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Main Authors: Hu, Jiayun, He, Yueyi, Liang, Tianyi, Wang, Changbo, Li, Chenhui
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04758
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author Hu, Jiayun
He, Yueyi
Liang, Tianyi
Wang, Changbo
Li, Chenhui
author_facet Hu, Jiayun
He, Yueyi
Liang, Tianyi
Wang, Changbo
Li, Chenhui
contents Emotion alignment between music and palettes is crucial for effective multimedia content, yet misalignment creates confusion that weakens the intended message. However, existing methods often generate only a single dominant color, missing emotion variation. Others rely on indirect mappings through text or images, resulting in the loss of crucial emotion details. To address these challenges, we present Music2Palette, a novel method for emotion-aligned color palette generation via cross-modal representation learning. We first construct MuCED, a dataset of 2,634 expert-validated music-palette pairs aligned through Russell-based emotion vectors. To directly translate music into palettes, we propose a cross-modal representation learning framework with a music encoder and color decoder. We further propose a multi-objective optimization approach that jointly enhances emotion alignment, color diversity, and palette coherence. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method outperforms current methods in interpreting music emotion and generating attractive and diverse color palettes. Our approach enables applications like music-driven image recoloring, video generating, and data visualization, bridging the gap between auditory and visual emotion experiences.
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spellingShingle Music2Palette: Emotion-aligned Color Palette Generation via Cross-Modal Representation Learning
Hu, Jiayun
He, Yueyi
Liang, Tianyi
Wang, Changbo
Li, Chenhui
Multimedia
Emotion alignment between music and palettes is crucial for effective multimedia content, yet misalignment creates confusion that weakens the intended message. However, existing methods often generate only a single dominant color, missing emotion variation. Others rely on indirect mappings through text or images, resulting in the loss of crucial emotion details. To address these challenges, we present Music2Palette, a novel method for emotion-aligned color palette generation via cross-modal representation learning. We first construct MuCED, a dataset of 2,634 expert-validated music-palette pairs aligned through Russell-based emotion vectors. To directly translate music into palettes, we propose a cross-modal representation learning framework with a music encoder and color decoder. We further propose a multi-objective optimization approach that jointly enhances emotion alignment, color diversity, and palette coherence. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method outperforms current methods in interpreting music emotion and generating attractive and diverse color palettes. Our approach enables applications like music-driven image recoloring, video generating, and data visualization, bridging the gap between auditory and visual emotion experiences.
title Music2Palette: Emotion-aligned Color Palette Generation via Cross-Modal Representation Learning
topic Multimedia
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04758