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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).
2018. Real-Time Binaural Auralization. ISTD. PhD NatalieAngus_PhD_Thesis_01Jul18.pdf (6.19 MB)
NatalieAngus_PhD_Thesis_01Jul18.pdf (6.19 MB).
2024. Modern Portfolio Construction with Advanced Deep Learning Models. SUTD. PhD Joel_Ong_Thesis.pdf (3.44 MB)
Joel_Ong_Thesis.pdf (3.44 MB).
2020. Data-driven 3D Scene Understanding. PhD
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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).
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).
2014. Generating structured music using quality metrics based on Markov models. wp_bagana.pdf (1.7 MB)
wp_bagana.pdf (1.7 MB).
2024. Gamification and skills tree. Trends and Foresight Report on Cyber-Physical Learning.
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2012. Composing Fifth Species Counterpoint Music With Variable Neighborhood Search. wp_cp5.pdf (508 KB)
wp_cp5.pdf (508 KB).
2018. Blacklisted speaker identification using triplet neural networks. MCE2018 competition. SUTD_description.pdf (133.08 KB)
SUTD_description.pdf (133.08 KB).
2025. Royalties in the age of AI: paying artists for AI-generated songs. WIPO Magazine.
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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. A white paper on cyberphysical learning. White paper, Singapore University of Technology and Design. LSL_WhitePaper_Cyber-physical-Campus-Higher-Education.pdf (6.98 MB)
LSL_WhitePaper_Cyber-physical-Campus-Higher-Education.pdf (6.98 MB).
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).
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).
2021. Underwater Acoustic Communication Receiver Using Deep Belief Network. IEEE Transactions on Communications. :1-1. 2102.13397.pdf (12.87 MB)
2102.13397.pdf (12.87 MB).
2025. Towards the future of education: cyber-physical learning. Discover Education. 4:1–16.
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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).
2025. Text2midi: Generating Symbolic Music from Captions. Proceedings of AAAI, Philadelphia. 2412.16526v2.pdf (569.51 KB)
2412.16526v2.pdf (569.51 KB).
2025. SonicMaster: Towards Controllable All-in-One Music Restoration and Mastering. arXiv:2508.03448. 2508.03448v2.pdf (3.31 MB)
2508.03448v2.pdf (3.31 MB).
2022. Single Image Video Prediction with Auto-Regressive GANs. Sensors. 22:3533.
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2018. Singing Voice Separation Using a Deep Convolutional Neural Network Trained by Ideal Binary Mask and Cross Entropy. Neural Computing and Applications. main.pdf (2.59 MB)
main.pdf (2.59 MB).
2025. PRESENT: Zero-Shot Text-to-Prosody Control. IEEE Signal Processing Letters. 2408.06827v1.pdf (367.55 KB)
2408.06827v1.pdf (367.55 KB).
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. 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).
2018. A Novel Interface for the Graphical Analysis of Music Practice Behaviours. Frontiers in Psychology - Human-Media Interaction. 9 practice_browser.pdf (4.9 MB)
practice_browser.pdf (4.9 MB).
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).
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).
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).
2023. A Multimodal Model with Twitter Finbert Embeddings for Extreme Price Movement Prediction of Bitcoin. Expert Systems with Applications. 2206.00648.pdf (3.26 MB)
2206.00648.pdf (3.26 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).
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).
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).
2025. MelodySim: Measuring Melody-aware Music Similarity for Plagiarism Detection. arXiv:2505.20979.
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2019. Machine Learning Research that Matters for Music Creation: A Case Study. Journal of New Music Research. 48(1):36-55. concert_paper_preprint.pdf (1.6 MB)
concert_paper_preprint.pdf (1.6 MB).
2025. LLMs Can't Handle Peer Pressure: Crumbling under Multi-Agent Social Interactions. arXiv:2508.18321.
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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).
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. 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).
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).
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).
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).
