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Auteurs principaux: Morais, Giovana, McFee, Brian, Fuentes, Magdalena
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Publié: 2025
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Accès en ligne:https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.12972
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author Morais, Giovana
McFee, Brian
Fuentes, Magdalena
author_facet Morais, Giovana
McFee, Brian
Fuentes, Magdalena
contents Beat and downbeat tracking models are predominantly developed using datasets with music in 4/4 meter, which decreases their generalization to repertories in other time signatures, such as Brazilian samba which is in 2/4. In this work, we propose a simple augmentation technique to increase the representation of time signatures beyond 4/4, namely 2/4 and 3/4. Our augmentation procedure works by removing beat intervals from 4/4 annotated tracks. We show that the augmented data helps to improve downbeat tracking for underrepresented meters while preserving the overall performance of beat tracking in two different models. We also show that this technique helps improve downbeat tracking in an unseen samba dataset.
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spellingShingle Skip That Beat: Augmenting Meter Tracking Models for Underrepresented Time Signatures
Morais, Giovana
McFee, Brian
Fuentes, Magdalena
Sound
Beat and downbeat tracking models are predominantly developed using datasets with music in 4/4 meter, which decreases their generalization to repertories in other time signatures, such as Brazilian samba which is in 2/4. In this work, we propose a simple augmentation technique to increase the representation of time signatures beyond 4/4, namely 2/4 and 3/4. Our augmentation procedure works by removing beat intervals from 4/4 annotated tracks. We show that the augmented data helps to improve downbeat tracking for underrepresented meters while preserving the overall performance of beat tracking in two different models. We also show that this technique helps improve downbeat tracking in an unseen samba dataset.
title Skip That Beat: Augmenting Meter Tracking Models for Underrepresented Time Signatures
topic Sound
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.12972