@article{BalkeBM25_ChoraleBricks_TISMIR,
author = {Stefan Balke and Axel Berndt and Meinard M{\"u}ller},
title = {{ChoraleBricks}: {A} Modular Multitrack Dataset for Wind Music Research},
journal = {Transaction of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval ({TISMIR})},
volume = {8},
number = {1},
pages = {39--54},
year = {2025},
doi = {10.5334/tismir.252},
url-pdf = {2025_BalkeBM_ChoraleBricks_TISMIR_ePrint.pdf},
url-demo = {https://www.audiolabs-erlangen.de/resources/MIR/2025-ChoraleBricks},
url-details={https://transactions.ismir.net/articles/10.5334/tismir.252}
}
@inproceedings{SchwaerBM25_SensoryDissonance_ISMIR,
author = {Simon Schw{\"a}r and Stefan Balke and Meinard M{\"u}ller},
title = {Measuring Sensory Dissonance in Multi-Track Music Recordings: {A} Case Study with Wind Quartets},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference ({ISMIR})},
pages = {1--8},
address = {Daejeon, South Korea},
year = {2025},
url-pdf = {2025_SchwaerBM_SensoryDissonance_ISMIR.pdf},
url-demo = {https://audiolabs-erlangen.de/resources/MIR/2025-ISMIR-SD}
}
@inproceedings{DittmarZBSM25_PulseIt_ISMIR-LBD,
author = {Christian Dittmar and Johannes Zeitler and Stefan Balke and Simon Schw{\"a}r and Meinard M{\"u}ller},
title = {{PULSE-IT}: Lightweight and Expressive Synthesis of Wind Instrument Playing},
booktitle = {Late-Breaking and Demo Session of the International Conference on Music Information Retrieval ({ISMIR})},
address = {Daejeon, South Korea},
pages = {1--3},
year = {2025},
url-pdf = {2025_DittmarZBSM_PulseIt_ISMIR-LBD.pdf},
url-demo= {https://www.audiolabs-erlangen.de/resources/MIR/2025_DittmarZBSM_WindInstrumentSynth_ISMIR-LBD}
}
@inproceedings{MeierSSMB25_RealTimeSWIPE_CMMR,
author = {Peter Meier and Sebastian Strahl and Simon Schw{\"a}r and Meinard M{\"u}ller and Stefan Balke},
title = {Pitch estimation in real time: Revisiting {SWIPE} with causal windowing},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Symposium on Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research ({CMMR})},
address = {London, UK},
year = {2025, Accepted},
url-demo = {https://audiolabs-erlangen.de/resources/MIR/2025-CMMR-RTSWIPE}
}
@inproceedings{BalkeMM25_PersonaDesignWindMusic_ICMI,
author = {Stefan Balke and Peter Meier and Meinard M{\"u}ller},
title = {Practicing Alone, Playing Together: A Persona-Based Design Approach for Amateur Wind Musicians},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Workshop for Innovative Computer-based Music Interfaces ({ICMI})},
address = {Chemnitz, Germany},
year = {2025},
pages = {1--4},
doi = {10.18420/muc2025-mci-ws06-199},
url-pdf = {2025_BalkeMM_PersonaDesignWindMusic_ICMI.pdf}
}
@inproceedings{MeierMB25_IntonationMonitoring_ICMI,
author = {Peter Meier and Meinard M{\"u}ller and Stefan Balke},
title = {A Multi-User Interface for Real-Time Intonation Monitoring in Music Ensembles},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Workshop for Innovative Computer-based Music Interfaces ({ICMI})},
address = {Chemnitz, Germany},
year = {2025},
pages = {1--4},
doi = {10.18420/muc2025-mci-ws06-202},
url-demo = {https://www.audiolabs-erlangen.de/resources/MIR/2025-ICMI-Intonation},
url-pdf = {2025_MeierMB_IntonationMonitoring_ICMI.pdf}
}
@article{MuellerBG25_RWCStory_TISMIR,
author = {Meinard M{\"u}ller and Stefan Balke and Masataka Goto},
title = {The Story Behind the RWC Music Database: An Interview with Masataka Goto},
