---
license: mit
task_categories:
- audio-classification
language:
- ja
- en
tags:
- music
pretty_name: NeuroPiano
size_categories:
- 1K<n<10K
---
# Dataset Card for NeuroPiano-data

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This dataset contains 2255 entries of audio-question-answer pairs that specializes in music education. Questions ranges from cleaness of attack to hands balancing, each one come with verbal response as well as a rating within 6. There are 104 unique student recordings of piano excercises and part of them are rated by multiple teachers.

## Dataset Details

### Dataset Description

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- **Curated by:** Hayato Nishioka, Vincent Cheung, Huan Zhang, Shinichi Furuya
- **Funded by [optional]:** Japan Science and Technology Agency CREST grant [number JPMJCR20D4]
- **Shared by [optional]:** Huan Zhang
- **Language(s) :** Japanese, English
- **License:** MIT License

### Dataset Sources [optional]

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- **Repository:** [Coming Soon]
- **Paper:** [Coming Soon]

## Uses

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This is a great resource in analyzing performance and piano education. 


## Dataset Structure

Each entry contains:
- audio_path:
  - array: loaded audio in 48000
- piece: name of the excercise. pdf score of the excercises is attached in repo.
- subject: the id of rater
- question: The question in Japanese
- answer: The answer in Japanese
- q_eng:  The question in English
- a_eng: The answer in English
- score: numerical score that rates the question, in a scale of 6.


## Dataset Creation

#### Who are the source data producers?

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The pianists and raters in this dataset are student and teachers from the NeuroPiano Academy (https://www.neuropiano.org/). 

#### Personal and Sensitive Information

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There should no be any sensitive or personal information, as the identities are all anonimized in the dataset. 


## Citation 

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**BibTeX:**

```
@inproceedings{Zhang2024HowDataset,
author = {Zhang, Huan and Cheung, Vincent and Nishioka, Hayato and Dixon, Simon and Furuya, Shinichi},
booktitle = {International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) Late Breaking Demo (LBD)},
title = {How does the teacher rate? Observations from the NeuroPiano dataset},
year = {2024}
}
```


## Dataset Card Contact

huan.zhang@qmul.ac.uk