Publications

TRACE: Trustworthy Reasoning from Acoustic Cues and Evidence

2026

Giovana Morais, Yujin Kim, Atilay Kucukoglu, Magdalena Fuentes

arXiv preprint, under review

Predicting Acoustic Fields from Point-Cloud Scans

2026

Yi Wu, Magdalena Fuentes, et al.

Preprint, under review

Reverberant Speech Conditioning for Material-Aware Acoustic Parameter Mapping

2026

Yi Wu, Olha Townsend, Qianqian Fang, Magdalena Fuentes, You Zhang

Preprint, under review

Uncovering shortcut learning in audio classifiers by discovering recurring concepts in temporal explanations

2026

Cecilia Bolaños, Luciana Ferrer, Magdalena Fuentes

arXiv preprint, under review

AI and Music at a Crossroads: The Role of the Music Information Retrieval (MIR) Community in Shaping Trustworthy, Open, and Culturally Inclusive Music‑AI

2026

Xavier Serra, Vinoo Alluri, Stefan Balke, Juan P. Bello, Emmanouil Benetos, Dmitry Bogdanov, Johanna Devaney, Magdalena Fuentes, et al.

Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval (TISMIR)

Spacing Out: On the Reliability of Binaural Music Source Separation Metrics

2026

Richa Namballa, Magdalena Fuentes

International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR)

An Evaluation Framework for Structured Audio Captions Validated by Controlled Perturbations

2026

Liang-Yuan Wu, Sripathi Sridhar, Mark Cartwright, Magdalena Fuentes

arXiv preprint

Investigating Modality Contribution in Audio LLMs for Music

2026

Giovana Morais, Magdalena Fuentes

IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)

The Vocal Eras Tour: Microtiming Trends Across Decades and Genres

2026

Elena Georgieva, Daniel Fernandes, Ethan Cajetan Menezes, Valerian Coelho, Magdalena Fuentes, Pablo Ripollés, Brian McFee

Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval (TISMIR)

Latent Multi-view Learning for Robust Environmental Sound Representations

2025

Sivan Ding, Julia Wilkins, Magdalena Fuentes, Juan P. Bello

Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE) Workshop

Post-Training Quantization for Audio Diffusion Transformers

2025

Tanmay Khandelwal, Magdalena Fuentes

IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA)

Remote intentional music listening intervention to support mental health in individuals with chronic stroke: study protocol for a feasibility trial

2025

Vasiliki Provias, Mehmet Atilay Kucukoglu, Atlas Robinson, Stephanie Yandun-Oyola, Richard He, Anna Palumbo, Aleksi J. Sihvonen, Yidan Shi, Matteo Malgaroli, Heidi Schambra, Magdalena Fuentes, Pablo Ripollés

BMJ Open

Learning from Silence and Noise for Visual Sound Source Localization

2025

Xavier Juanola, Giovana Morais, Magdalena Fuentes, Gloria Haro

British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC)

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)

Do Music Source Separation Models Preserve Spatial Information in Binaural Audio?

2025

Richa Namballa, Agnieszka Roginska, Magdalena Fuentes

International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR)

“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

Domain Adaptation Method and Modality Gap Impact in Audio-Text Models for Prototypical Sound Classification

2025

Emiliano Acevedo, Martín Rocamora, Magdalena Fuentes

Interspeech

SONIQUE: Video Background Music Generation Using Unpaired Audio-Visual Data

2025

Liqian Zhang, Magdalena Fuentes

IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)

A Critical Assessment of Visual Sound Source Localization Models Including Negative Audio

2025

Xavier Juanola, Gloria Haro, Magdalena Fuentes

IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)

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

IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)

* Equal contribution

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)

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)

Selective Annotation of Few Data for Beat Tracking of Latin American Music Using Rhythmic Features

2024

Lucas S. Maia, Martín Rocamora, Luiz W.P. Biscainho, Magdalena Fuentes

Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval (TISMIR)