journal = {Transaction of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval ({TISMIR})},
volume = {8},
number = {1},
pages = {154--164},
year = {2025},
doi = {10.5334/tismir.261},
url-pdf = {2025_MuellerBG_RWCStory_TISMIR_ePrint.pdf},
url-details={https://transactions.ismir.net/articles/10.5334/tismir.261},
url-demo = {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5bGqHJjONA&list=PLpaL3fT5fH2ohNCY3nw_k63H7ozkixvp5}
}
@inproceedings{MeierMB25_WindPitchEstimation_SMC,
author = {Peter Meier and Meinard M{\"u}ller and Stefan Balke},
title = {Analyzing Pitch Estimation Accuracy in Cross-Talk Scenarios: {A} Study with Wind Instruments},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Sound and Music Computing Conference ({SMC})},
address = {Graz, Austria},
year = {2025},
pages = {3--10},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.15835032},
url-pdf = {2025_MeierMB_WindPitchEstimation_SMC.pdf},
url-demo = {https://www.audiolabs-erlangen.de/resources/MIR/2025-SMC-PitchCrosstalk},
url-details={https://zenodo.org/records/15835033}
}
@article{VogtABBL25_WiesoErkenntAlexaMeineStimme_GfdM,
title={Wieso erkennt Alexa meine Stimme? Soundanalyse im Mathematikunterricht},
author={Martin Vogt and Abrar Ahmed and Stefan Balke and Simone Bast and Saskia Laufer},
journal={Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft f{\"u}r Didaktik der Mathematik},
number={118},
pages={14--20},
year={2025},
publisher={Gesellschaft f{\"u}r Didaktik der Mathematik e.V.},
url-pdf = {2025_VogtABBL_WiesoErkenntAlexaMeineStimme_GfdM.pdf},
}
@inproceedings{BalkeM23_DigAmateurmusik_GI,
author = {Stefan Balke and Adrian Maiworm},
title = {Digitalisierung in der Amateurmusik},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the GI Jahrestagung},
series = {{LNI}},
volume = {{P-337}},
pages = {841--850},
publisher = {Gesellschaft f{\"{u}}r Informatik, Bonn},
year = {2023},
doi = {10.18420/INF2023_94},
url-pdf = {2023_BalkeM_DigitalesNotenarchiv_GI.pdf}
}
@inproceedings{Balke23_SinfonischeBlasmusikBeats_DAGA,
title = {Sinfonische {Blasmusik} als neuer {Anwendungsfall} in der automatisierten {Musikverarbeitung}},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Deutsche} {Jahrestagung} für {Akustik} ({DAGA})},
address = {Hamburg, Germany},
author = {Stefan Balke},
year = {2023},
pages = {1366--1369},
url-pdf = {2023_Balke_SinfonischeBlasmusik_DAGA.pdf},
}
@inproceedings{MeissnerMKB23_Musikraumakustik_DAGA,
title = {{MusikRaumAkustik}: {Ein} {Pilotprojekt} zur {Verbesserung} der {Akustik} in {Proben}- und {Aufführungsräumen} der {Amateurmusik}},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Deutsche} {Jahrestagung} für {Akustik} ({DAGA})},
address = {Hamburg, Germany},
author = {Saskia Meissner and Arnold Meissner and Christoph Karle and Stefan Balke},
year = {2023},
pages = {1255--1257},
url-pdf = {2023_MeissnerMKB_MusikRaumAkustik_DAGA.pdf},
}
@article{BalkeRWAM22_JSD_TISMIR,
title = {{JSD}: {A} {Dataset} for {Structure} {Analysis} in {Jazz} {Music}},
volume = {5},
doi = {doi.org/10.5334/tismir.131},
number = {1},
journal = {Transaction of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval ({TISMIR})},
author = {Stefan Balke and Julian Reck and Christof Weiß and Jakob Abeßer and Meinard M{\"u}ller},
year = {2022},
pages = {156--172},
url-pdf = {2022_BalkeRWAM_JSD_TISMIR.pdf},
}
