The François Leduc Dataset

UPDATE - a newer version of this dataset is now freely available at https://huggingface.co/datasets/xavriley/FrancoisLeducGuitarDataset. The HF version is recommended for future research projects but this version remains available for reference.

This dataset accompanies the following paper:X. Riley, D. Edwards and S. Dixon, "High Resolution Guitar Transcription Via Domain Adaptation," ICASSP 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Seoul, Korea, Republic of, 2024, pp. 1051-1055, doi: 10.1109/ICASSP48485.2024.10446182.It contains audio-midi pairs for 78 solo guitar recordings and a metadata.csv file describing the splits used in the paper.For copyright reasons this dataset is made available by request only, for use in research projects. We are unable to distribute the original scores but these may be purchased from François Leduc at https://www.francoisleduconlinelibrary.com/ You will need to obtain permission separately from the original copyright holder (François Leduc) to use these in non-research applications.