2025. An exploration of controllability in symbolic music infilling. IEEE Access.
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2021. Evaluating the Effectiveness of an Augmented Reality Game Promoting Environmental Action. Sustainability. 13(24):13912. sustainability-13-13912.pdf (16.23 MB)
sustainability-13-13912.pdf (16.23 MB).
2022. EmoMV: Affective Music-Video Correspondence Learning Datasets for Classification and Retrieval. Information Fusion. SSRN-id4189323.pdf (2.01 MB)
SSRN-id4189323.pdf (2.01 MB).
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).
2022. Downscaling using Deep Convolutional Autoencoders, a case study for South East Asia. Egusphere preprint. egusphere-2022-234.pdf (8.99 MB)
egusphere-2022-234.pdf (8.99 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).
2025. Demystifying deep search: a holistic evaluation with hint-free multi-hop questions and factorised metrics. arXiv:2510.05137.
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2024. DeepUnifiedMom: Unified Time-series Momentum Portfolio Construction via Multi-Task Learning with Multi-Gate Mixture of Experts. arXiv:2406.08742. 2406.08742v1.pdf (1.06 MB)
2406.08742v1.pdf (1.06 MB).
2021. Deep Neural Network Based Respiratory Pathology Classification Using Cough Sounds. Sensors. 21(16):5555. 2106.12174.pdf (6.52 MB)
2106.12174.pdf (6.52 MB).
2014. Dance hit song prediction. Journal of New music Research. 43:302. wp_hit.pdf (689.07 KB)
wp_hit.pdf (689.07 KB).
2023. Constructing Time-Series Momentum Portfolios with Deep Multi-Task Learning. Expert Systems with Applications. 230(120587) 2306.13661.pdf (707.95 KB)
2306.13661.pdf (707.95 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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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. Compose ≡ compute. 4OR. 13:335–336.
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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).
2025. BandCondiNet: Parallel Transformers-based Conditional Popular Music Generation with Multi-View Features. Expert Systems with Applications. 130059 2407.10462v2.pdf (2.6 MB)
2407.10462v2.pdf (2.6 MB).
2021. AttendAffectNet – Emotion Prediction of Movie Viewers Using Multimodal Fusion with Self-attention. Sensors. Special issue on Intelligent Sensors: Sensor Based Multi-Modal Emotion Recognition. sensors-21-08356.pdf (1.03 MB)
sensors-21-08356.pdf (1.03 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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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).
2021. aiSTROM - A roadmap for developing a successful AI strategy. IEEE Access.
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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).
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).
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).
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).
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).
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. 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).
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).
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).
2020. Generative Modelling for Controllable Audio Synthesis of Expressive Piano Performance. Workshop on Machine Learning for Music Discover (ML4MD) as part of ICML. 2006.09833.pdf (2.81 MB)
2006.09833.pdf (2.81 MB).
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).
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).
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).
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).
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).
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).
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).
2020. Unsupervised disentanglement of pitch and timbre for isolated musical instrument sounds. Proceedings of the International Society of Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR).
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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).
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).
2026. Text2midi-InferAlign: Improving Symbolic Music Generation with Inference-Time Alignment. ICASSP.
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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).
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. 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. Smart Timing for Mining: A Deep Learning Framework for Bitcoin Hardware ROI Prediction. 2512.05402v1.pdf (908 KB)
2512.05402v1.pdf (908 KB).
2020. Singing voice conversion with disentangled representations of singer and vocal technique using variational autoencoders. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP). 1912.02613.pdf (2.9 MB)
1912.02613.pdf (2.9 MB).
2026. Scaffolded Vulnerability: Chatbot-Mediated Reciprocal Self-Disclosure and Need-Supportive Interaction in Couples. Proceedings of CHI.
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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).
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).
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).
2021. ReconVAT: A Semi-Supervised Automatic Music Transcription Framework for Low-Resource Real-World Data. ACM Multimedia.
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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).
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).
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).
2024. Mustango: Toward Controllable Text-to-Music Generation. Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers). pages 8293–8316. 2311.08355 (1).pdf (11.38 MB)
2311.08355 (1).pdf (11.38 MB)