@inproceedings{Zahera2022Tab2Onto,
author = {Hamada M. Zahera and Stefan Heindorf and Stefan Balke and Jonas Haupt and Martin Voigt and Carolin Walter and Fabian Witter and Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo},
title = {{Tab2Onto:} {U}nsupervised Semantification with Knowledge Graph Embeddings},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the European Semantic Web Conference ({ESWC})},
url = {https://papers.dice-research.org/2022/ESWC_Tab2Onto/Tab2Onto_public.pdf},
year = {2022}
}
@article{BalkeHSH22_DatendribbleSoccerAnalytics_cfo,
author = {Stefan Balke and Joseph Horgan and Pascal Schulz and Sascha Henzgen},
title = {Datendribble: Die Bedeutung von Daten und Machine Learning im Sport},
journal = {CFO aktuell - Zeitschrift für Finance und Controlling},
volume = {16},
number = {2},
pages = {70--72},
year = {2022}
}
@article{ZalkowBAM20_MTD_TISMIR,
title = {{MTD}: {A} Multimodal Dataset of Musical Themes for {MIR} Research},
author = {Frank Zalkow and Stefan Balke and Vlora Arifi-M{\"u}ller and Meinard M{\"u}ller},
journal = {Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval ({TISMIR})},
volume = {3},
number = {1},
year = {2020},
pages = {180--192},
doi = {10.5334/tismir.68},
}
@article{HenkelBDW_ScoFoRL_TISMIR,
author = {Florian Henkel and Stefan Balke and Matthias Dorfer and Gerhard Widmer},
title = {Score Following as a Multi-Modal Reinforcement Learning Problem},
journal = {Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval ({TISMIR})},
volume = {2},
number = {1},
pages = {67--81},
year = {2019},
doi = {http://doi.org/10.5334/tismir.31}
}
@article{MuellerABDW19_MusicRetrieval_IEEE-SPM,
author = {Meinard M{\"u}ller and Andreas Arzt and Stefan Balke and Matthias Dorfer and Gerhard Widmer},
title = {Cross-Modal Music Retrieval and Applications: An Overview of Key Methodologies},
journal = {{IEEE} Signal Processing Magazine},
volume = {36},
number = {1},
pages = {52--62},
year = {2019},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/MSP.2018.2868887},
doi = {10.1109/MSP.2018.2868887}
}
@inproceedings{BalkeDCAW_LearningSoftAtt_ISMIR,
author = {Stefan Balke and Matthias Dorfer and Luis Carvalho and Andreas Arzt and Gerhard Widmer},
title = {Learning Soft-Attention Models for Tempo-invariant Audio-Sheet Music Retrieval},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Music Information Retrieval ({ISMIR})},
address = {Delft, The Netherlands},
month = {November},
year = {2019},
pages = {216--222}
}
@inproceedings{CancinoBHSW_ConEspressioneDemo_ISMIR-LBD,
author = {Carlos Eduardo Cancino-Chacon and Stefan Balke and Florian Henkel and Christian Stussak and Gerhard Widmer},
title = {The Con Espressione! Exhibit: Exploring Human-Machine Collaboration in Expressive Performance},
booktitle = {Late-Breaking and Demo Session of the International Conference on Music Information Retrieval ({ISMIR})},
address = {Delft, The Netherlands},
year = {2019}
}
@inproceedings{ZalkowBM19_SalienceRep_ICASSP,
author = {Frank Zalkow and Stefan Balke and Meinard M{\"u}ller},
title = {Evaluating Salience Representations for Cross-Modal Retrieval of Western Classical Music Recordings},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {IEEE} International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing ({ICASSP})},
address = {Brighton, UK},
month = {May},
year = {2019},
