Category: Reading Group

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: Following…

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: Save…

Our next session will be on Tuesdat 14.01.2014, 4:30pm, room AG06 (College Building), inviting you and all others interested to the discussion of the following papers: 1) Velasco, M. J., & Large, E. W. (2011). Pulse Detection in Syncopated Rhythms using Neural Oscillators. In 12th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (pp. 185–190). Abstract:…

Our next session will be on Monday 18.11.2013, 4:30pm, room AG04 (College Building), inviting you and all others interested to the discussion of this year’s ISMIR (14th International Society for Music Information Retrieval) conference, with attendants presenting their 1-2 favourite papers in about 5 minutes each. The program of ISMIR 2013 with all papers can…

The Music Informatics Research Group is organising a 1-hour seminar on group papers that will be presented at the ISMIR 2013 conference. The seminar will take place on Friday 25th October, 3pm, in room AG08 (College building). The following papers will be presented (each 15′ + 5′ for Q&A): Cherla, S., Weyde, T., Garcez, A.,…

Our next session will be on Wednesday 16.10.2013, 4:30pm, room AG05 (College Building), inviting you and all others interested to the discussion of the following paper: F. Weninger, B. Schuller, C. Liem, F. Kurth, and A. Hanjalic, “Music Information Retrieval: An Inspirational Guide to Transfer from Related Disciplines“, In Multimodal Music Processing, M. Müller, M.…

Our next session will be on Wednesday 11.09.2013, 4:30pm, room AG05 (College Building), inviting you and all others interested to the discussion of the following paper: Eric J. Humphrey, Juan P. Bello, Yann LeCun, “Feature learning and deep architectures: new directions for music informatics“, Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, 2013. Abstract: As we look to…

Our next session will be on Wednesday 21.08.2013, 4:30pm, room AG02 (College Building), inviting you and all others interested to the discussion of the following paper: S. Brown and J. Jordania, “Universals in the world’s musics“, Psychology of Music, vol. 41, no. 2, 229-248, March 2013. Abstract: Many decades of skepticism have prevented the field…

Our next session will be on Wednesday 10.07.2013, 4:30pm, room AG02 (College Building), inviting you and all others interested to the discussion of the following paper: A. P. McPherson and Y. E. Kim, “The Problem of the Second Performer: Building a Community Around an Augmented Piano,” Computer Music Journal, Vol. 36, No. 4, pp. 10-27,…

We are meeting up on Wednesday June 12th, at 4:30pm in AG06 for our next MIRG reading group! This session, we will discuss Group-theoretic approaches to indexing and retrieval of music and multimedia databases as in the paper by Michael Clausen , Heiko Körner , Frank Kurth (2003): An Efficient Indexing and Search Technique for…