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2019. The impact of musical structure on enjoyment and absorptive listening states in trance music. Music and Consciousness 2 - Worlds, Practices, Modalities.
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2016. The Effect of Repetitive Structure on Enjoyment in Uplifting Trance Music. 14th International Conference for Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC). :280-282.
preprint_trance.pdf (139.27 KB)
preprint_trance.pdf (139.27 KB).
2019. A novel music-based game with motion capture to support cognitive and motor function in the elderly. IEEE Conference on Games. preprint.pdf (2.6 MB)
preprint.pdf (2.6 MB).
2015. The effect of repetitive structure on enjoyment and altered states in uplifting trance music. 2nd International Conference on Music and Consciousness (MUSCON 2), Brighton. AgresEtAl_muscon.pdf (12.47 KB)
AgresEtAl_muscon.pdf (12.47 KB).
2018. The Structure of Chord Progressions Influences Listeners’ Enjoyment and Absorptive States in EDM. 15th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition. Agres460_preprint_v2.pdf (387.15 KB)
Agres460_preprint_v2.pdf (387.15 KB).
2017. Music and Motion-Detection: A Game Prototype for Rehabilitation and Strengthening in the Elderly. IEEE International Conference on Orange Technologies (ICOT) . agres_herr_music_rehab_preprint.pdf (1.77 MB)
agres_herr_music_rehab_preprint.pdf (1.77 MB).
2021. Music, Computing, and Health: A roadmap for the current and future roles of music technology for healthcare and well-being. Music & Science. Preprint for OSF_Agres, Schaefer, Volk, et al. (2021)_Music & Science_watermark.pdf (4.07 MB)
Preprint for OSF_Agres, Schaefer, Volk, et al. (2021)_Music & Science_watermark.pdf (4.07 MB).
2017. Harmonic Structure Predicts the Enjoyment of Uplifting Trance Music. Frontiers in Psychology, Cognitive Science. 7(1999) agres16ut.pdf (1.15 MB)
agres16ut.pdf (1.15 MB).
2018. Real-Time Binaural Auralization. ISTD. PhD NatalieAngus_PhD_Thesis_01Jul18.pdf (6.19 MB)
NatalieAngus_PhD_Thesis_01Jul18.pdf (6.19 MB).
2018. Minimally Simple Binaural Room Modelling Using a Single Feedback Delay Network. Journal of the Audio Engineering Society. 66(10):791-807. angus_jaes_preprint.pdf (6.39 MB)
angus_jaes_preprint.pdf (6.39 MB).
2018. Perceptual evaluation of measures of spectral variance. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 143(6):3300–3311. jasa_an_dh_preprint.pdf (2.46 MB)
jasa_an_dh_preprint.pdf (2.46 MB).
2015. Generating Fingerings for Polyphonic Piano Music with a Tabu Search Algorithm. Mathematics and Computation in Music. 9110:149-160. paper_mcm_preprint.pdf (405.73 KB)
paper_mcm_preprint.pdf (405.73 KB).
2017. A variable neighborhood search algorithm to generate piano fingerings for polyphonic sheet music. International Transactions in Operational Research, Special Issue on Variable Neighbourhood Search. 24(3):509–535. ITOR_VNS_APF_preprint.pdf (840.28 KB)
ITOR_VNS_APF_preprint.pdf (840.28 KB).
2025. Text2midi: Generating Symbolic Music from Captions. Proceedings of AAAI, Philadelphia. 2412.16526v2.pdf (569.51 KB)
2412.16526v2.pdf (569.51 KB).
2025. ImprovNet: Generating Controllable Musical Improvisations with Iterative Corruption Refinement. Proceedings of IJCNN, Rome, Italy.
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2020. Acoustic prediction of flowrate: varying liquid jet stream onto a free surface. IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications (SPCOM). preprint flow.pdf (1.01 MB)
preprint flow.pdf (1.01 MB).
2019. Towards robust audio spoofing detection: a detailed comparison of traditional and learned features. IEEE Access. 7:84229-84241. ieee_access_herremans.pdf (14.31 MB)
ieee_access_herremans.pdf (14.31 MB).