pages = {331--335},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.2019.8683609}
}
@phdthesis{Balke18_Thesis_PhD,
author = {Stefan Balke},
title = {Multimedia Processing Techniques for Retrieving, Extracting, and Accessing Musical Content},
school = {Friedrich-Alexander-Universit{\"a}t Erlangen-N{\"u}rnberg (FAU)},
type = {doctoralthesis},
pages = {146},
address = {Erlangen, Germany},
year = {2018},
url-details = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:29-opus4-96358}
}
@inproceedings{AbesserBM18_BassSaliency_ISMIR,
author = {Jakob Abe{\ss}er and Stefan Balke and Meinard M{\"u}ller},
title = {Improving Bass Saliency Estimation using Label Propagation and Transfer Learning},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference ({ISMIR})},
pages = {306--312},
address = {Paris, France},
year = {2018}
}
@inproceedings{WeissBAM18_JazzComplexity_ISMIR,
author = {Christof Wei{\ss} and Stefan Balke and Jakob Abe{\ss}er and Meinard M{\"u}ller},
title = {Computational Corpus Analysis: A Case Study on Jazz Solos},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference ({ISMIR})},
pages = {416--423},
address = {Paris, France},
year = {2018}
}
@inproceedings{BalkeDM18_TranskriptionJazzsoli_DAGA,
author = {Stefan Balke and Christian Dittmar and Meinard M{\"u}ller},
title = {{A}ns{\"a}tze zur datengetriebenen {T}ranskription einstimmiger {J}azzsoli},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {D}eutsche {J}ahrestagung f{\"u}r {A}kustik ({DAGA})},
address = {M{\"u}nchen, Germany},
year = {2018},
pages = {1530--1532},
url-pdf = {2018_BalkeDM_TranskriptionJazzsoli_DAGA_PrintedVersion.pdf}
}
@article{BalkeDAFPM17_JazzYoutube_Frontiers,
author = {Stefan Balke and Christian Dittmar and Jakob Abe{\ss}er and Klaus Frieler and Martin Pfleiderer and Meinard M{\"u}ller},
title = {Bridging the {G}ap: {E}nriching {Y}ou{T}ube Videos with Jazz Music Annotations},
journal = {Frontiers in Digital Humanities},
volume = {5},
number = {},
pages = {1--11},
year = {2018},
doi = {10.3389/fdigh.2018.00001},
url-details = {http://mir.audiolabs.uni-erlangen.de/jazztube},
url-pdf = {2018_BalkeDAFPM_JazzMultimedia_Frontier.pdf}
}
@article{DittmarPBM17_SwingRatio_JNMR,
author = {Christian Dittmar and Martin Pfleiderer and Stefan Balke and Meinard M{\"u}ller},
title = {A Swingogram Representation for Tracking Micro-Rhythmic Variation in Jazz Performances},
journal = {Journal of New Music Research},
volume = {47},
number = {2},
pages = {97--113},
year = {2018},
doi = {10.1080/09298215.2017.1367405},
url-details = {https://www.audiolabs-erlangen.de/resources/MIR/2017-JNMR-SwingRatio}
}
@incollection{BalkeM17_JazztubeInsideTheJazzomat_Schott,
author = {Stefan Balke and Meinard M{\"u}ller},
title = {{J}azz{T}ube: {L}inking the {W}eimar {J}azz {D}atabase with {Y}ou{T}ube},
pages = {315--317},
editor = {Martin Pfleiderer and Klaus Frieler and Jakob Jakob Abe{\ss}er and Wolf-Georg Zaddach and Benjamin Burkhart},
booktitle = {Inside the {J}azzomat. {N}ew perspectives for jazz research},
publisher = {{S}chott {C}ampus},
address = {Mainz, Germany},
year = {2017},
isbn = {978-3-95983-124-6},
url-details = {http://schott-campus.com/jazzomat/}
}
@inproceedings{BalkeBTM17_JazzPiano_GI,
author = {Stefan Balke and Paul Bie{\ss}mann and Sebastian Trump and Meinard M{\"u}ller},
title = {Konzeption und Umsetzung webbasierter Werkzeuge für das Erlernen von Jazz-Piano},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the GI Jahrestagung},
