Taking advantage of the fact that many audio and music researchers will be traveling to Barcelona to present their work at ICASSP 2026 (May 4–8, 2026), we are organizing a one-day workshop on Audio and Music Signal Processing at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) on Saturday, May 2, 2026, just prior to the conference.

The workshop is conceived as an informal, open forum for sharing research that will be presented at ICASSP the following week. Its goal is to foster early discussion, community exchange, and interaction between ICASSP authors and the local research community in a relaxed academic setting.

Schedule

9:30 - 11:00 Paper Session 1

• Sebastian Strahl, Johannes Zeitler (International Audio Laboratories Erlangen): "Differentiable MIR: Classical Concepts Meet End-to-End Learning”
• Laura Ibáñez-Martínez (UPF MTG): “Evaluating Disentangled Representations for Controllable Music Generation”
• Soham Korade (Walmart Global Tech India), Suswara Pochampally (IIT Madras): “Modeling, Visualizing, and Interacting with Raga Structure Using Symbolic Music Representations”
• Gerardo Roa-Dabike (University of Sheffield): “ICASSP 2026 Cadenza Challenge: Predicting Lyric Intelligibility”
• Sumit Kumar (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur): “Recognizing Ornaments in Vocal Indian Art Music with Active Annotation”
• Eleonora Mancini (Deezer Research): “Leveraging Whisper Embeddings for Audio-based Lyrics Matching”
• Andrea Poltronieri, Martín Rocamora, Dmitry Bogdanov (UPF MTG): “Current approaches to computational analysis of music audio signals (Tutorial)”
• Hyon Kim (UPF-MTG): “Velocity2DMs: A Contextual Modeling Approach to Dynamics Marking Prediction in Piano Performance”

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 - 13:00 Paper Session 2

• Pablo Alonso (UPF MTG): “Benchmarking Music Autotagging with MGPHot Expert Annotations vs. Generic Tag Datasets”
• Marius Miron (Earth Species Project): “Multi-layer attentive probing improves transfer of audio representations for bioacoustics”
• Pedro Ramoneda (UPF MTG): “Can Audio Reveal Music Performance Difficulty? Insights From the Piano Syllabus Dataset”
• Sofiene Kammoun (CentraleSupélec), Xavier Alameda-Pineda (Inria), Simon Leglaive (CentraleSupélec): “Modeling strategies for speech enhancement in the latent space of a neural audio codec”
• Riccardo Casciotti (Tampere University): “Incremental Learning for Audio Classification with Hebbian Deep Neural Networks”
• Dongmin Kim (MALer Lab), Jongmin Jung (Neutune/MALer Lab), Sihun Lee (MALer Lab): “U-MusT: A Unified Framework for Cross-modal Translation of Score Images, Symbolic Music, and Performance Audio”
• Francesca Ronchini, Luca Comanducci (Politecnico di Milano): “Mitigating data replication in text-to-audio generative diffusion models through anti-memorization guidance”
• David López (UPF MTG): “AI-Generated Music Detection in Broadcast Monitoring”

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch break

14:00- 15:30 Paper Session 3

• Javier Nistal (Sony CSL): “Context-Aware Stem Generation in Practice: Diff-A-Riff's GUI and Future Controls”
• Ivan Shanin: “Audio-to-Score Jazz Solo Transcription with the Rhythm Perceiver”
• Oriol Nieto (Adobe Research): “Sound Design AI with Structure and Generation”
• Brandon Carone (NYU-MARL): “The MUSE Benchmark: Probing Music Perception and Auditory Relational Reasoning in Audio LLMs”
• Sripathi Sridhar (New Jersey Institute of Technology): “Audiocards: Structured Metadata Improves Audio Language Models for Sound Design”
• Manu Harju (Tampere University): “Self-labeling sounds using optimal transport”
• Parampreet Singh (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur): “Explainable Deep Learning Analysis for Raga Identification in Indian Art Music”
• Zachary Novack (University of California San Diego): “Sonic BOOM! The Path Towards Fast and Interactive Sound Diffusion”

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 - 17:30 Paper Session 4

• Simon Schwär, Manuel Peters: “Differentiable Wind Instrument Synthesis with Pulsetables and Beyond”
• Alain Riou (Universal Music Group): “Automatic Music Sample Detection with Multi-Track Contrastive Learning”
• Bernardo Torres (Telecom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris): “Learning Linearity in Audio Consistency Autoencoders via Implicit Regularization”
• Zhanhong He (University of Western Australia): “Joint Estimation of Piano Dynamics & Structure”
• Hanyu Meng (The University of New South Wales): “Biologically Inspired Adaptive Front-end Paradigm For Robust Audio Signal Processing”
• Magdalena Fuentes (New York University): “Investigating Modality Contribution In Audio LLMs for Music”
• Minhui Lu: “Learning Vocal-Tract Area and Radiation with a Physics-Informed Webster Model”
• Yinghao Ma (C4DM QMUL): “AutoMV: An Automatic Multi-Agent System for Music Video Generation”

Registration

The registration is free and open to all the research community and students interestes in the topic.

Venue

Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Ciutadella Campus (Ramon Turró building, room 13.007)
Ramon Turró, 1, Barcelona
https://maps.app.goo.gl/Gu2hDu1KbhKPamq29

Getting there:

• By Metro: The nearest underground station is L4 Ciutadella-Vila Olímpica
• Tram: Both line T5 and line T6 stop at Wellington, which is the nearest station
• Bus: V27, V21, H16, 92, 36 

Organizers

Music Technology Group
Dmitry Bogdanov, Frederic Font, Martin Rocamora, Xavier Serra

Contact

[email protected]