Music and Audio Processing
Music and Audio Processing is a research topic within Signal Processing. Science Explorer counts 37k research works in it since 1950. 17.4% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.
This cluster of papers focuses on the classification and analysis of audio signals, including music genre classification, environmental sound recognition, melody extraction, and acoustic scene classification. It explores techniques such as deep learning, convolutional neural networks, and feature extraction for music information retrieval.
- Audio Signal Classification
- Music Information Retrieval
- Deep Learning
- Convolutional Neural Networks
- Feature Extraction
- Environmental Sound Recognition
- Music Genre Classification
- Melody Extraction
- Acoustic Scene Classification
- Audio Event Detection
- Research works
- 37k fractional, since 1950
- In the world top 10%
- 6.4k per year above
- Top-10% rate
- 17.4% share of its works in the world top 10%
- Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
- +35% the tick is no change
Which countries lead Music and Audio Processing research?
By volume, China and India publish the most (2.2k and 1.1k works in 2022–2025).
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 China 2.2k works
- 2 India 1.1k works
- 3 United States 1k works
- 4 Japan 414 works
- 5 United Kingdom 340 works
- 6 South Korea 262 works
- 7 Germany 257 works
- 8 France 228 works
- 9 Italy 186 works
- 10 Canada 161 works
How concentrated that is
The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
Which institutions lead Music and Audio Processing research?
By volume in 2022–2025, Medical Library Association publishes the most Music and Audio Processing research, followed by Shanghai Jiao Tong University and University of Science and Technology of China.
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 Medical Library Association United States 67 works
- 2 Shanghai Jiao Tong University China 49 works
- 3 University of Science and Technology of China China 47 works
- 4 Tsinghua University China 44 works
- 5 Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham India 41 works
- 6 Zhejiang University China 38 works
- 7 Queen Mary University of London United Kingdom 37 works
- 8 Vellore Institute of Technology University India 33 works
- 9 Northwestern Polytechnical University China 33 works
- 10 Carnegie Mellon University United States 31 works
Who are the leading researchers in Music and Audio Processing?
The most-cited researchers publishing on Music and Audio Processing include Andrew Zisserman, Geoffrey E. Hinton and Yoshua Bengio.
- 1 Andrew Zisserman 25k citations
- 2 Geoffrey E. Hinton 22k citations
- 3 Yoshua Bengio 17k citations
- 4 Wei Liu 9.7k citations
- 5 Luc Van Gool 8.5k citations
- 6 Thomas S. Huang 7.4k citations
- 7 Trevor Darrell 6.7k citations
Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.
Where is Music and Audio Processing research done?
The largest centres of Music and Audio Processing research in 2022–2025 are Beijing (China), Tokyo (Japan), Shanghai (China) and Seoul (South Korea). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Guildford.
Largest cities, 2022–2025
Where it is the local speciality
- GuildfordGB · 22.7 works9.5×
Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Music and Audio Processing than the world average.
Where is the best place to study Music and Audio Processing?
Among universities, judged by research, University of Surrey, Carnegie Mellon University and Queen Mary University of London score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.
One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.
| # | University | Score | Top 10% | Specialisation | Works | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of Surrey United Kingdom | 81.1 | 29.6% | 11.0× | 23 | +297.3% |
| 2 | Carnegie Mellon University United States | 67.2 | 29.3% | 9.4× | 31 | +8.8% |
| 3 | Queen Mary University of London United Kingdom | 65.4 | 16.7% | 11.2× | 36 | +50.8% |
| 4 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University China | 61.3 | 25.3% | 2.8× | 49 | +253.0% |
| 5 | Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham India | 61.0 | 9.8% | 9.3× | 41 | +164.3% |
| 6 | The University of Texas at Dallas United States | 59.8 | 26.1% | 9.6× | 16 | +30.3% |
| 7 | Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology South Korea | 59.0 | 25.7% | 7.6× | 29 | +12.4% |
| 8 | Nanyang Technological University Singapore | 58.5 | 35.1% | 3.8× | 25 | -20.9% |
| 9 | University of Science and Technology of China China | 58.3 | 25.7% | 4.8× | 47 | +62.5% |
| 10 | Johannes Kepler University of Linz Austria | 57.8 | 25.4% | 8.8× | 12 | +60.6% |
Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.
Is Music and Audio Processing research growing?
Output in 2018–2022 was 35% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2023. The fastest-growing topics are Music and Audio Processing.
The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.
Which topics inside it are moving
Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.