
Drew Edwards
Founding Engineer at Happenstance | PhD candidate in AI & Music
Summary
Work
Education
Projects
Writing
A Data-Driven Analysis of Robust Automatic Piano Transcription
February 1, 2024Analysis of robustness and overfitting in piano transcription systems; introduces a re‑performed MAESTRO dataset and evaluates data augmentation approaches to improve out-of-distribution performance; includes a brief state-of-the-art (SOTA) evaluation on the MAPS piano transcription dataset.
High Resolution Guitar Transcription via Domain Adaptation (ICASSP 2024)
January 1, 2024Paper on domain adaptation methods for high-resolution guitar transcription (co-authored with QMUL collaborators, including Riley et al.), contributing to state-of-the-art guitar transcription results.
MIDI-to-Tab: Guitar Tablature Inference via Masked Language Modeling
January 1, 2024Research on converting audio/MIDI to guitar tablature using masked language models; part of broader transcription and symbolic modelling work.
PiJAMA: Piano Jazz with Automatic MIDI Annotations
September 1, 2023Introduces PiJAMA, a large dataset of jazz piano performances with automatic MIDI annotations; includes dataset analysis and benchmark experiments for performer identification and generative modeling.
Patents / applied computer vision inventions (co-inventor listings)
Co-inventor on patents related to object/identity recognition and cross-source image object identification from work in applied ML/computer vision contexts (listed on Google Scholar/patent summaries).
Hobbies
Piano performance, music listening and music informatics (avid student of music and the piano). almostimplemented+1
Mathematics and quantitative problem-solving (background includes honors calculus TA work). almostimplemented
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