Sequence-to-Sequence Piano Transcription with Transformers

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2107.09142v1
• Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2021 20:33:09 GMT
• Title: Sequence-to-Sequence Piano Transcription with Transformers
• Authors: Curtis Hawthorne, Ian Simon, Rigel Swavely, Ethan Manilow, Jesse Engel
• Abstract summary: We show that equivalent performance can be achieved using a generic encoder-decoder Transformer with standard decoding methods. We demonstrate that the model can learn to translate spectrogram inputs directly to MIDI-like output events for several transcription tasks.
• Score: 6.177271244427368
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Automatic Music Transcription has seen significant progress in recent years by training custom deep neural networks on large datasets. However, these models have required extensive domain-specific design of network architectures, input/output representations, and complex decoding schemes. In this work, we show that equivalent performance can be achieved using a generic encoder-decoder Transformer with standard decoding methods. We demonstrate that the model can learn to translate spectrogram inputs directly to MIDI-like output events for several transcription tasks. This sequence-to-sequence approach simplifies transcription by jointly modeling audio features and language-like output dependencies, thus removing the need for task-specific architectures. These results point toward possibilities for creating new Music Information Retrieval models by focusing on dataset creation and labeling rather than custom model design.

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