2020. Asthmatic versus healthy child classification based on cough and vocalised /a:/ sounds. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (JASA). 148, EL253
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2022. A Gaussian mixture classifier model to differentiate respiratory symptoms using phonated /ɑː/ sounds. The 18th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (SST). ahsounds.pdf (1018.01 KB)
ahsounds.pdf (1018.01 KB).
2021. Revisiting the Onsets and Frames Model with Additive Attention. Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN). 2104.06607.pdf (1.52 MB)
2104.06607.pdf (1.52 MB).
2019. Latent space representation for multi-target speaker detection and identification with a sparse dataset using Triplet neural networks. IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU 2019). 1910.01463.pdf (934.76 KB)
1910.01463.pdf (934.76 KB).
2020. The impact of Audio input representations on neural network based music transcription. Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN). 2001.09989.pdf (1.87 MB)
2001.09989.pdf (1.87 MB).
2021. The Effect of Spectrogram Reconstructions on Automatic Music Transcription:An Alternative Approach to Improve Transcription Accuracy. Proceedings of the International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR2020). 2010.09969.pdf (3.46 MB)
2010.09969.pdf (3.46 MB).
2021. ReconVAT: A Semi-Supervised Automatic Music Transcription Framework for Low-Resource Real-World Data. ACM Multimedia.
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2022. Jointist: Joint Learning for Multi-instrument Transcription and Its Applications. 2206.10805.pdf (427.51 KB)
2206.10805.pdf (427.51 KB).
2020. Regression-based music emotion prediction using triplet neural networks. Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN). 2001.09988.pdf (777.31 KB)
2001.09988.pdf (777.31 KB).
2018. Blacklisted speaker identification using triplet neural networks. MCE2018 competition. SUTD_description.pdf (133.08 KB)
SUTD_description.pdf (133.08 KB).
2020. nnAudio: An on-the-fly GPU Audio to Spectrogram Conversion Toolbox Using 1D Convolution Neural Networks. IEEE Access. nnAudio.pdf (10.2 MB)
nnAudio.pdf (10.2 MB).
2019. nnAudio: A PyTorch Audio Processing Tool Using 1D Convolution neural networks. ISMIR - Late Breaking Demo. nnAudio.pdf (399.08 KB)
nnAudio.pdf (399.08 KB).
2023. DiffRoll: Diffusion-based Generative Music Transcription with Unsupervised Pretraining Capability. ICASSP. diffroll.pdf (2.2 MB)
diffroll.pdf (2.2 MB).
2025. SonicVerse: Multi-Task Learning for Music Feature-Informed Captioning. Proceedings of the 6th Conference on AI Music Creativity (AIMC 2025), Brussels, Belgium, September 10th - 12th, 2025.
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2024. MIRFLEX: Music Information Retrieval Feature Library for Extraction. ISMIR, Late Breaking Demos. 2411.00469v1.pdf (89.86 KB)
2411.00469v1.pdf (89.86 KB).
2024. Gamification and skills tree. Trends and Foresight Report on Cyber-Physical Learning.
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2022. Predicting emotion from music videos: exploring the relative contribution of visual and auditory information to affective responses. Arxiv preprint.
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2018. Modeling temporal tonal relations in polyphonic music through deep networks with a novel image-based representation. The Thirty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. preprint_lstm.pdf (741.28 KB)
preprint_lstm.pdf (741.28 KB).
2018. From Context to Concept: Exploring Semantic Relationships in Music with Word2Vec. Neural Computing and Applications. paper.pdf (1.64 MB)
paper.pdf (1.64 MB).
2022. Computationally Efficient Physics Approximating Neural Networks for Highly Nonlinear Maps. 2022 International Conference on Research in Adaptive and Convergent Systems.
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2017. Generating guitar solos by integer programming. Journal of the Operational Research Society. :971-985. preprint_guitar_solo_generation_dh.pdf (772.59 KB)
preprint_guitar_solo_generation_dh.pdf (772.59 KB).
2016. Uma abordagem baseada em programação linear inteira para a geração de solos de guitarra. XLVIII Simpósio Brasileiro de Pesquisa Operacional (SBPO). sbpo_dh.pdf (346.61 KB)
sbpo_dh.pdf (346.61 KB).
2020. PerceptionGAN: Real-world image construction from provided text through perceptual understanding. 4th Int. Conf. on Imaging, Vision and Pattern Recognition (IVPR), and 9th Int. Conf. on Informatics, Electronics & Vision (ICIEV). perceptionGAN-preprint.pdf (2.83 MB)
perceptionGAN-preprint.pdf (2.83 MB).
2022. MusIAC: An extensible generative framework for Music Infilling Application with multi-level Control. EvoMUSART. 2202.05528.pdf (893.23 KB)
2202.05528.pdf (893.23 KB).
2021. Hierarchical Recurrent Neural Networks for Conditional Melody Generation with Long-term Structure. Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN). 2102.09794.pdf (1015.73 KB)
2102.09794.pdf (1015.73 KB).
2020. A variational autoencoder for music generation controlled by tonal tension. Joint Conference on AI Music Creativity (CSMC + MuMe). 2010.06230.pdf (622.82 KB)
2010.06230.pdf (622.82 KB).
2019. Midi Miner – A Python library for tonal tension and track classification. ISMIR - Late Breaking Demo. midi_miner.pdf (83.7 KB)
midi_miner.pdf (83.7 KB).
2025. An exploration of controllability in symbolic music infilling. IEEE Access.
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2023. A Domain-Knowledge-Inspired Music Embedding Space and a Novel Attention Mechanism for Symbolic Music Modeling. Proceedings of the 37th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 2212.00973.pdf (1.74 MB)
2212.00973.pdf (1.74 MB).
2019. Development of Machine Learning for asthmatic and healthy voluntary cough - a proof of concept study. Applied Sciences. 9(14) applsci-09-02833.pdf (2.06 MB)
applsci-09-02833.pdf (2.06 MB).
2014. Markov Based Quality Metrics For Generating Structured Music With Optimization Techniques. Digital Music Research Network (DMNR+9). dmrn9_dh.pdf (133.29 KB)
dmrn9_dh.pdf (133.29 KB).
2011. A Variable Neighborhood Search Algorithm for Composing First Species Counterpoint Musical Fragments. 2011017 wp_cp1.pdf (775.91 KB)
wp_cp1.pdf (775.91 KB).
2005. Tabu Search voor de optimalisatie van muzikale fragmenten. Faculty of Applied Economics. MSc Business Engineer Management Information Systems Thesis.pdf (1.25 MB)
Thesis.pdf (1.25 MB).
2014. Compose=Compute - Computer Generation And Classification Of Music Through Operations Research Methods. PhD Thesis, University of Antwerp. :250.
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2013. First species counterpoint generation with VNS and vertical viewpoints. Digital Music Research Network (DMNR+8). dnmr8_dh_dc.pdf (147.73 KB)
dnmr8_dh_dc.pdf (147.73 KB).
2015. Generating structured music for bagana using quality metrics based on Markov models. Expert Systems With Applications. 42 (21)(21):424–7435. paper-bagana.pdf (1.73 MB)
paper-bagana.pdf (1.73 MB).
2017. MorpheuS: generating structured music with constrained patterns and tension. IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing. PP (In Press)(99) herremans2017morpheusFullIEEE.pdf (5.71 MB)
herremans2017morpheusFullIEEE.pdf (5.71 MB).
2014. Looking into the minds of Bach, Haydn and Beethoven: Classification and generation of composer-specific music. RPS-2014-001.pdf (575.42 KB)
RPS-2014-001.pdf (575.42 KB).
2012. Composing first species counterpoint musical scores with a variable neighbourhood search algorithm. Journal of Mathematics and the Arts. 6:169-189.
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2016. Music generation with structural constraints: an operations research approach. 30th Annual Conference of the Belgian Operational Research (OR) Society (ORBEL30). :37-39. orbel30_dh.pdf (117.78 KB)
orbel30_dh.pdf (117.78 KB).
