Dataset release: A-MAPS - Augmented MAPS Dataset with Rhythm and Key Annotations

[Adrien Ycart]

With apologies for cross-posting…

Dear all,

We are happy to announce the release of the A-MAPS dataset!

The MAPS dataset is one of the most used benchmark dataset for automatic music transcription (AMT). We propose here an updated version of the ground truth MIDI files, containing, on top of the original pitch, onsets and offsets, additional annotations.

The annotations include:

* Tempo curve

* Time signature

* Note values

* Key signature

* Sustain pedal activation

* Separate left and right hand staff

* Text annotations from the score (tempo indications, coda…)

All the annotations from the original MAPS dataset were preserved, these updated MIDI files can be used interchangeably with the original MAPS ground-truth MIDI files.

We hope that these annotations can be useful for musically-informed AMT systems, for other MIR tasks such as beat tracking, meter and key detection from audio, and can help working towards complete staff-notation music transcription.

Download, paper, and more information available at: http://c4dm.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/ycart/a-maps.html

We’ll be presenting this work at ISMIR 2018 in Paris during the Late Breaking/Demo session, come have a chat!

All the best,

Adrien Ycart

[Shlomi Tsur]

Awesome! thanks!