Ph.D. Thesis

Data-Driven Fundamental Frequency Estimation
Rachel M. Bittner
Ph.D. Thesis, Music and Audio Research Lab, New York University
2018
​Outstanding Dissertation Award

Publications
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Neural Music Synthesis for Flexible Timbre Control
Jong Wook Kim, Rachel M. Bittner, Aparna Kumar, and Juan Pablo Bello
44th International conference on acoustics, speech and signal processing (ICASSP)
[website]
2019
Guitarset: A Dataset for Guitar Transcription
Qingyang Xi, Rachel M. Bittner, Johan Pauwels, Xuzhou Ye, and Juan Pablo Bello
19th International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) conference
[code][bibtex][pdf]
2018
Vocals in Music Matter: The Relevance of Vocals in the Minds of Listeners
Andrew Demetriou, Andreas Jansson, Aparna Kumar, and Rachel M. Bittner
19th International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) conference
[bibtex][pdf]
2018
Deep Salience Representations for F0 Estimation in Polyphonic Music
Rachel M. Bittner, Brian McFee, Justin Salamon, Peter Li and Juan Pablo Bello
​18th International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) conference
​[code] [bibtex] [pdf]
2017
​​​Best Student Paper
An Analysis/Synthesis Framework for Automatic F0 Annotation of Multitrack Datasets
Justin Salamon, Rachel M. Bittner, Jordi Bonada, Juan José Bosch, Emilia Gómez and Juan Pablo Bello
​18th International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) conference
​[bibtex] [pdf]
2017
Automatic Playlist Sequencing and Transitions
Rachel M. Bittner, Minwei Gu, Gandalf Hernandez, Eric J. Humphrey, Tristan Jehan, P. Hunter McCurry and Nicola Montecchio
​18th International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) conference
​[bibtex] [pdf]
2017
Singing Voice Separation with Deep U-Net Convolutional Networks
​Andreas Jansson, Eric J. Humphrey, Nicola Montecchio, Rachel M. Bittner, Aparna Kumar and Tillman Weyde
​​18th International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) conference
[bibtex] [pdf]
2017
Mining Labeled Data from Web­-Scale Collections for Vocal Activity Detection in Music
Eric J. Humphrey, Nicola Montecchio, Rachel M. Bittner, Andreas Jansson and Tristan Jehan
​18th International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) conference
​[bibtex] [pdf]
2017
Pitch Contours as a Mid-Level Representation for Music Informatics
Rachel M. Bittner, Justin Salamon, Juan José Bosch and Juan Pablo Bello
Proceedings of the 2017 Audio Engineering Society (AES) International Conference on Semantic Audio
[code] [slides] [bibtex] [pdf]
2017
​​Best Student Paper
Pitch Contour Tracking in Music Using Harmonic Locked Loops
Rachel M. Bittner, Avery Wang and Juan Pablo Bello
42nd International conference on acoustics, speech and signal processing (ICASSP)
[code] [slides] [bibtex] [pdf]
2017
Towards the Characterization of Singing Styles in World Music
Maria Panteli, Rachel M. Bittner, Juan Pablo Bello and Simon Dixon
42nd International conference on acoustics, speech and signal processing (ICASSP)
[code] [poster] [bibtex] [pdf]
2017
A Comparison of Melody Extraction Methods Based on Source-Filter Modelling
Juan José Bosch, Rachel M. Bittner, Justin Salamon and Emilia Gómez
17th International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) conference
​[code] [poster] [bibtex] [pdf]
2016
Melody Extraction by Contour Classification
Rachel M. Bittner, Justin Salamon, Slim Essid and Juan Pablo Bello
16th International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) conference
​[code] [slides] [bibtex] [pdf]
2015
​Best Oral Presentation
Kernel Additive Modeling for Interference Reduction in Multi-Channel Music Recordings
Thomas Prätzlich, Rachel M. Bittner, Antoine Liutkus and Meinard Müller
40th International conference on acoustics, speech and signal processing (ICASSP)
[website] [code] [poster] [bibtex] [pdf]
2015
Improving and Adapting Finite State Transducer Methods for Musical Accompaniment
Jon P. Forsyth, Rachel M. Bittner, Michael Musick and Juan Pablo Bello
41st International Computer Music Conference (ICMC)
[slides] [bibtex] [pdf]
2015
Computer-aided melody note transcription using the Tony Software: Accuracy and efficiency
Matthias Mauch, Chris Cannam, Rachel M. Bittner, György Fazekas, Justin Salamon, Jiajie Dai, Juan Pablo Bello and Simon Dixon
1st International Conference on Technologies for Music Notation and Representation (TENOR)
[website] [code] [bibtex] [pdf]
2015
JAMS: A JSON Annotation Music Specification for Reproducible MIR Research
Eric J. Humphrey, Justin Salamon, Oriol Nieto, Jon P. Forsyth, Rachel M. Bittner and Juan Pablo Bello
15th International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) conference
[website] [code] [poster] [bibtex] [pdf]
2014
MedleyDB: A Multitrack Dataset for Annotation-Intensive MIR Research
Rachel M. Bittner, Justin Salamon, Mike Tierney, Matthias Mauch, Chris Cannam and Juan Pablo Bello
15th International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) conference
[website] [code] [poster] [bibtex] [pdf]
2014
Signal Processing Methods for Removing the Effects of Whole-Body Vibration Upon Speech
Rachel M. Bittner and Durand R. Begault
39th International conference on acoustics, speech and signal processing (ICASSP)
[video] [poster] [bibtex] [pdf]
2014
Pilot Workload and Speech Analysis: A Preliminary Investigation
Rachel M. Bittner, Durand R. Begault and Bonny R. Christopher
135th Audio Engineering Society Convention (AES)
[slides] [bibtex] [pdf]
2013
Modeling Auditory-Haptic Cues from an Analog Multi-line Telephone
Durand R. Begault, Mark R. Anderson and Rachel M. Bittner
133rd Audio Engineering Society Convention (AES)
​[bibtex] [pdf]
2012

Master's Thesis

Signal Processing Methods for Removing the Effects of Whole-Body Vibration upon Speech
Rachel M. Bittner
Master's Thesis, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
2013

Technical Reports & Workshop Papers & Whitepapers

Learning a Large-Scale Vocal Similarity Embedding for Music
Aparna Kumar, Rachel M. Bittner, Nicola Montecchio, Andreas Jansson, Maria Panteli, Eric J. Humphrey, and Tristan Jehan
Machine Learning for Music Discovery Workshop, International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Sydney, Australia
[slides] [pdf]
2017
Invited Talk
MedleyDB 2.0: New Data and a System for Sustainable Data Collection
Rachel M. Bittner, Julia Wilkins, Hanna Yip and Juan P. Bello
Late breaking/demo extended abstract, 17th International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) conference
​[website] [code] [poster] [bibtex] [pdf]
2016
pysox: Leveraging the Audio Signal Processing Power of SoX in Python
Rachel M. Bittner, Eric J. Humphrey and Juan P. Bello
Late breaking/demo extended abstract, 17th International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) conference
[website] [code] [poster] [bibtex] [pdf]
2016