Neural gonna give you up – FIU Students place 1st at UHack 2017

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UHack is a 24-hour hackathon hosted by the University of Miami.

Florida International University students Mark Fajet, Sheila Alemany, and  Jonathan Beltran developed a recurrent neural network that accepts a song and will create sounds like Rick Astley’s  “Never Gonna Give You Up”.

“We processed midi files before sending them through a recurrent neural network developed using keras and tensorflow.” – Devpost

Challenges we ran to:

Understanding how midi files are used to represent music. This was difficult, but necessary to interpret the files.

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