pages = {61--73},
location = {Chemnitz, Germany},
year = {2017},
doi = {10.18420/in2017_03},
url-demo = {http://mir.audiolabs.uni-erlangen.de/jazz-piano/},
url-presentation = {2017_BalkeBTM_JazzPiano_GI_poster.pdf},
url-pdf = {2017_BalkeBTM_JazzPiano_GI.pdf}
}
@inproceedings{BalkeHSAMM17_WalkuerenOnline_GI,
author = {Stefan Balke and Manuel Hiemer and Peter Schwab and Vlora Arifi-M{\"u}ller and Klaus Meyer-Wegener and Meinard M{\"u}ller},
title = {Die Oper als Multimedia Szenario: Wagners Walk{\"u}ren gehen online},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the GI Jahrestagung},
pages = {75--86},
location = {Chemnitz, Germany},
year = {2017},
doi = {10.18420/in2017_04},
url-demo = {http://mir.audiolabs.uni-erlangen.de/jazz-piano/},
url-presentation = {2017_BalkeHSAMM_OpernInterface_GI_poster.pdf},
url-pdf = {2017_BalkeHSAMM_OpernInterface_GI.pdf}
}
@inproceedings{WernerBSME17_TrackswitchJSPlayer_WAC,
author = {Nils Werner and Stefan Balke and Fabian-Robert St{\"o}ter and Meinard M{\"u}ller and Bernd Edler},
title = {trackswitch.js: A Versatile Web-Based Audio Player for Presenting Scientific Results},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Web Audio Conference},
location = {London, UK},
year = {2017},
url-details = {https://github.com/audiolabs/trackswitch.js},
url-pdf = {2017_WernerBSME_TrackswitchJSPlayer_WAC}
}
@inproceedings{AbesserBFPM_JazzWalkingBassTrans_AES,
author = {Jakob Abe{\ss}er and Stefan Balke and Klaus Frieler and Martin Pfleiderer and Meinard M{\"u}ller},
title = {Deep Learning for Jazz Walking Bass Transcription},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {AES} International Conference on Semantic Audio},
pages = {202--209},
location = {Erlangen, Germany},
year = {2017},
url-details={https://www.audiolabs-erlangen.de/resources/MIR/2017-AES-WalkingBassTranscription},
url-presentation = {2017_AbesserBFPM_JazzWalkingBass_AES_presentation.pdf},
url-pdf = {2017_AbesserBFPM_JazzWalkingBass_AES.pdf}
}
@inproceedings{BalkeDAM_SoloVoiceEnhancement_ICASSP,
author = {Stefan Balke and Christian Dittmar and Jakob Abe{\ss}er and Meinard M{\"u}ller},
title = {Data-Driven Solo Voice Enhancement for Jazz Music Retrieval},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {IEEE} International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing ({ICASSP})},
pages = {196--200},
location = {New Orleans, USA},
year = {2017},
url-details={https://www.audiolabs-erlangen.de/resources/MIR/2017-ICASSP-SoloVoiceEnhancement},
url-pdf = {2017_BalkeDAM_SoloVoiceEnhancement_ICASSP.pdf},
url-presentation = {2017_BalkeDAM_SoloVoiceEnhancement_ICASSP_presentation.pdf}
}
@inproceedings{BalkeADDM16_FundFreq_ISMIR,
author = {Stefan Balke and Jakob Abe{\ss}er and Jonathan Driedger and Christian Dittmar and Meinard M{\"u}ller},
title = {Towards Evaluating Multiple Predominant Melody Annotations in Jazz Recordings},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Music Information Retrieval ({ISMIR})},
address = {New York, USA},
year = {2016},
pages = {246--252},
url-pdf = {2016_BalkeADDM_JazzSoloAnnotations_ISMIR.pdf},
url-presentation = {2016_BalkeADDM_JazzSoloAnnotations_ISMIR_poster.pdf},
url-details = {https://www.audiolabs-erlangen.de/resources/MIR/2016-ISMIR-Multiple-Annotations}
}
@inproceedings{DriedgerBEM16_Vibrato_ISMIR,
