On Tuesday 24/06/2014, at 12:30, Prof Juan Pablo Bello (New York University, USA) will give a seminar on “Designing and Learning Features for Music Information Retrieval”. The seminar will take place in room A220 (College Building). Title: Designing and Learning Features for Music Information Retrieval Abstract: This talk discusses a mix of concepts, problems and techniques...
Read more →On Tuesday 20/05/2014, at 4pm, Dr François Rigaud (Télécom ParisTech, France) will give a seminar on “Models of music signals informed by the physics of instruments”. The seminar will take place in room AG03 (College Building). Title: Models of music signals informed by the physics of instruments: Application to piano music analysis by Non-negative...
Read more →The Music Informatics Research Group is pleased to announce the recent success of a grant application to the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) for the project entitled: An Integrated Audio-Symbolic Model of Music Similarity. The 11-month, £77k project is funded through the Amplification Awards of the Digital Transformations in the Arts and Humanities...
Read more →On Friday 21/03/2014, at 10:30am, Prof Gerald Schuller (University of Ilmenau, Germany) will give a seminar on “Parametric Audio Coding”. The seminar will take place in room AG06 (College Building). Title: Parametric Audio Coding Abstract: This presentation introduces a novel algorithm for parametric audio coding of isolated electric guitar recordings. Only the output signal...
Read more →This March, City University is looking forward to host the first workshop of the DML project, a collaboration of City University London, Queen Mary University of London, University College London, and the British Library towards enabling music research on large datasets: Digital Music Lab 1st Workshop on Analysing Big Music Data 19 March 2014,...
Read more →Our next session will be on Wednesday 26.02.2014, 4:30pm, room AG01 (College Building), inviting you and all others interested to a talk by Dr Dan Tidhar, Research Fellow at MIRG and the Department of Music, currently working in the Digital Music Lab project. Title: Police and beyond – temperament estimation from harpsichord recordings Abstract:...
Read more →The Music Informatics Research Group is pleased to announce the new research project entitled: A deep learning framework for automatic music transcription. The 4-month, £5.7k mini-project is funded through the City University London Research Pump-Priming Fund; project partners include City University London and Queen Mary University of London. For more information on the project...
Read more →Our next session will be on Monday 10/02/2014, 4:30pm, room AG06 (College Building), inviting you and all others interested to the discussion of the recent AES 53rd Conference on Semantic Audio. During the meeting, Daniel and Emmanouil will give an overview of the conference and will present a few selected papers from there. PS:...
Read more →At the awards ceremony for the AES 53rd Conference on Semantic Audio, the paper by Son Tran, Daniel Wolff, Tillman Weyde, and Artur Garcez entitled “Feature preprocessing using RBMs for music similarity learning” won the prize for Fully-Reproducible Work, as part of the Prizes for Reproducibility in Semantic Audio Research, sponsored by the EPSRC-funded...
Read more →The Music Informatics Research Group will present its current research at the AES 53rd Conference on Semantic Audio, which will take place on 26-29th January 2014 in London. The list of oral/poster presentations from MIRG is as follows (click on links for abstracts): Wolff, D., Bellec, G., Friberg, A., MacFarlane, A., and Weyde, T....
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