City University MIRG

Category: Reading Group

  • MIRG & Alpha won the OMG Empathy Prediction Challenge

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    In a join effort, Eric Guizzo and Tillman Weyde of MIRG and Francesco Barbieri, Giovanni Maffei, Frederico Luchesi and Fermin Moscoso del Prado Martin have developed a multi-modal emotion recognition system that won the OMG Empathy Challenge. See here and here for more information.  

  • 2 Papers @ NeurIPS 2018 workshops

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    Tillman & Radha went to Montreal to attend NeurIPS 2018 and presented a Poster in the Relational Learning Workshop. Tillman also presented a Poster with Dan Philps and Artur Garcez in the Workshop on Financial Services and AI. NeurIPS had 8000 registered participants, a truly special experience.

  • MIRG reunion @ ISMIR 2018

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    Current and previous members of MIRG met at ISMIR 2018, presenting several papers. Former MIRG members are now working for Jukedeck, Spotify and Tido.   From left to right: Shahar, Andreas (Spotify), Srikanth (Jukedeck), Daniel (Tido, City UoL), Reinier (Jukedeck), Tillman, Radha (City).

  • ISMIR 2017 Best Poster Award

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    A belated note that our poster on “Singing Voice Separation with a Deep U-Net Convolutional Network” was selected for the Best Poster Award. Congrats to Andreas Jansson for the main work for designing a great poster (and for sticking an iPad on it for the demo).

  • Digital Musicology Workshop @ Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School (DHOxSS)

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    The Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School (DHOxSS) is an annual Digital Humanities training event. DHOxSS delegates are introduced to a range of topics suitable for researchers, project managers, research assistants, and students who are interested in the creation, management, analysis, modelling, visualization, or publication of digital data for the humanities. Tillman Weyde, PI of…

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

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    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…

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

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    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 Prof Juan Pablo Bello, Tue 24/06/2014, 12.30

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    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 at…

  • Seminar by Dr François Rigaud, Tue 20/05/2014, 4pm

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    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 Matrix…

  • Seminar by Prof Gerald Schuller, Fri 21/3/2014, 10:30am

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    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 of…