MTG - Music Technology Group
Participation of the MTG at ICASSP 2026 conference

The MTG is participating in the 2026 edition of ICASSP, one of the world's largest and most comprehensive technical conferences focused on signal processing and its applications. This year, the group has presence presenting several research papers and a specialized tutorial.
Here are the papers being presented in which MTG researchers are involved:
- Laura Ibáñez-Martínez, Chukwuemeka Nkama, Andrea Poltronieri, Xavier Serra, Martín Rocamora. "Evaluating Disentangled Representations for Controllable Music Generation"
- Hyon Kim, Emmanouil Benetos, Xavier Serra: “Velocity2DMs: A Contextual Modeling Approach to Dynamics Marking Prediction in Piano Performance”
- Pedro Ramoneda, Minhee Lee, Dasaem Jeong, J.J. Valero-Mas, Xavier Serra: “Can Audio Reveal Music Performance Difficulty? Insights From the Piano Syllabus Dataset”
- David López-Ayala, Asier Cabello, Pablo Zinemanas, Emilio Molina, Martín Rocamora: “AI-Generated Music Detection in Broadcast Monitoring”
- Pedro Ramoneda, Pablo Alonso-Jiménez, Sergio Oramas, Xavier Serra, Dmitry Bogdanov: “Benchmarking Music Autotagging with MGPHot Expert Annotations vs. Generic Tag Datasets”
- Andrea Poltronieri, Xavier Serra, Dmitry Bogdanov, Martín Rocamora, Pablo Alonso: “Current approaches to computational analysis of music audio signals”
More information about the conference: ICASSP 2026 Website
Some of the research works are supported by:
Cátedra UPF-BMAT en Inteligencia Artificial y Música (TSI-100929-2023-1). Project funded by Secretaría de Estado de Digitalización e Inteligencia Artificial, the European Union-Next Generation EU, and by BMAT Music Innovators, the Music Operating System