2015. Compose ≡ compute. 4OR. 13:335–336.
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2013. Dance Hit Song Science. International Workshop on Music and Machine Learning. abstract_preprint_MML2013_DH.pdf (194.82 KB)
abstract_preprint_MML2013_DH.pdf (194.82 KB).
2025. Forecasting Bitcoin Volatility Spikes from Whale Transactions and Cryptoquant Data Using Synthesizer Transformer Models. IEEE Access. 13:117788-117807. SSRN-id4247684.pdf (5.05 MB)
SSRN-id4247684.pdf (5.05 MB).
2017. Visualizing the evolution of alternative hit charts. The 18th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR) - Late Breaking Demo. dh_visualiation_preprint.pdf (5.34 MB)
dh_visualiation_preprint.pdf (5.34 MB).
2025. Royalties in the age of AI: paying artists for AI-generated songs. WIPO Magazine.
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2026. Aligning Generative Music AI with Human Preferences: Methods and Challenges. Proceedings of AAAI, senior member track.
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2015. Generating music with an optimization algorithm using a Markov based objective function. ORBEL29, Belgian Conference on Operations Research. orbel29abs.pdf (138.67 KB)
orbel29abs.pdf (138.67 KB).
2016. MorpheuS: Automatic music generation with recurrent pattern constraints and tension profiles. IEEE TENCON. paper_morpheus_dh_ieee.pdf (550.61 KB)
paper_morpheus_dh_ieee.pdf (550.61 KB).
2017. A Functional Taxonomy of Music Generation Systems. ACM Computing Surveys. 50(5):30. music_generation_survey_dh_preprint.pdf (349.15 KB)
music_generation_survey_dh_preprint.pdf (349.15 KB).
2014. Generating structured music using quality metrics based on Markov models. wp_bagana.pdf (1.7 MB)
wp_bagana.pdf (1.7 MB).
2012. Composing Fifth Species Counterpoint Music With Variable Neighborhood Search. wp_cp5.pdf (508 KB)
wp_cp5.pdf (508 KB).
2017. A multi-modal platform for semantic music analysis: visualizing audio- and score-based tension. 11th International Conference on Semantic Computing IEEE ICSC 2017. paper_preprint.pdf (1.63 MB)
paper_preprint.pdf (1.63 MB).
2013. Composing Fifth Species Counterpoint Music With A Variable Neighborhood Search Algorithm. Expert Systems with Applications. 40 paper_preprint_cp5.pdf (405.75 KB)
paper_preprint_cp5.pdf (405.75 KB).
2015. Classification and generation of composer-specific music using global feature models and variable neighborhood search. Computer Music Journal. 39(3):91. papercmj-dh_preprint.pdf (637.63 KB)
papercmj-dh_preprint.pdf (637.63 KB).
2016. MorpheuS: constraining structure in automatic music generation. Dagstuhl seminar on Computational Music Structure Analysis. abstract_dagstuhl_dh.pdf (88.49 KB)
abstract_dagstuhl_dh.pdf (88.49 KB).
2017. IMMA-Emo: A Multimodal Interface for Visualising Score- and Audio-synchronised Emotion Annotations. Audio Mostly. IMMA-emo_preprint.pdf (1.4 MB)
IMMA-emo_preprint.pdf (1.4 MB).
2014. First species counterpoint generation with VNS and vertical viewpoints. Annual Conference of the Belgian Operation Research Society (ORBEL28). orbel28_dh.pdf (216.63 KB)
orbel28_dh.pdf (216.63 KB).
2012. Composing counterpoint musical scores with variable neighborhood search. Annual Conference of the Belgian Operation Research Society (ORBEL26). orbel26abs_vnsforcp.pdf (116.85 KB)
orbel26abs_vnsforcp.pdf (116.85 KB).
2015. Composer Classification Models for Music-Theory Building. Computational Music Analysis. Chapter_HerremansEtAl_preprint.pdf (475.26 KB)
Chapter_HerremansEtAl_preprint.pdf (475.26 KB).