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)

Investigating Time-Line-Based Music Traditions with Field Recordings: A Case Study of Candomblé Bell Patterns

2024

Lucas S. Maia, Richa Namballa, Martín Rocamora, Magdalena Fuentes, Carlos Guedes

International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR)

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)

Two vs. Four-Channel Sound Event Localization and Detection

2023

Julia Wilkins, Magdalena Fuentes, Luca Bondi, Shabnam Ghaffarzadegan, Ali Abavisani, Juan P. Bello

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)

A Multimodal Prototypical Approach for Unsupervised Sound Classification

2023

Saksham S. Kushwaha, Magdalena Fuentes

Interspeech

Tempo vs. Pitch: Understanding Self-Supervised Tempo Estimation

2023

Giovana Morais, Matthew E. P. Davies, Marcelo Queiroz, Magdalena Fuentes

IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)

FlowGrad: Using Motion for Visual Sound Source Localization

2023

Rajsuryan Singh, Pablo Zinemanas, Xavier Serra, Juan P. Bello, Magdalena Fuentes

IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)

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

IEEE 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

Magdalena Fuentes, Bea Steers, Pablo Zinemanas, Martín Rocamora, Luca Bondi, Julia Wilkins, Qianyi Shi, Yao Hou, Samarjit Das, Xavier Serra, Juan P. Bello

IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)

How to Listen? Rethinking Visual Sound Localization

2022

Ho-Hsiang Wu, Magdalena Fuentes, Prem Seetharaman, Juan P. Bello

Interspeech

Adapting Meter Tracking Models to Latin American Music

2022

Lucas S. Maia, Martín Rocamora, Luiz W.P. Biscainho, Magdalena Fuentes

International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR)

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

2022

Yurii Piadyk, Bea Steers, Charlie Mydlarz, Mahin Salman, Magdalena Fuentes, Junaid Khan, Hong Jiang, Kaan Ozbay, Juan P. Bello, Claudio Silva

Sensors

MONYC: Music of New York City Dataset

2021

Magdalena Fuentes, Danielle Zhao, Vincent Lostanlen, Mark Cartwright, Charlie Mydlarz, Juan P. Bello

Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE)

Exploring modality-agnostic representations for music classification

2021

Ho-Hsiang Wu, Magdalena Fuentes, Juan P. Bello

Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC)

SONYC-UST-V2: An Urban Sound Tagging Dataset with Spatiotemporal Context

2020

Mark Cartwright, Jason Cramer, Ana Elisa Méndez Méndez, Yu Wang, Ho-Hsiang Wu, Vincent Lostanlen, Magdalena Fuentes, Graham Dove, Charlie Mydlarz, Justin Salamon, Oded Nov, Juan P. Bello

Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE)

Moving in Time: Computational Analysis of Microtiming in Maracatu de Baque Solto

2020

Matthew E. P. Davies, Magdalena Fuentes, João Fonseca, Luís Aly, Marco Jerónimo, Filippo Bonini Baraldi

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

Magdalena Fuentes, Brian McFee, Hélène C. Crayencour, Slim Essid, Juan P. Bello

IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)

mirdata: Software for Reproducible Usage of Datasets

2019

Rachel M. Bittner, Magdalena Fuentes, David Rubinstein, Andreas Jansson, Keunwoo Choi, Thor Kell

International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR)

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, Juan P. Bello

International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR)

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)

An ENF-Based Audio Authenticity Method Robust to MP3 Compression

2018

Pablo Zinemanas, Magdalena Fuentes, Pablo Cancela, José Antonio Apolinário

Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing, Springer

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

2018

Magdalena Fuentes, Brian McFee, Hélène 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

2018

Lucas S. Maia, Pedro Donadio, Magdalena Fuentes, Martín Rocamora, Luiz W.P. Biscainho, Mauricio V. M. Da Costa, Sara Cohen

AES Latin American Conference

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)

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)

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)