@inproceedings{fe3885166e5543ec8681d2fadcdd94d7,
title = "A Music Structure Informed Downbeat Tracking System Using Skip-chain Conditional Random Fields and Deep Learning",
abstract = "In recent years the task of downbeat tracking has received increasing attention and the state of the art has been improved with the introduction of deep learning methods. Among proposed solutions, existing systems exploit short-term musical rules as part of their language modelling. In this work we show in an oracle scenario how including longer-term musical rules, in particular music structure, can enhance downbeat estimation. We introduce a skip-chain conditional random field language model for downbeat tracking designed to include section information in an unified and flexible framework. We combine this model with a state-of-the-art convolutional-recurrent network and we contrast the system's performance to the commonly used Bar Pointer model. Our experiments on the popular Beatles dataset show that incorporating structure information in the language model leads to more consistent and more robust downbeat estimations.",
keywords = "Convolutional-Recurrent Neural Networks, Deep Learning, Downbeat Tracking, Music Structure, Skip-Chain Conditional Random Fields",
author = "Magdalena Fuentes and Brian McFee and Crayencour, \{Helene C.\} and Slim Essid and Bello, \{Juan Pablo\}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019 IEEE.; 44th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2019 ; Conference date: 12-05-2019 Through 17-05-2019",
year = "2019",
month = may,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1109/ICASSP.2019.8682870",
language = "English",
series = "ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "481--485",
booktitle = "2019 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2019 - Proceedings",
}