Publications

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Learning from Silence and Noise for Visual Sound Source Localization

2025
Xavier Juanola, Giovana Morais, Magdalena Fuentes, Gloria Haro
British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC)
[to be updated]
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Balancing Information Preservation and Disentanglement in Self-Supervised Music Representation Learning

2025
Julia Wilkins, Sivan Ding, Magdalena Fuentes, Juan P. Bello
IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA)
[to be updated]
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Post-Training Quantization for Audio Diffusion Transformers

2025
Tanmay Khandelwal, Magdalena Fuentes
IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA)
[to be updated]
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Do Music Source Separation Models Preserve Spatial Information in Binaural Audio?

2025
Richa Namballa, Agnieszka Roginszka, Magdalena Fuentes
International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR)
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Domain Adaptation Method and Modality Gap Impact in Audio-Text Models for
Prototypical Sound Classification

2025
Emiliano Acevedo, Martín Rocamora, Magdalena Fuentes
Interspeech
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A Critical Assessment of Visual Sound Source Localization Models Including Negative Audio

2025
Xavier Juanola, Gloria Haro, Magdalena Fuentes
International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
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SONIQUE: Video Background Music Generation Using Unpaired Audio-Visual Data

2025
Liqian Zhang, Magdalena Fuentes
International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
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Twenty-Five Years of MIR Research: Achievements, Practices, Evaluations, and Future Challenges

2025
Geoffroy Peeters*,  Zafar Rafii*, Magdalena Fuentes*, Zhiyao Duan, Emmanouil Benetos, Juhan Nam, Yuki Mitsufuji
International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
* Equal contribution
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“Choices? That’s the dream”: challenges and opportunities in non-speech information closed-captioning

2025
Lloyd May, Michael Clemens, Khang Dang, Keita Ohshiro, Sripathi Sridhar, Pauline Wee, Magdalena Fuentes, Sooyeon Lee, Mark Cartwright
Frontiers in Computer Science
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Skip That Beat: Augmenting Meter Tracking Models for Underrepresented Time Signatures

2024
Giovana Morais, Brian McFee, Magdalena Fuentes
Latin American Music Information Retrieval Workshop (LAMIR)
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Soundata: Reproducible Use of Audio Datasets

2024
Magdalena Fuentes, Genís Plaja-Roglans, Guillem Cortès-Sebastià, Tanmay  Khandelwal, Marius Miron, Xavier Serra, Juan P. Bello, Justin Salamon
Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS)
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Investigating Bell Patterns in Candomblé from Historical Field Recordings

2024
Lucas S. Maia, Richa  Namballa, Martín Rocamora, Magdalena Fuentes, Carlos Guedes
International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR)
chi2024

Unspoken Sound: Identifying Trends in Non-Speech Audio Captioning on YouTube

2024
Lloyd May, Keita Ohshiro, Khang Dang, Sripathi Sridhar, Jhanvi Pai,
Magdalena Fuentes, Sooyeon Lee, Mark Cartwright
ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)
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Sound Source Distance Estimation in Diverse and Dynamic Acoustic Conditions

2023
Saksham S. Kushwaha, Iran R. Roman, Magdalena Fuentes, Juan P. Bello
IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA)
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Two vs. Four-Channel Sound Event Localization and Detection

2023
Julia Wilkins, Magdalena Fuentes, Lucas Bondi, Shabnam Ghaffarzadegan, Ali Abavisani, Juan P. Bello
Workshop on Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE)

Bridging High-Quality Audio and Video via Language for Sound Effects Retrieval from Visual Queries

2023
Julia Wilkins, Justin Salamon, Magdalena Fuentes, Juan P. Bello, Oriol Nieto
IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA)

Does a Quieter City Mean Fewer Complaints? The Sounds of New York City During Covid-19 Lockdown

2023
Mark Cartwright, Magdalena Fuentes, Charlie Mydlarz, Fabio Miranda, Juan P. Bello
International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)

A Study on Robustness to Perturbations for Representations of Environmental Sound

2022
Sangeeta Srivastava, Ho-Hsiang Wu, João Rulff, Magdalena Fuentes, Mark  Cartwright, Claudio Silva, Anish Arora, Juan P. Bello
European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO)

Urban Sound & Sight: Dataset And Benchmark For Audio-Visual Urban Scene Understanding

