| 2026 | SIGIR | Sparse Contrastive Learning for Content-Based Cold Item Recommendation. | Gregor Meehan, Johan Pauwels |
| 2025 | CBMI | Predicting Moral Values in Lyrics Through Audio. | Charalampos Saitis, Ben Heyderman, Vjosa Preniqi, Kyriaki Kalimeri, Johan Pauwels |
| 2025 | ICASSP | Evaluating Contrastive Methodologies for Music Representation Learning Using Playlist Data. | Gregor Meehan, Johan Pauwels |
| 2025 | ICASSP | Learning Music Audio Representations With Limited Data. | Christos Plachouras, Emmanouil Benetos, Johan Pauwels |
| 2025 | IJCNN | Position Paper: Towards a Unified Representation Evaluation Framework Beyond Downstream Tasks. | Christos Plachouras, Julien Guinot, Gyrgy Fazekas, Elio Quinton, Emmanouil Benetos, Johan Pauwels |
| 2025 | RecSys | On Inherited Popularity Bias in Cold-Start Item Recommendation. | Gregor Meehan, Johan Pauwels |
| 2025 | TIME | Temporal Considerations in DJ Mix Information Retrieval and Generation (Short Paper). | Alexander J. Williams, Gregor Meehan, Stefan Lattner, Johan Pauwels, Mathieu Barthet |
| 2023 | ICASSP | On the Relevance of the Differences Between HRTF Measurement Setups for Machine Learning. | Johan Pauwels, Lorenzo Picinali |
| 2019 | IUI | A Web-Based System For Suggesting New Practice Material To Music Learners Based On Chord Content. | Johan Pauwels, Mark B. Sandler |
| 2017 | ICASSP | Improved template based chord recognition using the CRP feature. | Ken O'Hanlon, Sebastian Ewert, Johan Pauwels, Mark B. Sandler |
| 2013 | ICASSP | Evaluating automatically estimated chord sequences. | Johan Pauwels, Geoffroy Peeters |
| 2011 | ICMLA | The Influence of Chord Duration Modeling on Chord and Local Key Extraction. | Johan Pauwels, Jean-Pierre Martens, Marc Leman |