Downbeat Tracking

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Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

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Syntology column: samples harvested from the paper's repositories and executed on synthesized fixtures; “ran” is not a correctness claim and does not order the table. A dash means no Syntology record for that paper, not a recorded non-run. Read from the graph 2026-09-24.

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Datasets archive 2025-07-28

13 datasets whose archive record lists this task, ordered by the archive's paper count.

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Most implemented papers archive 2025-07-28

8 shown of 8 papers with code (11 tagged with this task in all), ordered by repositories listed in the archive, not by stars (the archive holds no stars, so PwC's “Social” and “Latest” sorts cannot be reproduced). Papers without a page here are shown as plain text.

• BeatNet: CRNN and Particle Filtering for Online Joint Beat Downbeat and Meter Tracking
  8 Aug 2021 4 repositories listed
  The online estimation of rhythmic information, such as beat positions, downbeat positions, and meter, is critical for many real-time music applications.
• All-In-One Metrical And Functional Structure Analysis With Neighborhood Attentions on Demixed Audio
  31 Jul 2023 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 2 of 6 samples · 4 unverified
  Music is characterized by complex hierarchical structures.
• Beat this! Accurate beat tracking without DBN postprocessing
  31 Jul 2024 1 repository listed
  We propose a system for tracking beats and downbeats with two objectives: generality across a diverse music range, and high accuracy.
• WaveBeat: End-to-end beat and downbeat tracking in the time domain
  4 Oct 2021 1 repository listed
  In this work, we propose WaveBeat, an end-to-end approach for joint beat and downbeat tracking operating directly on waveforms.
• Source Separation-based Data Augmentation for Improved Joint Beat and Downbeat Tracking
  16 Jun 2021 1 repository listed Syntology ran 0 of 10 samples · 10 unverified
  Due to advances in deep learning, the performance of automatic beat and downbeat tracking in musical audio signals has seen great improvement in recent years.
• Drum-Aware Ensemble Architecture for Improved Joint Musical Beat and Downbeat Tracking
  16 Jun 2021 1 repository listed
  This paper presents a novel system architecture that integrates blind source separation with joint beat and downbeat tracking in musical audio signals.
• Omnizart: A General Toolbox for Automatic Music Transcription
  1 Jun 2021 1 repository listed
  We present and release Omnizart, a new Python library that provides a streamlined solution to automatic music transcription (AMT).
• Deep Learning-Based Automatic Downbeat Tracking: A Brief Review
  10 Jun 2019 1 repository listed
  Thereinto, downbeat tracking has been a fundamental and continuous problem in Music Information Retrieval (MIR) area.

Syntology lines on 2 of the papers shown; no Syntology record for the others (a paper without an arXiv id cannot be joined to the graph, and absence from the graph layer is not a recorded non-run). “Ran” means the sample executed on a synthesized fixture, not that the paper's result was reproduced. Read from the graph 2026-09-24.