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+license: mit
+language:
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+library_name: peft
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+# Master Thesis: High-Fidelity Video Background Music Generation using Transformers
+This is the corresponding GitLab Repository of my Master Thesis. The goal this thisis is to generate video background 
+music by the adaptation of MusicGen (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.05284.pdf) to video input as another input modality.
+This should be accomplished by mapping video information into the T5 text embedding space on which MusicGen usually
+works on. To this end, a Transformer Encoder network to accomplish this task, called Video Encoder. Two options are 
+foreseen within the training loop for the Video Encoder: 
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+- freezing the weights within the MusicGen Audio Decoder
+- adjusting the weights of the MusicGen Audio Decoder with Parameter Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) using LoRA (https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.09685)
+
+
+# Installation
+- create a Python virtual environment with `Python 3.11`
+- check https://pytorch.org/get-started/previous-versions/ to install `PyTorch 2.1.0` with `CUDA` on your machine
+- install the local fork of audiocraft: `cd audiocraft; pip install -e .`
+- install the other requirements: `pip install -r requirements.txt`
+
+
+# Folder Structure
+- `audiocraft` contains a local fork of the audiocraft library (https://github.com/facebookresearch/audiocraft) with 
+little changes to the generation method, further information can be seen in `code/code_adaptations_audiocraft`.
+- `code` contains the code for model `training` and `inference` of video background music
+- `datasets` contains the code to create the datasets used for training within `data_preparation` and video examples 
+used for the evaluation in `example_videos` 
+- `evaluation` contains the code used to evaluate the datasets and created video embeddings
+- `gradio_app` contains the code for interface to generate video background music
+
+# Training
+To train the models set the training parameters under `training/training_conf.yml` and start training with 
+`python training/training.py`. The models weights will be stored under `training/models_audiocraft` or 
+`training/models_peft` respectively.
+
+# Inference
+- start the user interface by running `python gradio_app/app.py`
+- inside the interface select a video, parameters
+- click on "submit" to start the generation
+
+# Contact
+For any questions contact me at [niklas.schulte@rwth-aachen.de](mailto:niklas.schulte@rwth-aachen.de)