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  • MIRG at CIM 2014 conference

    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…

  • AES UK Talk by Daniel Wolff: “Spot the Odd Song Out: A System for Music Similarity Estimation”

    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/…

  • MIRG at ISMIR 2014 Conference

    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…

  • Cutting Edge Research event, 14th Oct 2014, 6:30pm

    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…

  • Latest conference presentations

    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…

  • Seminar by Polina Proutskova, Wed 24/09/2014, 12:00

    On Wednesday 24/09/2014, at 12:00, Polina Proutskova (Goldsmiths, University of London) will give a talk entitled “Modelling vocal production in the world’s music cultures”. The seminar will take place in room AG04 (College Building) of City University London. Title: Modelling vocal production in the world’s music cultures Abstract: In order to apply computational approaches to…

  • MIRG Papers at Digital Libraries for Musicology workshop (DLfM 2014)

    The Music Informatics Research Group will present its current research at the 1st International Digital Libraries for Musicology workshop (DLfM 2014), which will take place on 12th September 2014 at City University London. The list of oral presentations from MIRG is as follows: Tillman Weyde, Stephen Cottrell, Jason Dykes, Emmanouil Benetos, Daniel Wolff, Dan Tidhar,…

  • Seminar by Florian Jouffreau, Wed 20th Aug, AG06, 4:30pm

    On Wednesday 20/8/2014, at 4:30pm, Florian Jouffreau (Polytech Paris UPMC, visiting MIRG) will give a talk entitled “Particle Swarm Optimization on HPC applied to Music Similarity”. The seminar will take place in room AG06 (College Building) of City University London. Title: Particle Swarm Optimization on HPC applied to Music Similarity Abstract: This talk will summarize…

  • Seminar by Dr Andre Holzapfel, Mon 7/7/2014, 1pm

    On Monday 7/7/2014, at 1pm, Dr Andre Holzapfel (Boğaziçi University, Istanbul) will give a talk entitled “Tracking the odd: meter inference in musical audio using particle filters”. The seminar will take place in room AG03 (College Building) of City University London. Title: Tracking the odd: meter inference in musical audio using particle filters Abstract: In the…

  • MIRG Presentations at Statistical Musicology Session of ECDA 2014

    The Music Informatics Research Group will present its current research at the European Conference on Data Analysis (ECDA 2014), in particular at the “Statistical Musicology” session organised as part of the conference. ECDA will take place on 2-4 July 2014 in Bremen, Germany. The list of presentations from MIRG is as follows: Dan Tidhar, Srikanth…