author = {Jonathan Driedger and Stefan Balke and Sebastian Ewert and Meinard M{\"u}ller},
title = {Template-Based Vibrato Analysis of Music Signals},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Music Information Retrieval ({ISMIR})},
address = {New York, USA},
year = {2016},
pages = {239--245},
url-pdf = {2016_DriedgerBEM_VibratoDetection_ISMIR.pdf},
url-details={https://www.audiolabs-erlangen.de/resources/MIR/2016-ISMIR-Vibrato}
}
@inproceedings{BalkeALM16_BarlowRetrieval_ICASSP,
author = {Stefan Balke and Vlora Arifi-M{\"u}ller and Lukas Lamprecht and Meinard M{\"u}ller},
title = {Retrieving Audio Recordings Using Musical Themes},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {IEEE} International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing ({ICASSP})},
address = {Shanghai, China},
year = {2016},
pages = {281--285},
url-presentation = {2016_BalkeALM_Matching_ICASSP_poster.pdf},
url-pdf = {2016_BalkeALM_Matching_ICASSP.pdf}
}
@inproceedings{BalkeM15_EvalGUI_ISMIR-LBD,
author = {Stefan Balke and Meinard M{\"u}ller},
title = {A Graphical User Interface for Understanding Audio Retrieval Results},
booktitle = {Demos and Late Breaking News of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference ({ISMIR})},
address = {Mal{\'a}ga, Spain},
year = {2015},
url-presentation = {2015_BalkeM_EvalGUI_ISMIR-LBD_poster.pdf},
url-pdf = {2015_BalkeM_EvalGUI_ISMIR-LBD.pdf}
}
@inproceedings{BalkePM15_MatchingMusicalThemes_ICASSP,
author = {Stefan Balke and Sanu Pulimootil Achankunju and Meinard M{\"u}ller},
title = {Matching Musical Themes based on Noisy {OCR} and {OMR} Input},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {IEEE} International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing ({ICASSP})},
address = {Brisbane, Australia},
year = {2015},
pages = {703--707},
url-presentation = {2015_BalkePulimootilMueller_MusicRetrieval_ICASSP_poster.pdf},
url-pdf = {2015_BalkePulimootilMueller_MusicRetrieval_ICASSP.pdf}
}
@inproceedings{BalkeLMPM15_Themen-Identifikation_DAGA,
author = {Stefan Balke and Lukas Lamprecht and Vlora Arifi-M{\"u}ller and Thomas Pr{\"a}tzlich and Meinard M{\"u}ller},
title = {{A}utomatisierte {I}dentifikation von {A}udioaufnahmen anhand symbolisch codierter musikalischer {T}hemen},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 41st Deutsche Jahrestagung f{\"u}r Akustik (DAGA)},
address = {N{\"u}rnberg, Germany},
year = {2015},
pages = {1521--1524},
url-presentation = {2015_BalkeLMPM_ThemaAudioID_DAGA_poster.pdf},
url-pdf = {2015_BalkeLMPM_ThemaAudioID_DAGA.pdf}
}
@inproceedings{NagelSDBW14_Accurate-Guidance_ICAD,
author = {Frederik Nagel and Fabian-Robert St{\"o}ter and Norberto Degara and Stefan Balke and David Worrall},
title = {Fast and accurate guidance - response times to navigational sounds},
Booktitle = {Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Auditory Display ({ICAD})},
address = {New York, USA},
year = {2014},
url-pdf = {2014_NagelSWB_Response-Time_ICAD.pdf}
}
@inproceedings{BatkeABE14_HRTF-resolution_AES,
author = {Johann-Markus Batke and Stefan Abeling and Stefan Balke and Gerald Enzner},
Title = {Investigation of HRTF Sets Using Content with Limited Spatial Resolution},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 135th Audio Engineering Society Convention},
organization = {Audio Engineering Society},
address = {New York, USA},
year = {2013}
}