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C. Cannam, L. A. Figueira and M. D. Plumbley. Sound software: Towards software reuse in audio and music research. To appear in: Proc ICASSP 2012, Kyoto, Japan, 25-30 March 2012.

N. Cleju, M. G. Jafari and M. D. Plumbley. Analysis-based sparse reconstruction with synthesis-based solvers. To appear in: Proc ICASSP 2012, Kyoto, Japan, 25-30 March 2012.

H. Fujihara, A. Klapuri and M. D. Plumbley. Instrumentation-based music similarity using sparse representations. To appear in: Proc ICASSP 2012, Kyoto, Japan, 25-30 March 2012.

A. Gretsistas and M. D. Plumbley. Group Polytope Faces Pursuit for recovery of block-sparse signals. To appear in: Proc 10th International Conference on Latent Variable Analysis and Source Separation (LVA/ICA 2012), Tel-Aviv, Israel, March 12-15, 2012.

B. Mailhe and M. D. Plumbley. Dictionary learning with large step gradient descent for sparse representations. To appear in: Proc 10th International Conference on Latent Variable Analysis and Source Separation (LVA/ICA 2012), Tel-Aviv, Israel, March 12-15, 2012.

B. Mailhe, D. Barchiesi and M. D. Plumbley. INK-SVD: Learning incoherent dictionaries for sparse representations. To appear in: Proc ICASSP 2012, Kyoto, Japan, 25-30 March 2012.

K. O'Hanlon, H. Nagano and M. D. Plumbley. Structured sparsity for automatic music transcription. To appear in: Proc ICASSP 2012, Kyoto, Japan, 25-30 March 2012.

2012

S. A. Abdallah and M. D. Plumbley. A measure of statistical complexity based on predictive information with application to finite spin systems. Physics Letters A 376(4): 275–281, Jan 2012. doi: 10.1016/j.physleta.2011.10.066

A. Adler, V. Emiya, M. G. Jafari, M. Elad, R. Gribonval and M. D. Plumbley. Audio Inpainting. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing 20(3): 922-932, Mar 2012. doi: 10.1109/TASL.2011.2168211

N. Degara, E. Argones Rua, A. Pena, S. Torres-Guijarro, M. E. P. Davies, and M. D. Plumbley. Reliability-informed beat tracking of musical signals. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing 20(1): 290-301, Jan 2012.
doi: 10.1109/TASL.2011.2160854

A. