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Academic Staff & Fellows

Prof Mark Plumbley	Director
Prof Mark Sandler	Chief Scientist
Prof Elaine Chew	Professor
Prof Pat Healey	Professor
Prof Geraint Wiggins	Professor
Dr Joshua D Reiss	Senior Lecturer
Dr Nick Bryan-Kinns	Senior Lecturer
Dr Tony Stockman	Lecturer
Dr Simon Dixon	Lecturer
Dr Anssi Klapuri	Lecturer
Dr Andrew McPherson	Lecturer
Dr Marcus Pearce	Lecturer
Dr Matt Purver	Lecturer
Dr Andrew Robertson	RAEng/EPSRC Research Fellow
Simon Davidmann	Visiting Professor
Peter Langley	Visiting Professorial Fellow
Martyn Ware	Visiting Professorial Fellow
Prof Laurent Daudet	Visiting Senior Lecturer

Research Manager

Dr Panos Kudumakis

Music Rights Management & Standardisation

Research Staff

Dr Samer Abdallah	Techniques and Algorithms for Understanding the Information Dynamics of Music
Dr Mathieu Barthet
Chris Cannam	Sustainable Software for Audio and Music Research
Dr Ivan Damnjanovic	Sustainable Management of Digital Music Research Data
Dr Marco Fabiani	Sustainable Management of Digital Music Research Data
Luís Figueira	Sustainable Software for Audio and Music Research
Dr Maria Jafari	SMALL: Sparse Models, Algorithms, and Learning for Large-scale data
Christian Landone	3D Sound System Performance
Dr Boris Mailhé	Machine Listening using Sparse Representations
Dr Dan Stowell	Real-Time Analysis of Voice for Musical Applications
Dr Wen Xue	OMRAS2: A Distributed Research Environment for Music Informatics and Computational Musicology

Research Students

Amélie Anglade	High Level Logical Music Descriptors for Automatic Music Classification, Retrieval and Knowledge Discovery
Daniele Barchiesi	Dictionary Learning for Blind Deconvolution and Source Separation
Emmanouil Benetos	Automatic Transcription of Polyphonic Music
Magdalena Chudy	Music Performer Recognition Using Timbre Features
Alice Clifford	Reducing Artifacts Between Source and Microphone in Live Sound
Henrik Ekeus	Applying Models of Perception and Cognition to the Design of Artistic Generative Systems
Gyorgy Fazekas	Semantic Music Analysis for Intelligent Editing
Robin Fencott	Awareness in Collaborative Music
Peter Foster	Audio-based Music Structure Analysis and Prediction
Dimitrios Giannoulis	Recognition of Sound Sources and Objects in Music and Environmental Audio
Aris Gretsistas	Compressed Sensing of Audio Scenes
Ken O'Hanlon	Audio-visual analysis
Steven Hargreaves	Structural Segmentation of Multitrack Audio
Fabio Hedayioglu	DigiScope
Simon Hendry
Yuk Fan (Charlotte) Ho	Design and Analysis of Sigma Delta Modulators
Hassan Khalil	Audio source separation
Holger Kirchhoff	Estimation of Source Characteristics in the Context of Polyphonic Music Transcription
Sefki Kolozali
Mark Levy	Online Music Recognition and Search 2 (EPSRC)
Robert Macrae	Linking music-related information and audio data
Lesley Mearns	Voice Leading as a Prime Motivator in Music
Martin Morrell	3D sound localisation
Tim Murray Browne	Automated composition
Asma Rafiq	Users' Intentions Modelling for the enhancement of Music Recommendation Systems
Mehdi Shokri Zadeh	Real Time Audio Source Separation
Andrew Simpson	Signal-Dependent Effects of Audio System Nonlinearity on the Loudness Function
Chunyang Song	Intelligent Drum Accompaniment System
Adam Stark	Musical Audio Analysis for Real-Time Interaction
Michael Terrell	Intelligent Mixing Systems for Live Musical Performance
Robert Tubb
Yonghao Wang	Intelligent Audio Consoles
Sonia Wilkie	Perceived Motion in Space
Thomas Wilmering
Asterios Zacharakis

Visiting Researchers

Dr Hidehisa Nagano	[NTT, Japan]
Hiromasa Fujihara	[AIST, Japan]
Sašo Muševič	[UPF, Spain]

Past Academic Visitors

Laiwan Chan	[The Chinese University of Hong Kong]
Juan Carlos Cuevas Martinez	[University of Jaen, Spain]
Rémi Gribonval	[IRISA, Rennes, France]
Matija Marolt	[University of Ljubljana, Slovenia]
Yasunori Nishimori	[National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan]
Elias Pampalk	[Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (ÖFAI)]
Christian Uhle	[Fraunhofer IIS]

Past Academic Staff

Prof Mike Davies

[University of Edinburgh]

