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Overview

Simon Dixon is affiliated with Queen Mary University of London in the United Kingdom. Their research focuses primarily within the field of Computer Science, with significant contributions to subfields including Signal Processing, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Music, Artificial Intelligence, and Cognitive Neuroscience.

Their work covers a range of topics related to music and audio processing, music technology and sound studies, diverse musicological studies, speech recognition and synthesis, natural language processing techniques, speech and audio processing, and neuroscience and music perception.

Simon Dixon has published extensively in several venues, notably:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval
  • IEEE Signal Processing Letters
  • Applied Sciences

Their recent papers include:

  • PiJAMA: Piano Jazz with Automatic MIDI Annotations, 2023, Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval
  • A Data-Driven Analysis of Robust Automatic Piano Transcription, 2024, IEEE Signal Processing Letters
  • DExter: Learning and Controlling Performance Expression with Diffusion Models, 2024, Applied Sciences
  • The Jazz Ontology: A semantic model and large-scale RDF repositories for jazz, 2022, Journal of Web Semantics
  • A Convolutional-Attentional Neural Framework for Structure-Aware Performance-Score Synchronization, 2021, IEEE Signal Processing Letters

Simon Dixon frequently collaborates with other researchers in the field. Their notable coauthors include:

  • Emmanouil Benetos
  • Sungkyun Chang
  • Drew Edwards
  • Xavier Riley
  • Yixiao Zhang

Their publications indicate a sustained focus on music and audio-oriented computation methods, especially those involving automatic transcription, performance expression modeling, structure-aware synchronization, and semantic modeling in musical contexts.

Best Publications

  • Automatic Extraction of Tempo and Beat From Expressive Performances

    Simon Dixon

  • Wave-U-Net: A Multi-Scale Neural Network for End-to-End Audio Source Separation

    Daniel Stoller;Sebastian Ewert;Simon Dixon

  • PYIN: A fundamental frequency estimator using probabilistic threshold distributions

    Matthias Mauch;Simon Dixon

  • Automatic music transcription: challenges and future directions

    Emmanouil Benetos;Simon Dixon;Dimitrios Giannoulis;Holger Kirchhoff

  • An end-to-end neural network for polyphonic piano music transcription

    Siddharth Sigtia;Emmanouil Benetos;Simon Dixon

  • An experimental comparison of audio tempo induction algorithms

    F. Gouyon;A. Klapuri;S. Dixon;M. Alonso

  • Automatic Music Transcription: An Overview

    Emmanouil Benetos;Simon Dixon;Zhiyao Duan;Sebastian Ewert

  • A Review of Automatic Rhythm Description Systems

    Fabien Gouyon;Simon Dixon

  • Evaluation of the Audio Beat Tracking System BeatRoot

    Simon Dixon

  • APPROXIMATE NOTE TRANSCRIPTION FOR THE IMPROVED IDENTIFICATION OF DIFFICULT CHORDS

    Matthias Mauch;Simon Dixon

  • A Survey of Music Recommendation Systems and Future Perspectives

    Yading Song;Simon Dixon;Marcus Pearce

  • MATCH: A Music Alignment Tool Chest

    Simon Dixon;Gerhard Widmer

  • Exploring Music Collections by Browsing Different Views

    Elias Pampalk;Simon Dixon;Gerhard Widmer;Gerhard Widmer

  • Evaluating Rhythmic descriptors for Musical Genre Classification

    Simon Dixon;Elias Pampalk;Gerhard Widmer

  • Simultaneous Estimation of Chords and Musical Context From Audio

    M Mauch;S Dixon

  • Towards Characterisation of Music via Rhythmic Patterns

    Simon Dixon;Fabien Gouyon;Gerhard Widmer

  • In search of the Horowitz factor

    Gerhard Widmer;Simon Dixon;Werner Goebl;Elias Pampalk

  • Computer-aided Melody Note Transcription Using the Tony Software: Accuracy and Efficiency

    M Mauch;C Cannam;R Bittner;G Fazekas

  • Classification of Dance Music by Periodicity Patterns

    Simon Dixon;Elias Pampalk;Gerhard Widmer

  • LIVE TRACKING OF MUSICAL PERFORMANCES USING ON-LINE TIME WARPING

    Simon Dixon

  • Improved music feature learning with deep neural networks

    Siddharth Sigtia;Simon Dixon

Frequent Co-Authors

Gerhard Widmer
Gerhard Widmer Johannes Kepler University of Linz
Mark Sandler
Mark Sandler Google (United States)
Anssi Klapuri
Anssi Klapuri Yousician
Marcus T. Pearce
Marcus T. Pearce Queen Mary University of London
Mark D. Plumbley
Mark D. Plumbley King's College London
Andrea R. Halpern
Andrea R. Halpern Bucknell University
Sean Bechhofer
Sean Bechhofer University of Manchester
Juan Pablo Bello
Juan Pablo Bello New York University
Jason Dykes
Jason Dykes City, University of London
Meinard Müller
Meinard Müller University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

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