2014. Sampling the extrema from statistical models of music with variable neighbourhood search. ICMC/SMC. icmc_dh.pdf (1.07 MB)
icmc_dh.pdf (1.07 MB).
2017. Hit Song Prediction Based on Early Adopter Data and Audio Features. The 18th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR) - Late Breaking Demo. paper_preprint_hit.pdf (221.73 KB)
paper_preprint_hit.pdf (221.73 KB).
2021. aiSTROM - A roadmap for developing a successful AI strategy. IEEE Access.
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2016. Tension ribbons: Quantifying and visualising tonal tension. Second International Conference on Technologies for Music Notation and Representation (TENOR). 2:8-18. paper_tenor_dh_preprint_small.pdf (1.67 MB)
paper_tenor_dh_preprint_small.pdf (1.67 MB).
2019. Towards emotion based music generation: A tonal tension model based on the spiral array. Proceedings of Cognitive Science (CogSci). CogSci_tension (1).pdf (610.91 KB)
CogSci_tension (1).pdf (610.91 KB).
2017. Modeling Musical Context with Word2vec. First International Workshop On Deep Learning and Music. 1:11-18. herremans2017work2vec.pdf (745.8 KB)
herremans2017work2vec.pdf (745.8 KB).
2019. The emergence of deep learning: new opportunities for music and audio technologies. Neural Computing and Applications. main_preprint.pdf (102.16 KB)
main_preprint.pdf (102.16 KB).
2014. Dance hit song prediction. Journal of New music Research. 43:302. wp_hit.pdf (689.07 KB)
wp_hit.pdf (689.07 KB).
2013. FuX, an Android app that generates counterpoint. IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Creativity and Affective Computing (CICAC). :48-55. wp_fux.pdf (486.27 KB)
wp_fux.pdf (486.27 KB).
2018. O.R. and music generation. OR/MS Today. 45(1) O.R. and music generation - INFORMS.pdf (825.66 KB)
O.R. and music generation - INFORMS.pdf (825.66 KB).
2022. Single Image Video Prediction with Auto-Regressive GANs. Sensors. 22:3533.
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2022. A Machine Learning Approach for MIDI to Guitar Tablature Conversion. Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC). 25.pdf (528.42 KB)
25.pdf (528.42 KB).
2025. Are we there yet? A brief survey of Music Emotion Prediction Datasets, Models and Outstanding Challenges IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing. 2406.08809v1.pdf (156.19 KB)
2406.08809v1.pdf (156.19 KB).
2024. Video2Music: Suitable Music Generation from Videos using an Affective Multimodal Transformer model. Expert Systems with Applications. 2311.00968.pdf (5.51 MB)
2311.00968.pdf (5.51 MB).
2023. MERP: A Music Dataset with Emotion Ratings and Raters’ Profile Information. Sensors - Intelligent Sensors. 23(1) sensors-23-00382 (2).pdf (1.21 MB)
sensors-23-00382 (2).pdf (1.21 MB).
2021. Musical stylometry: Characterisation of music. Multivariate Humanities.
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2022. Understanding Audio Features via Trainable Basis Functions. Arxiv preprint. 2204.11437.pdf (7.36 MB)
2204.11437.pdf (7.36 MB).
2024. SNIPER Training: Variable Sparsity Rate Training For Text-To-Speech. Proc. of IEEE Tencon, Singapore. 2211.07283.pdf (435.22 KB)
2211.07283.pdf (435.22 KB).
2025. PRESENT: Zero-Shot Text-to-Prosody Control. IEEE Signal Processing Letters. 2408.06827v1.pdf (367.55 KB)
2408.06827v1.pdf (367.55 KB).
2024. Coarse-to-Fine Text-to-Music Latent Diffusion. Audio Imagination: NeurIPS 2024 Workshop.
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2025. Coarse-to-Fine Text-to-Music Latent Diffusion. Proceedings of ICASSP.
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2025. Natural Language Processing Methods for Symbolic Music Generation and Information Retrieval: a Survey. ACM Computing Surveys. 2402.17467.pdf (1.01 MB)
2402.17467.pdf (1.01 MB)