2022
M Fuentes, B Steers, P Zinemanas, M Rocamora, L Bondi, J Wilkins, Q Shi, Y Hou, S Das, X Serra, JP Bello
International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)

Adapting Meter Tracking Models to Latin American Music

2022
LS Maia, M Rocamora, LWP Biscainho, M Fuentes
International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR)

REIP: A Reconfigurable Environmental Intelligence Platform and Software Framework for Fast Sensor Network Prototyping

2022
Y Piadyk, B Steers, C Mydlarz, M Salman, M Fuentes, J Khan, H Jiang, K Ozbay, JP Bello, C Silva
Sensors Journal

MONYC: Music of New York City Dataset

2021
M Fuentes, D Zhao, V Lostanlen, M Cartwright, C Mydlarz, JP Bello
Workshop on Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE)

Exploring modality-agnostic representations for music classification

2021
HH Wu, M Fuentes, JP Bello
Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC)

On the use of automatic onset detection for the analysis of maracatu de baque solto

2021
J Fonseca, M Fuentes, F Bonini Baraldi, M EP Davies
Perspectives on Music, Sound and Musicology: Research, Education and Practice

Moving in time: Computational analysis of microtiming in maracatu de baque solto

2020
MEP Davies, M Fuentes, J Fonseca, L Aly, M Jerónimo, FB Baraldi, MARL CUSP
21st International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, ISMIR

A Music Structure Informed Downbeat Tracking System Using Skip-chain Conditional Random Fields and Deep Learning

2019
M Fuentes, B McFee, HC Crayencour, S Essid, JP Bello
ICASSP 2019-2019 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)

mirdata: Software for Reproducible Usage of Datasets

2019
R Bittner, M Fuentes, D Rubinstein, A Jansson, K Choi, T Kell

Tracking Beats and Microtiming in Afro-Latin American Music Using Conditional Random Fields and Deep Learning

2019
Magdalena Fuentes, Lucas S. Maia, Martín Rocamora, Luiz W.P. Biscainho, Hélène C. Crayencour, Slim Essid

SAMBASET: A Dataset of Historical Samba de Enredo Recordings for Computational Music Analysis

2019
Lucas S. Maia, Magdalena Fuentes, Luiz W.P. Biscainho, Martín Rocamora, Slim Essid
International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR)

Analysis of Common Design Choices in Deep Learning Systems for Downbeat Tracking 

2019
Magdalena Fuentes, Brian McFee, Héléne C. Crayencour, Slim Essid, Juan P. Bello
International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR)

A Novel Dataset of Brazilian Rhythmic Instruments and Some Experiments in Computational Rhythm Analysis

2019
Lucas S. Maia, Pedro Donadio, Magdalena Fuentes, Martín Rocamora, Luiz W.P. Biscainho, Mauricio V. M. Da Costa, Sara Cohen
AES Latin American Conference (AES-LAC)

An ENF-Based Audio Authenticity Method Robust to MP3 Compression

2018
Pablo Zinemanas, Magdalena Fuentes, Pablo Cancela, José Antonio Apolinário
Journal of Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing, Springer

Detection of ENF Discontinuities Using PLL for Audio Authenticity

2016
Magdalena Fuentes, Pablo Zinemanas, Pablo Cancela, José Antonio Apolinário
IEEE Latin American Symposium on Circuits & Systems (LASCAS)

Detection of Follicles in Ultrasound Videos of Bovine Ovaries

2016
Álvaro Gómez, Guillermo Carbajal, Magdalena Fuentes, Carolina Viñoles
Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition (CIARP)

An Audio-Visual Database of Candombe Performances for Computational Musicological Studies

2015
Martín Rocamora, Luis Jure, Bernardo Marenco, Magdalena Fuentes, Florencia Lanzaro, Álvaro Gómez
International Congress on Science and Music Technology (CICTeM)

A Multimodal Approach for Percussion Music Transcription from Audio and Video

2015
Bernardo Marenco, Magdalena Fuentes, Florencia Lanzaro, Martín Rocamora, Álvaro Gómez
Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition (CIARP)

Abstracts and white papers

CARAT: computer-aided rhythmic analysis toolbox

2019
M Rocamora, L Jure, M Fuentes, L Maia, L Biscainho
ISMIR 2019: 20th Conference of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval, Delft, Netherlands, 4-8 nov, 2019