Multicultural representation learning for music signal analysis
Abstract
Music Information Retrieval (MIR) research has traditionally focused on Western musical traditions, creating a significant gap in computational approaches to diverse world music cultures. This dissertation addresses this gap by developing and evaluating methods for multicultural music representation learning, aiming to create more culture-aware computational approaches that can effectively capture and analyze the distinctive characteristics of various musical traditions. The research develops the Lyra dataset, a comprehensive collection of Greek traditional and folk music comprising 1570 pieces with rich metadata, and explores cross-cultural knowledge transfer through systematic evaluation of deep audio embedding models across Western, Mediterranean, and Indian musical traditions. To address limited annotated data challenges, the dissertation introduces Label-Combination Prototypical Networks (LC-Protonets), a novel multi-label few-shot learning approach that creates prototypes for lab ...
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