVis '18), 37(3), 2018, 13-22
[Wiley][PDF][BibTeX]

SONYC: A System for the Monitoring, Analysis and Mitigation of Urban Noise Pollution
J. P. Bello, C. Silva, O. Nov, R. L. DuBios, A. Arora, J. Salamon, C. Mydlarz, H. Doraiswamy
Communications of the ACM (CACM), 2018.
[ACM][PDF][BibTeX]

CREPE: A Convolutional Representation for Pitch Estimation
J. W. Kim, J. Salamon, P. Li, and J. P. Bello.
In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Calgary, Canada, Apr. 2018.
[IEEE][PDF][BibTeX][Copyright][code release]


Investigating the Effect of Sound-Event Loudness on Crowdsourced Audio Annotations
M. Cartwright, J. Salamon, A. Seals, O. Nov, and J. P. Bello
In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Calgary, Canada, Apr. 2018.
[IEEE][PDF][BibTeX][Copyright]

Birdvox-Full-Night: A Dataset and Benchmark for Avian Flight Call Detection
V. Lostanlen, J. Salamon, A. Farnsworth, S. Kelling, and J. P. Bello
In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Calgary, Canada, Apr. 2018.​
[IEEE][PDF][BibTeX][Copyright]

​Sound analysis in smart cities
J. P. Bello, C. Mydlarz, and J. Salamon.
In T. Virtanen, M. D. Plumbley, and D. P. W. Ellis, editors, Computational Analysis of Sound Scenes and Events, pages 373–397. Springer International Publishing, 2018.
[Springer][Email me for a PDF][BibTeX]

2017

Seeing sound: Investigating the effects of visualizations and complexity on crowdsourced audio annotations
M. Cartwright, A. Seals, J. Salamon, A. Williams, S. Mikloska, D. MacConnell, E. Law, J. Bello, and O. Nov.
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 1(2), 2017.
[ACM][PDF][BibTeX][Companion site]

Scaper: A Library for Soundscape Synthesis and Augmentation
J. Salamon, D. MacConnell, M. Cartwright, P. Li, and J. P. Bello.
In IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA), New Paltz, NY, USA, Oct. 2017.
[IEEE][PDF][BibTeX][Copyright][code release]

Deep Salience Representations for f0 Estimation in Polyphonic Music
R. M. Bittner, B. McFee, J. Salamon, P. Li, and J. P. Bello.
In 18th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR), Suzhou, China, Oct. 2017.
[ISMIR][PDF][BibTeX]
- ISMIR 2017 Best Student Paper Award

An Analysis/Synthesis Framework for Automatic F0 Annotation of Multitrack Datasets
J. Salamon, R. M. Bittner, J. Bonada, J. J. Bosch, E. Gómez, and J. P.  Bello
In 18th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR), Suzhou, China, Oct. 2017.
[ISMIR][
PDF][BibTeX]

Pitch Contours as a Mid-Level Representation for Music Informatics
R. M. Bittner, J. Salamon, J. J. Bosch, and J. P. Bello.
In AES Conference on Semantic Audio, Erlangen, Germany, Jun. 2017.
[AES][PDF][BibTeX]
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AES International Conference on Semantic Audio 2017 Best Student Paper Award

​Deep Convolutional Neural Networks and Data Augmentation For Environmental Sound Classification
​J. Salamon and J. P. Bello
IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 24(3), pages 279 - 283, 2017.
[IEEE][PDF][BibTeX][Copyright]

Fusing Shallow and Deep Learning for Bioacoustic Bird Species Classification
J. Salamon, J. P. Bello, A. Farnsworth and S. Kelling
I​n IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), New Orleans, USA, March 2017.

[IEEE][PDF][BibTeX][Copyright]

2016

​Towards the Automatic Classification of Avian Flight Calls for Bioacoustic Monitoring
J. Salamon , J. P. Bello, A. Farnsworth, M. Robbins, S. Keen, H. Klinck and S. Kelling
PLOS ONE 11(11): e0166866, 2016. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0166866. 
[PLOS ONE][PDF][BibTeX]

​The Implementation of Low-cost Urban Acoustic Monitoring Devices
C. Mydlarz, J. Salamon and J. P. Bello
Applied Acoustics, special issue on Acoustics for Smart Cities, 2016.
[Elsevier][PDF][BibTex]

Ensemble: A Hybrid Human-Machine System for Generating Melody Scores From Audio
T. Tse, J. Salamon, A. Williams, H. Jiang and E. Law
Proc. 17th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2016), New York City, USA, Aug. 2016.
[ISMIR][PDF][BibTex]

A Comparison of Melody Extraction Methods Based on Source-Filter Modelling
J. J. Bosch, R. M. Bittner, J. Salamon, and E. Gómez
Proc. 17th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2016), New York City, USA, Aug. 2016.
[ISMIR][PDF][BibTex]

2015

Melody Extraction by Contour Classification
R. Bittner, J. Salamon, S. Essid and J. P. Bello
Proc. 16th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2015), Malaga, Spain, Oct. 2015.
[ISMIR][PDF][BibTex]
- ISMIR 2015 Best Oral Presentation Award (news item)

