[PRE REVIEW]: Omnizart: A General Toolbox for Automatic Music Transcription

[whedon]

Submitting author: @BreezeWhite (Yu Te Wu) Repository: https://github.com/Music-and-Culture-Technology-Lab/omnizart Version: v0.4.1 Editor: @faroit Reviewers: @hagenw, @keunwoochoi Managing EiC: Arfon Smith

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Reference check summary (note 'MISSING' DOIs are suggestions that need verification):

OK DOIs

- None

MISSING DOIs

- 10.1109/taslp.2020.3030482 may be a valid DOI for title: Multi-Instrument Automatic Music Transcription With Self-Attention-Based Instance Segmentation
- 10.1007/978-3-030-01234-2_49 may be a valid DOI for title: Encoder-Decoder with Atrous Separable Convolution for Semantic Image Segmentation
- 10.1109/taslp.2015.2442411 may be a valid DOI for title: Combining Spectral and Temporal Representations for Multipitch Estimation of Polyphonic Music
- 10.1109/icassp.2018.8462079 may be a valid DOI for title: Automatic Music Transcription Leveraging Generalized Cepstral Features and Deep Learning
- 10.1109/icassp.2018.8462420 may be a valid DOI for title: Vocal Melody Extraction Using Patch-Based CNN
- 10.1109/access.2019.2960566 may be a valid DOI for title: Shakedrop regularization for deep residual learning
- 10.1109/tpami.2018.2858821 may be a valid DOI for title: Virtual adversarial training: a regularization method for supervised and semi-supervised learning
- 10.1109/tasl.2009.2026503 may be a valid DOI for title: On the improvement of singing voice separation for monaural recordings using the MIR-1K dataset
- 10.1109/icassp.2018.8461686 may be a valid DOI for title: Invariances and Data Augmentation for Supervised Music Transcription
- 10.25080/majora-7b98e3ed-003 may be a valid DOI for title: librosa: Audio and music signal analysis in python

INVALID DOIs

- None

[Kevin-Mattheus-Moerman]

@BreezeWhite thanks for this submission. Our editors in this domain are currently not able to take on this submission. I have therefore added the "waitlisted" label, which means one of our editors will pick up this work once they become available. Thanks for your patience.

In the mean time please consider these comments:

• [x] Please rename/rephrase the purpose section to be the required Statement of need section.
• [x] Consider more clearly describing the direct scientific research application in the statement of need section
• [x] We recommend that you shorten the paper where possible, as our guidelines state "between 250-1000 words".

[Kevin-Mattheus-Moerman]

Perhaps @bmcfee or @terrytangyuan could take this submission once they are available.

[BreezeWhite]

@Kevin-Mattheus-Moerman Thank you for your mention! And also thanks for the quick advice on our submission.

We are currently modifying the content according to your suggestion. As for the third point, the word count we see on the editor shows there are total 1000 words, just fit in the upper limit. Would that still be a problem? If so, we will try continue to shorten the paper.

[Kevin-Mattheus-Moerman]

@BreezeWhite if you are at the 1000 word limit that could be fine. As long as you are not repeating content from the documentation. Thanks. FYI you can update the paper whenever you like here by calling: @whedon generate pdf

[arfon]

@whedon invite @faroit as editor

:wave: @faroit - this looks like it could be perfect for you as a first paper?

[whedon]

@faroit has been invited to edit this submission.

[faroit]

@whedon assign me as editor

[whedon]

OK, the editor is @faroit

[faroit]

👋 Hi @BreezeWhite, thanks for your submission to JOSS! I will be serving as the editor for this. We'll use this issue to identify reviewers and resolve technical issues.

As this toolbox implements a bunch of transcription models, it would be great to have reviewers with domain knowledge who also have experience with frameworks used in the MIR community... I have a few potential reviewers in mind:

• @ superbock: author of madmom
• @ adarob: magenta core dev
• @ keunwoochoi: author of DrummerNet

@BreezeWhite, I am also interested in your input on potential reviewers, so any suggestions you have are also welcome. For this, please check the JOSS COI policy and only mention them with a space between the @ and their handle (so you would refer to me as "@ faroit").

[faroit]

@BreezeWhite while we find potential reviewers, can you please address https://github.com/openjournals/joss-reviews/issues/3218#issuecomment-828230199 and add the missing DOIs as indicated by the reference check summary?

[BreezeWhite]

@whedon generate pdf

[whedon]

:point_right::page_facing_up: Download article proof :page_facing_up: View article proof on GitHub :page_facing_up: :point_left:

[BreezeWhite]

Hi @faroit, thank you for the suggestions.

For the DOI issue, I've just updated the missing DOIs in the paper.bib, you could check if there are still missing things. And for the reviewers, I would like to mention @ bmfcc for joining the review process. And also thank you for mentioning the above members that would be a huge help for reviewing the paper.

[BreezeWhite]

@whedon check references

[BreezeWhite]

@whedon set v0.4.1 as version

[whedon]

I'm sorry @BreezeWhite, I'm afraid I can't do that. That's something only editors are allowed to do.

