Alexander Lerch
Associate Professor
Develops machine learning for audio content analysis and music information retrieval.
Alexander Lerch's lab at Georgia Tech works on music, audio & sound, recommendation, search & web and knowledge, QA & retrieval. 37 papers since 2023, mostly TAFFC. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 10/ year
- at T1 venues
- 0%
- PhD students
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- MS students
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- alumni listed
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Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 8 papers2026 · T1 0 · collecting
- 5 papers2025 · T1 0
- 10 papers2024 · T1 0
- 14 papers2023 · T1 0
T1 venuesOtherVenues: TAFFC
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Music, audio & sound24 papers
- music13 papers
- Recommendation, search & web3 papers
- Knowledge, QA & retrieval1 paper
- music information1 paper
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20268 papers
- Transactions of the International Society for Music Information RetrievalAI and Music at a Crossroads: The Role of the Music Information Retrieval (MIR) Community in Shaping Trustworthy, Open, and Culturally Inclusive Music‑AI
- Proceedings of the ACM AI Leadership Summit, Atlanta, .Beyond Static Benchmarks: A Post-Leaderboard Evaluation Paradigm for Generative Music and Creative AI
- Proceedings of the International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx), .FoleySet: A Multi-Level Human-Annotated Foley Sound Dataset
- Proceedings of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR), Abu Dhabi, .H2H Music Improv: A Communication Model and Audio-Visual Dataset for Music Improvisation
- Proceedings of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR), Abu Dhabi, .Multi-Task Multi-Frame Visual Piano Transcription
- Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Barcelona, Spain, .Separate This, and All of these Things Around It: Music Source Separation via Hyperellipsoidal Queries
- Proceedings of the International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx), .Sound Effects Dataset Unification With the Universal Category System
- Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Barcelona, Spain, .When Noise Lowers The Loss: Rethinking Likelihood-Based Evaluation in Music Large Language Models
20255 papers
- Workshop on Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE), Barcelona, Spain, .Audio-Based Pedestrian Detection in the Presence of Vehicular Noise
- Weinzierl, Stefan (Ed.): Handbuch der AudiotechnikDigitale Audio-Effekte
- Proceedings of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR), Daejeon, South Korea, .PianoVAM: A Multimodal Piano Performance Dataset
- ACM Computing Surveys, , ISSN: 0360-0300.Survey on the Evaluation of Generative Models in Music
- Late Breaking Demo (Extended Abstract), Proceedings of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR), Daejeon, South Korea, .Two Web Toolkits for Multimodal Piano Performance Dataset Acquisition and Fingering Annotation
202410 papers
- Proceedings of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR), San Francisco, .A Stem-Agnostic Single-Decoder System for Music Source Separation Beyond Four Stems
- TAFFCARAUS: A Large-Scale Dataset and Baseline Models of Affective Responses to Augmented Urban Soundscapes
- Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Seoul, .ASPED: An Audio Dataset for Detecting Pedestrians
- Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on the Internet of Sounds (IS2), Erlangen, .Enhancing Video Music Recommendation with Transformer-Driven Audio-Visual Embeddings
- JASA Express LettersLion City Soundscapes: Modified Partitioning around Medoids for a Perceptually Diverse Dataset of Singaporean Soundscapes
- Proceedings of the AES Convention, New York, .Music auto-tagging in the long tail: A few-shot approach
- Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Seoul, .Quantifying Spatial Audio Quality Impairment
- The Journal of the Acoustical Society of AmericaToward audio-based sensing for pedestrian detection
- Urban InformaticsUnderstanding Pedestrian Movement Using Urban Sensing Technologies: The Promise of Audio-based Sensors
- Applied Acoustics, .Validating Thai Translations of Perceptual Soundscape Attributes: A Non-Procrustean Approach with a Procrustes Projection
202314 papers
- IEEE Open Journal of Signal ProcessingA Generalized Bandsplit Neural Network for Cinematic Audio Source Separation
- Late Breaking Demo (Extended Abstract), Proceedings of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR), International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), Milan, .AQUATK: An Audio Quality Assessment Toolkit
- Proceedings of the International Congress and Exposition on Noise Control Engineering, .ARAUSv2: An Expanded Dataset and Multimodal Models of Affective Responses to Augmented Urban Soundscapes
- Proceedings of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR), Milan, Italy, .Audio Embeddings as Teachers for Music Classification
- Weinzierl, Stefan (Ed.): Handbuch der AudiotechnikAudioinhaltsanalyse
- Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, .Autonomous Soundscape Augmentation with Multimodal Fusion of Visual and Participant-linked Inputs
- Applied AcousticsCrossing the Linguistic Causeway: Ethnonational Differences on Soundscape Attributes in Bahasa Melayu
- Proceedings of the International Congress and Exposition on Noise Control Engineering, .Effect of Masker Selection Schemes on the Perceived Affective Quality of Soundscapes: A Pilot Study
- Weinzierl, Stefan (Ed.): Handbuch der AudiotechnikGrundlagen digitaler Audiosignale
- Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Rhodes Island, Greece, .Low-Resource Music Genre Classification with Cross-Modal Neural Model Reprogramming
- Companion Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent User InterfacesMILC 2023: 3rd Workshop on Intelligent Music Interfaces for Listening and Creation
- Proceedings of the International Conference on Multimedia Modeling (MMM), Bergen, Norway, .Music Instrument Classification Reprogrammed
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