The Top Academic Conference in Music Artificial Intelligence
First Case in Korea
Professor Jung Da-saem's research team from the Department of Arc and Technology at Sogang University won the Best Paper Award at the international academic conference ISMIR2024.
Sogang University announced on the 1st that Professor Jung's research team and Mark Gotham from King's College London in the UK jointly presented a paper at ISMIR2024, the top conference in the field of music artificial intelligence, and won the Best Paper Award. This is the first case for a domestic research team.
Research team led by Professor Jung Da-saem at Sogang University, (from top left) Professor Jung Da-saem of the Department of Art & Technology, Han Dan-bi-na-rin, Master's student, Kim Dong-min, Master's student in the Department of Artificial Intelligence, Park Han-na, Bachelor's student in the Department of Computer Science, Lee Si-hoon, Master's student in the Graduate School of Artificial Intelligence. Photo by Sogang University
ISMIR, an international academic conference, is a prestigious conference where papers are presented by various universities worldwide as well as global companies such as Meta, TikTok, Adobe, and Spotify. ISMIR2024 was held from the 10th to the 14th of last month at The Hyatt Regency in San Francisco, USA.
The research team presented the paper titled "Six Dragons Fly Again: Reviving 15th-Century Korean Court Music with Transformers and Novel Encoding" at ISMIR2024. In this paper, they proposed a method to regenerate "Chihwapyeong" and "Chwipung-hyeong," compositions by King Sejong from the 15th century, which have only been preserved as vocal scores, into performable modern Jeongak Jeongganbo notation for six instruments using deep learning.
The research team developed an optical music recognition technology capable of automatically recognizing Jeongak Jeongganbo from the National Gugak Center and constructed a Jeongganbo dataset. They also devised an encoding method that efficiently utilizes Jeongganbo and used a transformer-based language model to regenerate the melodies of 15th-century Chihwapyeong and Chwipung-hyeong into forms playable in modern times. Furthermore, they implemented and released an interactive web demo so that general users can easily try the model.
The final generated work was performed at the "King Sejong's Birthday" 627th anniversary event held on May 14th at Sujeongjeon Hall in Gyeongbokgung Palace.
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