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Thursday, October 28 • 9:00pm - Friday, December 3 • 6:00pm
WaveBeat: End-to-end beat and downbeat tracking in the time domain

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While deep learning approaches for beat and downbeat tracking have brought advancements, these approaches continue to rely on hand-crafted, subsampled spectral features as input, restricting the information available to the model. In this work, we propose WaveBeat, an end-to-end approach for joint beat and downbeat tracking operating directly in the time domain. This method forgoes engineered spectral features, and instead produces beat and downbeat predictions directly from the waveform, the first of its kind for this task. Our model utilizes temporal convolutional networks (TCNs) operating on waveforms that achieve a very large receptive field (~30s) at audio sample rates. This is achieved in a memory efficient manner by employing rapidly growing dilation factors, which enable a relatively shallower network architecture. Combined with a straightforward data augmentation strategy, our method outperforms previous state-of-the-art methods on some datasets, while producing comparable results on others.

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avatar for Christian J. Steinmetz

Christian J. Steinmetz

PhD Researcher, Queen Mary University of London
I am a PhD student working with Prof. Joshua D. Reiss within the Centre for Digital Music at Queen Mary University of London. I research applications of machine learning in audio with a focus on differentiable signal processing. Currently, my research revolves around high fidelity audio and music production, which involves enhancing audio, intelligent systems for au... Read More →
avatar for Joshua Reiss

Joshua Reiss

Queen Mary University of London
Josh Reiss is a Professor with the Centre for Digital Music at Queen Mary University of London. He has published more than 200 scientific papers, and co-authored the book Intelligent Music Production, and textbook Audio Effects: Theory, Implementation and Application. He is the President-Elect... Read More →


Thursday October 28, 2021 9:00pm - Friday December 3, 2021 6:00pm EST
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