Feature Learning with Deep Scattering for Urban Sound Analysis
J. Salamon and J. P. Bello
2015 European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Nice, France, August 2015.
[EURASIP][PDF][BibTex]

Analyzing the influence of pitch quantization and note segmentation on singing voice alignment in the context of audio-based Query-by-Humming
J. Valero-Mas, J. Salamon, and E. Gómez
In Sound and Music Computing Conference, Maynooth, Ireland, Jul. 2015.
[SMC][PDF][BibTex]

Computer-aided melody note transcription using the Tony software: Accuracy and efficiency
M. Mauch, C. Cannam, R. Bittner, G. Fazekas, J. Salamon, J. Dai, J. P. Bello, and S. Dixon
In First International Conference on Technologies for Music Notation and Representation (TENOR), Paris, France, May 2015.
[TENOR][PDF][BibTex]

Unsupervised Feature Learning for Urban Sound Classification
J. Salamon and J. P. Bello
In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Brisbane, Australia, April 2015.
[IEEE][DOI][PDF][BibTeX][Copyright]

2014

A Dataset and Taxonomy for Urban Sound Research
J. Salamon, C. Jacoby and J. P. Bello
In Proc. 22nd ACM International Conference on Multimedia, Orlando, USA, Nov. 2014.
[ACM][PDF][BibTeX]

mir_eval: A Transparent Implementation of Common MIR Metrics
C. Raffel, B. McFee, E. J. Humphrey, J. Salamon, O. Nieto, D. Liang and D. P. W. Ellis
Proc. 15th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2014), Taipei, Taiwan, Oct. 2014.
[ISMIR][PDF][BibTeX]
- ISMIR 2014 Best Poster Presentation Award (news item)

MedleyDB: A Multitrack Dataset for Annotation-Intensive MIR Research
R. M. Bittner, J. Salamon, M. Tierney, M. Mauch, C. Cannam and J. P. Bello
In Proc. 15th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2014), Taipei, Taiwan, Oct. 2014.
[ISMIR][PDF][BibTeX]

JAMS: A JSON Annotated Music Specification for Reproducible MIR Research
E. J. Humphrey, J. Salamon, O. Nieto, J. Forsyth, R. M. Bittner and J. P. Bello
In Proc. 15th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2014), Taipei, Taiwan, October 2014.
[ISMIR][PDF][BibTeX]

Sensing Urban Soundscapes
T. H. Park, J. Turner, M. Musick, J. H. Lee, C. Jacoby, C. Mydlarz and J. Salamon
In Proc. EDBT/ICDT Workshops, pp. 375-382, Mar. 2014.
[CEUR][PDF][BibTeX]

Melody Extraction from Polyphonic Music Signals: Approaches, Applications and Challenges
J. Salamon, E. Gómez, D. P. W. Ellis and G. Richard
IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 31(2):118-134, Mar. 2014. 

[IEEE][DOI][PDF][BibTeX][Copyright]

Automatic Tonic Identification in Indian Art Music: Approaches and Evaluation
S. Gulati, A. Bellur, J. Salamon, H. G. Ranjani, V. Ishwar, H. A. Murthy, and X. Serra
J. of New Music Research, 43(1):53–71, Mar. 2014.

[Taylor & Francis][DOI][PDF][BibTeX]

2013

ESSENTIA: an Audio Analysis Library for Music Information Retrieval
D. Bogdanov, N. Wack, E. Gómez, S. Gulati, P. Herrera, O. Mayor, G. Roma, J. Salamon, J. Zapata and X. Serra
In Proc. 14th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2013), Curitiba, Brazil, Nov. 2013.
[ISMIR][PDF][BibTeX]

ESSENTIA: an Open-Source Library for Sound and Music Analysis
D. Bogdanov, N. Wack, E Gómez, S. Gulati, P. Herrera, O. Mayor, G. Roma, J. Salamon, J. Zapata and X. Serra
In 21st ACM Int. Conf. on Multimedia, Barcelona, Spain, Oct. 2013.
[ACM][PDF][BibTeX] 
- ACM Multimedia 2013 Best Open Source Software Award

Tonal Representations for Music Retrieval: From Version Identification to Query-by-Humming
J. Salamon, J. Serrà and E. Gómez

Int. J. of Multimedia Information Retrieval, special issue on Hybrid Music Information Retrieval, 2(1):45-58, Mar. 2013.

