Huan Zhang

Publications

Performance Understanding & Generation

Patricia Hu, Huan Zhang, S. Peters, S. Dixon, G. Widmer. Revisiting Expressive Timing in Piano Performance At Scale: A Distant Listening, Multi-Corpus Study. Under review.

Huan Zhang, A. Maezawa, S. Dixon. RenderBox: Expressive Performance Rendering with Text Control. Under review.

Huan Zhang, S. Chowdhurry, J. Liang, S. Dixon, G. Widmer. (2024) DExter: Learning and Controlling Performance Expression with Diffusion Models. Applied Sciences; 14(15):6543.

Huan Zhang, S. Dixon. (2023) Disentangling the Horowitz Factor: Learning Content and Style from Expressive Piano Performance. In proceedings of International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP).

Huan Zhang, J. Tang, S. Rafee, G. Wiggins, G. Fazekas, S. Dixon. (2022) ATEPP: A Dataset of Automatically Transcribed Expressive Piano Performance. In proceedings of 23rd International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR).

Music Education

Huan Zhang, V. K.M. Cheung, H. Nishioka, S. Dixon, S. Furuya. (2025) LLaQo: Towards a query-based coach in expressive performance assessment. In proceedings of International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP).

Huan Zhang, V. K.M. Cheung, H. Nishioka, S. Dixon, S. Furuya. (2024) How does the teacher rate? Observations from the NeuroPiano dataset In Late-Breaking-Demo (LBD) of 25th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR).

A. Morsi, Huan Zhang, A. Maezawa, S. Dixon, X. Serra. (2024) Simulating Piano Performance Mistakes for Music Learning. In proceedings of Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC) (Best Paper Award).

Huan Zhang, Y. Jiang, T. Jiang, P. Hu. (2021) Learn By Referencing: Towards Deep Metric Learning for Singing Assessment. In proceedings of 22nd International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR).

Music Information Retrieval

Huan Zhang, J. Liang, S. Dixon. (2024) From Audio Encoders to Piano Judges: Benchmarking Performance Understanding for Solo Piano. In proceedings of 25th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR).

Huan Zhang, E. Karystinaios, S. Dixon, G. Widmer, C. E. Cancino-Chacón. (2023) Symbolic Music Representations for Classification Tasks: A Systematic Evaluation. In proceedings of 24th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR).

Huan Zhang, R. Zhang, K. Zhang, X. Wang, Z. Wang. (2021) Key and function aware melody triad harmonization based on transformer model. In DLfM / IAML Joint poster session.

S. Dai, Huan Zhang, R. Dannenberg. (2020) Automatic Detection of Hierarchical Structure and Influence of Structure on Melody, Harmony and Rhythm in Popular Music. In Proceedings of the 1st Joint Conference on AI Music Creativity.

Audio and Applications

Huan Zhang, J. Liang, H. Phan, W. Wang, E. Benetos. (2025) From Aesthetics to Human Preferences: Comparative Perspectives of Evaluating Text-to-Music Systems. In proceedings of IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP).

J. Liang, Huan Zhang, H. Liu, Y. Cao, Q. Kong, X. Liu, W. Wang, M. Plumbley, H. Phan, E. Benetos. (2024) WavCraft: Audio Editing and Generation with Large Language Models. In ICLR Workshop LLMAgents.

R. Dannenberg, Huan Zhang, A. Meena, A. Joshi, A. Patel, J. Sastre. (2021) Collaborative Music Creation and Performance with Soundcool Online. In Proceedings of the 6th Web Audio Conference.

Student & Supervision Papers

Jiehui Jia, H. Zhang, J. Liang (2025) Bridging Discrete and Continuous: A Multimodal Strategy for Complex Emotion Detection. In proceedings of 35th IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP).

Huan Zhang. (2021) A Performance Prototype for Soundcool Online. Undergraduate Thesis.