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Spain
2025

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Computer Science

D-Index
55
Citations
12163
World Ranking
4314
National Ranking
57

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Spain Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Spain Leader Award

Overview

Xavier Serra is affiliated with Pompeu Fabra University in Spain. Their scholarly work primarily focuses on the field of Computer Science, with significant contributions in subfields such as Signal Processing, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Artificial Intelligence, Music, and Cognitive Neuroscience.

The research topics covered by Serra include Music and Audio Processing, Speech and Audio Processing, Music Technology and Sound Studies, Speech Recognition and Synthesis, Diverse Musicological Studies, Neuroscience and Music Perception, and Time Series Analysis and Forecasting.

Serra has contributed to several research papers, notably:

  • "An Interpretable Deep Learning Model for Automatic Sound Classification" (2021, Electronics)
  • "Evaluation of CNN-based Automatic Music Tagging Models" (2020, arXiv (Cornell University))
  • "FSD50K: An Open Dataset of Human-Labeled Sound Events" (2021, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing)
  • "Saraga: Open Datasets for Research on Indian Art Music" (2021, Empirical Musicology Review)
  • "Multilabel Prototype Generation for data reduction in K-Nearest Neighbour classification" (2022, Pattern Recognition)

Frequent co-authors in Serra's publications include:

  • Marius Miron
  • Dmitry Bogdanov
  • Pedro Ramoneda
  • Frederic Font
  • Xavier Favory

Serra's research appears regularly in publication venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Repositori digital de la UPF (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
  • Journal of Crohn's and Colitis
  • Gastroenterología y Hepatología

Regarding book publications, Serra has contributed to works published by the European Organization for Nuclear Research, including the "Proceedings of the 23nd International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference" in 2022.

Best Publications

  • Spectral modeling synthesis: A sound analysis/synthesis based on a deterministic plus stochastic decomposition

    Xavier Serra;Julius O. Smith

  • Musical Sound Modeling with Sinusoids plus Noise

    Xavier Serra

  • A system for sound analysis/transformation/synthesis based on a deterministic plus stochastic decomposition

    Xavier Serra

  • Essentia: An Audio Analysis Library for Music Information Retrieval.

    Dmitry Bogdanov;Nicolas Wack;Emilia Gómez;Sankalp Gulati

  • A Wavenet for Speech Denoising

    Dario Rethage;Jordi Pons;Xavier Serra

  • PARSHL: An analysis/synthesis program for non-harmonic sounds based on a sinusoidal representation

    Julius O. Smith;Xavier Serra

  • Chroma Binary Similarity and Local Alignment Applied to Cover Song Identification

    J. Serra;E. Gomez;P. Herrera;X. Serra

  • Freesound technical demo

    Frederic Font;Gerard Roma;Xavier Serra

  • Method of and apparatus for analyzing and synthesizing a sound by extracting and controlling a sound parameter

    Xavier Serra;Chris Williams;Robert Gross;Erling Wold

  • Cross recurrence quantification for cover song identification

    Joan Serrà;Xavier Serra;Ralph G Andrzejak

  • Freesound Datasets: A Platform for the Creation of Open Audio Datasets.

    Eduardo Fonseca;Jordi Pons;Xavier Favory;Frederic Font

  • SaxEx : a case-based reasoning system for generating expressive musical performances

    Josep Lluís Arcos;Ramon López de Mántaras;Xavier Serra

  • Towards instrument segmentation for music content description a critical review of instrument classification techniques

    Perfecto Herrera-Boyer;Xavier Amatriain;Eloi Batlle;Xavier Serra

  • Experimenting with musically motivated convolutional neural networks

    Jordi Pons;Thomas Lidy;Xavier Serra

  • End-to-end Learning for Music Audio Tagging at Scale

    Jordi Pons;Oriol Nieto;Matthew Prockup;Erik M. Schmidt

  • Sound and Music Recommendation with Knowledge Graphs

    Sergio Oramas;Vito Claudio Ostuni;Tommaso Di Noia;Xavier Serra

  • Timbre analysis of music audio signals with convolutional neural networks

    Jordi Pons;Olga Slizovskaia;Rong Gong;Emilia Gomez

  • ESSENTIA: an open-source library for sound and music analysis

    Dmitry Bogdanov;Nicolas Wack;Emilia Gómez;Sankalp Gulati

  • General-purpose Tagging of Freesound Audio with AudioSet Labels: Task Description, Dataset, and Baseline

    Eduardo Fonseca;Manoj Plakal;Frederic Font;Daniel P. W. Ellis

  • Multimodal Deep Learning for Music Genre Classification

    Sergio Oramas;Francesco Barbieri;Oriol Nieto;Xavier Serra

  • Synthesis of the Singing Voice by Performance Sampling and Spectral Models

    J. Bonada;X. Serra

  • FSD50K: an Open Dataset of Human-Labeled Sound Events

    Eduardo Fonseca;Xavier Favory;Jordi Pons;Frederic Font

Frequent Co-Authors

Perfecto Herrera
Perfecto Herrera Pompeu Fabra University
Emilia Gómez
Emilia Gómez Pompeu Fabra University
Daniel P. W. Ellis
Daniel P. W. Ellis Google (United States)
Julius O. Smith
Julius O. Smith Stanford University
Justin Salamon
Justin Salamon Adobe Systems (United States)
Gerhard Widmer
Gerhard Widmer Johannes Kepler University of Linz
Tuomas Virtanen
Tuomas Virtanen Tampere University
Mark Sandler
Mark Sandler Google (United States)
Horacio Saggion
Horacio Saggion Pompeu Fabra University
Xavier Rodet
Xavier Rodet Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique Musique

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