OpenMIC-2018

Dataset Information
Modalities
Audio
Introduced
2018
License
Homepage

Overview

OpenMIC-2018 is an instrument recognition dataset containing 20,000 examples of Creative Commons-licensed music available on the Free Music Archive. Each example is a 10-second excerpt which has been partially labeled for the presence or absence of 20 instrument classes by annotators on a crowd-sourcing platform.

Source: OpenMIC-2018: An Open Data-set for Multiple Instrument Recognition
Image Source: OpenMIC-2018: An Open Data-set for Multiple Instrument Recognition
Audio Source: https://zenodo.org/record/1432913

Variants: OpenMIC-2018

Associated Benchmarks

This dataset is used in 1 benchmark:

Recent Benchmark Submissions

Task Model Paper Date
Instrument Recognition MATPAC (SSL Model, linear eval) Masked Latent Prediction and Classification … 2025-02-17
Instrument Recognition DyMN-L Dynamic Convolutional Neural Networks as … 2023-10-24
Instrument Recognition EAsT-KD + PaSST Audio Embeddings as Teachers for … 2023-06-30
Instrument Recognition EAsT-Final + PaSST Audio Embeddings as Teachers for … 2023-06-30
Instrument Recognition PaSST Efficient Training of Audio Transformers … 2021-10-11

Research Papers

Recent papers with results on this dataset: