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SpectTrans: Joint Spectral-Temporal Modeling for Polyphonic Piano Transcription via Spectral Gating Networks

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Automatic Music Transcription (AMT) plays a fundamental role in Music Information Retrieval (MIR) by converting raw audio signals into symbolic representations such as MIDI or musical scores. Despite advances in deep learning, accurately transcribing piano performances remains challenging due to dense polyphony, wide dynamic range, sustain pedal effects, and harmonic interactions between simultaneous notes. Existing approaches using convolutional and recurrent architectures, or autoregressive models, often fail to capture long-range temporal dependencies and global harmonic structures, while conventional Vision Transformers overlook the anisotropic characteristics of audio spectrograms, leading to harmonic neglect. In this work, we propose SpectTrans, a novel piano transcription framework that integrates a Spectral Gating Network with a multi-head self-attention Transformer to jointly model spectral and temporal dependencies. Latent CNN features are projected into the frequency domain via a Real Fast Fourier Transform, enabling adaptive filtering of overlapping harmonics and suppression of non-stationary noise, while deeper layers capture long-term melodic and chordal relationships. Experimental evaluation on polyphonic piano datasets demonstrates that this architecture produces acoustically coherent representations, improving the robustness and precision of transcription under complex performance conditions. These results suggest that combining frequency-domain refinement with global temporal modeling provides an effective strategy for high-fidelity AMT.

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