BEHM-GAN: Bandwidth Extension of Historical Music using Generative Adversarial Networks

Eloi Moliner and Vesa Välimäki

Companion page for a journal article submitted to IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing

The article can be accessed here.

Abstract

Listening test examples

Lowpass filtered piano recordings

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Real historical piano recordings

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Audio Restoration Examples

Piano

Title ID Performer Composer Year
ETUDE IN C-MOLL (Revolutions-Etude) Electrola (D.A. 1047) Jan Paderewski Chopin 1928

Title ID Performer Composer Year
HUNGARIAN RHAPSODY, No. 8 His Master's Voice (B 2667) Mark Hambourg Liszt 1927

Strings

Title ID Performer Composer Year
Evening Song (Chant du Soir) Victor (19854-B) Victor String Ensemble Schumann 1925

Title ID Performer Composer Year
Humoresque His Master's Voice (B 2394) Venetian Trio Dvorak 1913

Orchestra

Title ID Performer Composer Year
1st Movement-Allegro moderato His Master's Voice (D 1779) Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra Schubert 1927

Title ID Performer Composer Year
Blue Danube His Master's Voice (D 1218) Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra Strauss 1927