[Springer][DOI][PDF][BibTeX]

2012

Statistical Characterisation of Melodic Pitch Contours and its Application for Melody Extraction
J. Salamon, G. Peeters and A. Röbel
In Proc. 13th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2012), Porto, Portugal, October 2012.
[ISMIR][PDF][BibTeX]

Current Challenges in the Evaluation of Predominant Melody Extraction Algorithms
J. Salamon and J. Urbano
In Proc. 13th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2012), Porto, Portugal, October 2012.
[ISMIR][PDF][BibTeX]

A Multipitch Approach to Tonic Identification in Indian Classical Music
J. Salamon, S. Gulati and X. Serra
In Proc. 13th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2012), Porto, Portugal, October 2012.
[ISMIR][PDF][BibTeX]

Predominant Fundamental Frequency Estimation vs Singing Voice Separation for the Automatic Transcription of Accompanied Flamenco Singing
E. Gómez, F. Cañadas, J. Salamon, J. Bonada, P. Vera and P. Cabañas
In Proc. 13th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2012), Porto, Portugal, October 2012.
[ISMIR][PDF][BibTeX]

Tracking Melodic Patterns in Flamenco Singing by Analyzing Polyphonic Music Recordings
A. Pikrakis, F. Gómez, S. Oramas, J. M. D. Báñez, J. Mora, F. Escobar, E. Gómez and J. Salamon
In Proc. 13th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2012), Porto, Portugal, October 2012.
[ISMIR][PDF][BibTeX]

Melody Extraction from Polyphonic Music Signals using Pitch Contour Characteristics
J. Salamon and E. Gómez
IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 20(6):1759-1770, Aug. 2012.

[IEEE][DOI][PDF][BibTeX][Copyright]

A Two-stage Approach for Tonic Identification in Indian Art Music
S. Gulati, J. Salamon and X. Serra
in 2nd CompMusic Workshop, Istanbul, Turkey, July 2012.

Melody, Bass Line, and Harmony Representations for Music Version Identification
J. Salamon, J. Serrà and E. Gómez
In Proc. 21st International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2012): 4th International Workshop on Advances in Music Information Research (AdMIRe 2012), Lyon, France, April 2012.
[ACM][DOI][PDF][BibTeX]

Automatic Transcription of Flamenco Singing from Monophonic and Polyphonic Music Recordings
E. Gómez, J. Bonada and J. Salamon
2nd International Workshop on Folk Music Analysis (FMA), 3rd Interdisciplinary Conference on Flamenco Research (INFLA), Sevilla, Spain, April 2012.

Automatic Detection of Melodic Patterns in Flamenco Singing by Analyzing Polyphonic Music Recordings
F. Gómez, A. Pikrakis, J. Mora, J. M. Díaz-Bañez, E. Gómez, F. Escobar, S. Oramas and J. Salamon
2nd International Workshop on Folk Music Analysis (FMA), 3rd Interdisciplinary Conference on Flamenco Research (INFLA), Sevilla, Spain, April 2012.

Musical Genre Classification using Melody Features Extracted from Polyphonic Music Signals
J. Salamon, B. Rocha and E. Gómez
In Proc. IEEE Int. Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Kyoto, Japan, Mar. 25-30, 2012.
[IEEE][DOI][PDF][BibTeX][Copyright]

2011 and prior

Sinusoid Extraction and Salience Function Design for Predominant Melody Estimation
J. Salamon, E. Gómez and J. Bonada
In Proc. 14th Int. Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx-11), Paris, France, September 19-23, 2011.
[DAFx][PDF][BibTeX]

A Quantitative Evaluation of a Two Stage Retrieval Approach for a Melodic Query by Example System
J. Salamon and M. Rohrmeier
In Proc. 10th Int. Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2009), pages 255-260, Kobe, Japan, 2009.
[ISMIR][PDF][BibTeX]

A Chroma-based Salience Function for Melody and Bass Line Estimation from Music Audio Signals
J. Salamon and E. Gómez
In 6th Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC 2009), pages 331-336, Porto, Portugal, 2009.
[SMC][PDF][BibTeX]

Other contributions

Pitch Analysis for Active Music Discovery
J. Salamon
Invited talk, Machine Learning for Music Discovery workshop, International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), invited talk, New York City, NY, USA, June 2016.
[PDF][Slides]

Pump Up The JAMS: V0.2 And Beyond

B. McFee, E. J. Humphrey, O. Nieto, J. Salamon, R. Bittner, J. Forsyth, J. P. Bello
Technical report, October 2015.
[PDF]

MIR.EDU: An Open-Source Library for Teaching Sound and Music Description
J. Salamon and E. Gómez
Late breaking/demo extended abstract, 15th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2014), Taipei, Taiwan, October 2014.
[PDF]

Melody Extraction from Polyphonic Music: MIREX 2011
J. Salamon and E. Gómez
In Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange (MIREX) 2011, extended abstract, Miami, USA, 2011.
- Obtained the highest overall accuracy for melody extraction in MIREX 2011.

Melody Extraction from Polyphonic Music Audio
J. Salamon and E. Gómez
In Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange (MIREX) 2010, extended abstract, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 2010.

Theses

Melody Extraction from Polyphonic Music Signals
J. Salamon
Ph.D. thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain, 2013.

[MTG][EURASIP][PDF][BibTeX]

Chroma-based Predominant Melody and Bass Line Extraction from Music Audio Signals
J. Salamon
Master’s thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, 2008.

[MTG][PDF][BibTeX]

MuSearch Query by Example Search Engine
J. Salamon
Undergraduate dissertation, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, 2007.

[PDF]
 
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