[whedon]

Reference check summary (note 'MISSING' DOIs are suggestions that need verification):

OK DOIs

- 10.1109/taslp.2020.3030482 is OK
- 10.1007/978-3-030-01234-2_49 is OK
- 10.1109/taslp.2015.2442411 is OK
- 10.1109/icassp.2018.8462079 is OK
- 10.1109/icassp.2018.8462420 is OK
- 10.1109/access.2019.2960566 is OK
- 10.1109/tpami.2018.2858821 is OK
- 10.1109/tasl.2009.2026503 is OK
- 10.1109/icassp.2018.8461686 is OK
- 10.25080/majora-7b98e3ed-003 is OK

MISSING DOIs

- 10.1109/icassp39728.2021.9414409 may be a valid DOI for title: Improving automatic drum transcription using large-scale audio-to-midi aligned data

INVALID DOIs

- None

[Kevin-Mattheus-Moerman]

@whedon set v0.4.1 as version

[whedon]

OK. v0.4.1 is the version.

[faroit]

@BreezeWhite

And for the reviewers, I would like to mention @ bmfcc for joining the review process. And also thank you for mentioning the above members that would be a huge help for reviewing the paper.

by @ bmfcc ... were you referring to @ bmcfee ? In that case, I'm afraid that he is to busy and is not available for a review as he also serves as an topic editor at JOSS.

[faroit]

@superbock @keunwoochoi @adarob @jesseengel @hagenw - would any of you be willing to review this submission for JOSS? The JOSS review process takes place on GitHub and focuses on the software and a short paper. We carry out our checklist-driven reviews here in GitHub issues and follow these guidelines: https://joss.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reviewer_guidelines.html

The software under review is Omnizart: A General Toolbox for Automatic Music Transcription.

This issue is a "pre-review" issue in which reviewers are assigned. Once sufficient reviewers are recruited we will open a dedicated review issue where the review will take place.

[superbock]

@faroit, thanks for considering me! Unfortunately, I am too busy to properly review the paper before the end of the summer (which I guess is too late).

[keunwoochoi]

Hi @faroit, thanks for this! I can do it.

[hagenw]

Thanks for asking, but I guess you have enough reviewers now?

[faroit]

@hagenw for now, only @keunwoochoi accepted the invitation. I would be very happy if you could review the submission :-)

[faroit]

@whedon assign @keunwoochoi as reviewer

[whedon]

OK, @keunwoochoi is now a reviewer

[hagenw]

OK, great, I would then also agree to review.

[faroit]

@whedon assign @hagenw as reviewer

[whedon]

OK, @hagenw is now a reviewer

[faroit]

@whedon add @keunwoochoi as reviewer

[whedon]

OK, @keunwoochoi is now a reviewer

[faroit]

@whedon list reviewers

[faroit]

@whedon check references

[faroit]

@whedon check repository

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Reference check summary (note 'MISSING' DOIs are suggestions that need verification):

OK DOIs

- 10.1109/taslp.2020.3030482 is OK
- 10.1007/978-3-030-01234-2_49 is OK
- 10.1109/taslp.2015.2442411 is OK
- 10.1109/icassp39728.2021.9414409 is OK
- 10.1109/icassp.2018.8462079 is OK
- 10.1109/icassp.2018.8462420 is OK
- 10.1109/access.2019.2960566 is OK
- 10.1109/tpami.2018.2858821 is OK
- 10.1109/tasl.2009.2026503 is OK
- 10.1109/icassp.2018.8461686 is OK
- 10.25080/majora-7b98e3ed-003 is OK

MISSING DOIs

- None

INVALID DOIs

- None

[faroit]

@Kevin-Mattheus-Moerman Is there anything left in the comments you made in https://github.com/openjournals/joss-reviews/issues/3218#issuecomment-828230199 that should be addressed by @BreezeWhite before we proceed with the review process?

[Kevin-Mattheus-Moerman]

@whedon generate pdf

[whedon]

:point_right::page_facing_up: Download article proof :page_facing_up: View article proof on GitHub :page_facing_up: :point_left:

[Kevin-Mattheus-Moerman]

@faroit thanks for letting me check this before moving on. Yes I ticked those boxes.

I have one more minor comment/recommendation below.

I recommend that the following sentence is rephrased: We believe the release of Omnizart can accelerate the advance of AMT research and contribute to the MIR community..

I have 2 issues with this sentence.

1. I would avoid statements like "We" or "I" in these papers. Furthermore, the statement We believe.., makes it feel like "only a belief", i.e. that there isn't necessarily clear/good evidence to support it. Could the authors rephrase the sentence, if they have confidence in their claims, such that it sounds more firmly grounded in evidence?
2. The statement ..contribute to the MIR community. sounds vague, it is unclear what it contributes. Perhaps rephrase.

I'm not saying the following is the best possible sentence (give this some thought and formulate something yourself) but the following would be an example to avoid the above issues (perhaps summarize something in place of those dots): Omnizart is an important tool for the MIR community, since it can accelerate and advance AMT research by.....

@faroit I'll leave you to follow up with this if that is okay, and if you agree.

[BreezeWhite]

Hi @Kevin-Mattheus-Moerman, thank you for the advises. I have rephrased the sentences as you have pointed out. Please see if there are still needs to modify the content.

[faroit]

Hi @Kevin-Mattheus-Moerman, thank you for the advises. I have rephrased the sentences as you have pointed out. Please see if there are still needs to modify the content.

@Kevin-Mattheus-Moerman thanks for your suggestions, @BreezeWhite has addressed your comment.

[faroit]

@whedon generate pdf

[faroit]

@whedon check repository