Publications

• Investigating Modality Contribution in Audio LLMs for Music
  Giovana Morais, Magdalena Fuentes
  International Conference on Audio, Acoustic and Speech (ICASSP) · 2026
  [code] [pdf] [demo]
• Learning from Silence and Noise for Visual Sound Source Localization
  Xavier Juanola, Giovana Morais, Gloria Haro, Magdalena Fuentes
  British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC) · 2025
  [code] [pdf] [demo]
• Skip That Beat: Augmenting Meter Tracking Models for Underrepresented Time Signatures
  Giovana Morais, Brian McFee, Magdalena Fuentes
  Latin American Music Information Retrieval Workshop (LAMIR) · 2024
  [code] [pdf] [demo]
• Tempo vs pitch: understanding self-supervised tempo estimation
  Giovana Morais, Matthew E.P. Davies, Marcelo Queiroz, Magdalena Fuentes
  International Conference on Audio, Acoustic and Speech (ICASSP) · 2023
  [code] [pdf]

Under Review

• TRACE: Trustworthy Reasoning from Acoustic Cues and Evidence
  Giovana Morais, Yujin Kim, Mehmet Atilay Kucukoglu, Magdalena Fuentes
  AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) · 2027
  
• MixCards: Evaluating Structured Descriptions of Multi-Source Sound Scenes
  Sripathi Sridhar, Yujin Kim, Giovana Morais, Liang-Yuan Wu, Mehmet Atilay Kucukoglu, Prem Seetharaman, Lloyd May, Mark Cartwright, Magdalena Fuentes Magdalena Fuentes, Mark Carthwright
  International Conference Learning Representations (ICLR) · 2027
  
• FoleyForge: Free-form, Controllable, Rectified-flow Editing of Sound Effects
  Giovana Morais, Hugo Flores García, Prem Seetharaman, Johanes Imort, Justin Salamon, Magdalena Fuentes, Oriol Nieto
  International Conference on Audio, Acoustic and Speech (ICASSP) · 2027
  [demo]

White Papers

• Visual Sound Source Localization: Assessing Performance with Both Positive and Negative Audio
  Xavier Juanola, Giovana Morais, Gloria Haro, Magdalena Fuentes
  Sight and Sound, CVPR · 2025
  [pdf]
• Skip That Beat: Augmenting Meter Tracking Models for Underrepresented Time Signatures
  Giovana Morais, Brian McFee, Magdalena Fuentes
  ISMIR - Late Breaking Demo · 2024
  [code] [pdf] [demo]
• Music Source Separation of Brazilian Percussion
  Richa Namballa, Giovana Morais, Magdalena Fuentes
  ISMIR - Late Breaking Demo · 2024
  [pdf] [demo]