Past Research Staff

Dr Juan Bello-Correa	Towards the Automated Analysis of Simple Polyphonic Music: A Knowledge-Based Approach
Dr Thomas Blumensath	Sparse Representations for Signal Processing and Coding
Ian Clark	Asynchronous Communication Mechanisms for Real-time Systems
David Darlington	Wavelet Domain Signal Processing
Dr Matthew Davies	Machine Listening using Sparse Representations
Chris Dunn	Wavelet Compression of Audio
Mahmoud Hadef	Galileo Advanced Concepts
Mark Levy	Hierarchical Segmentation & Semantic Markup of Musical Signals
Dr Andrew Nesbit	Machine Listening using Sparse Representations
Marc Price	Filters and Speech
Dr Rebecca Stewart	Follow-on Fund
Dan Tidhar	OMRAS2: A Distributed Research Environment for Music Informatics and Computational Musicology
Dr Emmanuel Vincent	Object-Based Coding of Musical Audio
Dr Ruohua Zhou	EASAIER: Enabling Access to Sound Archives through Integration, Enrichment and Retrieval

Past Research Students

Samer Abdallah	Towards Music Perception by Redundancy Reduction and Unsupervised Learning in Probabilistic Models
Jean-Julien Aucouturier	Application of Hidden Markov Models to Music
Mohamed Aswat	Wavelet compression of audio
Nicolas Chetry	High Quality Voice Coding
Juan Bello-Correa	Towards the Automated Analysis of Simple Polyphonic Music: A Knowledge-Based Approach
Dawn Black	Missing Voice Frame Compensation for Packet Switched Networks
Thomas Blumensath	Unsupervised Learning of Shift-Invariant Features in Audio
Paul Brossier	Automatic Annotation of Musical Audio for Interactive Applications
Gabriela Castellano	Wavelet motion estimation
Matthew Davies	Towards Automatic Rhythmic Accompaniment
Christopher Duxbury	Signal Models for Polyphonic Music
Johannes Erwin	Digital Audio Watermarking
Jason Goldberg	Digital power amplification
Sylvain Le Groux	Music Synthesis
Christopher Harte
Ranting Huang	Scalable Multichannel Audio Coding
Peyman Heydarian	Rhythmic and Harmonic Analysis of Persian Musical Signals
Rod Hiorns	Digital power amplification
Kurt Jacobson	Connections in Music - the Global Music Graph
Ian Johnson	Regular language processing using neural networks
Simon Kershaw	Sigma-delta bitstream procesors
Panos Kudumakis	Wavelet compression
Christian Landone	3D Sound System Performance
Ben Leslie	Audio compression using wavelets
Jonathan MacKenzie	Using strange attractors to model sound
Anthony Magrath	Digital power amplification
Matthias Mauch	Multi-Level Chord Representations and their Applications in Musicology
Nikolaos Mitianoudis	Audio Source Separation using Independent Component Analysis
Giuliano Monti	Automatic Music Transcription
Andrew Nesbit	Sound source separation for music remixing
Katy Noland	Temporal Segmentation of Music using Timbre and Harmony
Allan Paul	Digital power amplification
Enrique Perez Gonzalez	Automatic mixing tools for audio and music production
Yves Raimond	Metadata for Musical Resources
Andrew Robertson	Interactive Real-time Musical Systems
Rebecca Stewart	Interactive Auralisation With Room Impulse Responses
Dan Stowell	Real-Time Analysis of Voice for Musical Applications
Massimiliano Tonelli	Blind Audio De-Reverberation
Mark Townsend	Analysis of percussion sounds using linear preditive coding
Beiming Wang	Musical Audio Stream Separation
Michael Waters	Digital EQ
Steve Welburn	Object Coding of Music Using Expressive MIDI
Mehrdad Yaghoobi	Sparse Representations for Signal Processing and Coding
Wen Xue	Harmonic Sinusoidal Modelling of Tonal Music Events
Xu Zhao	Blind Equalization
Jean Baptiste Thiebaut	Sketching Music: Study of music composition practices and development of the Music
Christopher Frauenberger	Auditory Display Design - An Investigation of a Design Pattern Approach

Past Research Adminstrators

Betty Woessner

EASAIER: Enabling Access to Sound Archives through Integration, Enrichment and Retrieval

Past Visiting Researchers

Marco Bevilacqua	Sparse Representations
Norberto Degara	Onset Detection and Beat Tracking
David Pastor Escuredo	OMRAS2: A Distributed Research Environment for Music Informatics and Computational Musicology
Jason Hockman
Jens Klingseisen	Music analysis using Multiple-Cause Models (ERASMUS)
Elias Kokkinis	Audio Signal Enhancement
Louis Matignon	EASAIER: Enabling Access to Sound Archives through Integration, Enrichment and Retrieval
Antoine Movschin	Artist Identification
Lazare Reznik	MPEG1 implementation (ERASMUS)
Yves Raimond	Metadata for Musical Resources
Emmanuel Ravelli	Audio time stretching, Drum loop analysis processing

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