Towards Learning to Play Piano with Dexterous Hands and Touch.
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Abstract
As Liszt once said '(a virtuoso) must call up scent and blossom, and breathe the breath of life', a virtuoso plays the piano with passion, poetry, and extraordinary technical ability. Hence, piano playing, being a task that is quintessentially human, becomes a hallmark for roboticians and artificial intelligence researchers to pursue. In this paper, we advocate an end-to-end reinforcement learning (RL) paradigm to demonstrate how an agent can learn directly from machine-readable music score to play the piano with touch-augmented dexterous hands on a simulated piano. To achieve the desired tasks, we design useful touch- and audio-based reward functions and a series of tasks. Empirical results show that the RL agent can not only find the correct key position but also deal with the various rhythmic, volume, and fingering requirements. As a result, the agent demonstrates its effectiveness in playing simple pieces that have different musical requirements which show the potential of leveraging reinforcement learning approach for the piano playing tasks.
Details
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Kyoto, Japan |
| Pages | 10410-10416 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| ISBN (electronic) | 9781665479271 |
| Publication status | Published - 2022 |
| Peer-reviewed | Yes |
External IDs
| Scopus | 85146332550 |
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| ORCID | /0000-0001-9430-8433/work/146646294 |