Author: Emmanouil

ASyMMuS Workshop on Audio-Symbolic Music Similarity Modelling 8 July 2015, 10:00 – 15:30 Foyle Suite, Centre for Conservation British Library The AHRC funded project on An Integrated Audio-Symbolic Model of Music Similarity (ASyMMuS) aims to integrate aspects of audio and symbolic representations, such as scores or MIDI data, in a joint model. By building on…

The Music Informatics group, as part of its AHRC-funded DML project, is co-organising the workshop: Digital Music Lab Final Workshop on Analysing Big Music Data 13 March 2015, 10:00 – 16:30 Foyle Suite, Centre for Conservation British Library The final workshop of the DML project will take place at the British Library on 13 March…

The Music Informatics Research Group is pleased to announce the new research project entitled: Automatic segmentation of audio recordings to speech and music. The 2-month, £5.9k mini-project is funded through the City University London Research Pump-Priming Fund; its aim is to improve state-of-the-art automatic speech-music segmentation technology and its applicability to the British Library’s World and…

City’s Department of Computer Science has played a prominent role in the 2014 Royal Institution (RI) Christmas Lectures, which were presented by Professor Danielle George, with the theme, ‘Sparks Will Fly’. The RI Christmas Lecture Series, regarded as an annual highlight for a science event addressed to young people, is a series of talks on a…

The Music Informatics Research Group will present its current research at the annual Digital Music Research Network Workshop 2014 (DMRN+9), taking place on Tuesday 16th December 2014 at Queen Mary University of London. The following MIRG work will be presented at the workshop: “The ASyMMuS project: An integrated audio-symbolic model of music similarity”, Emmanouil Benetos,…

The Music Informatics Research Group will present its current research at the 9th Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology (CIM 2014). CIM will take place on 4-6 December in Berlin, Germany. The list of presentations from MIRG is as follows (click titles to download abstracts): Mathieu Barthet, Mark Plumbley, Alexander Kachkaev, Jason Dykes, Daniel Wolff and Tillman…

On 10th December 2014, at 6:30pm, Daniel Wolff (research fellow at MIRG) will give a talk at Birmingham City University (room 203) entitled “Spot the Odd Song Out: A System for Music Similarity Estimation”. The seminar is sponsored by the Audio Engineering Society – UK Section. For more details please follow the link below: http://www.aes-uk.org/forthcoming-meetings/spot-the-odd-song-out-a-system-for-music-similarity-estimation/…

The Music Informatics Research Group will present its current research at the 2014 International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, which will take place on 27-31 October in Taipei, Taiwan. The list of papers from MIRG is as follows: Cherla, S., Weyde, T., and d’Avila Garcez, A. (2014). Multiple viewpoint melodic prediction with fixed-context neural…

In collaboration with the Audio Engineering Society (AES), MIRG is hosting the event “Cutting Edge Research – from City University and King’s College London“. Date: 14th Oct 2014 Time: 18:30 Location: Performance Space, City University London College Building, St John Street, EC1V 4PB London Description: This month’s lecture will showcase cutting edge research from City…

It is a busy time of the year for MIRG, with group members simultaneously presenting work at 3 different conferences: Tillman Weyde is giving a presentation on “Melodic Prediction and Polyphonic Structure Analysis” at the Eighth European Music Analysis Conference (EuroMAC 2014). Daniel Wolff is presenting the work “Adapting computational music similarity models to geographic…