Abstract
dc:description.abstractArtificial music generation is a rapidly developing field focused on the complex task of creating neural networks that can produce realistic-sounding music. Generating music is very difficult; components like long and short term structure present time complexity, which can be difficult for neural networks to capture. Additionally, the acoustics of musical features like harmonies and chords, as well as timbre and instrumentation require complex representations for a network to accurately generate them. Various techniques for both music representation and network architecture have been used in the past decade to address these challenges in music generation. The focus of this thesis extends beyond generating music to the challenge of controlling and/or conditioning that generation. Conditional generation involves an additional piece or pieces of information which are input to the generator and constrain aspects of the results. Conditioning can be used to specify a tempo for the generated song, increase the density of notes, or even change the genre. Latent walking is one of the most popular techniques in conditional image generation, but its effectiveness on music-domain generation is largely unexplored. This paper focuses on latent walking techniques for conditioning the music generation network MuseGAN and examines the impact of this conditioning on the generated music.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Master of Science
- Level thesis:degree_level
- masters
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Computer Engineering
- Department dc:contributor.department
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Grantor dc:publisher
- Virginia Tech
- Year dc:date.issued
- 2020
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Eisenbeiser, Logan Ryan
- Chairs dc:contributor.committeechair
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- Gerdes, Ryan M.
- Freeman, Laura J.
- Committee member dc:contributor.committeemember
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- Wang, Yue J.
Subjects
dc:subject × 4Rights
dc:rights- Statement dc:rights
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- In Copyright
- Licence dc:rights.uri
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Dc Identifier Other
- vt_gsexam:27353
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/100052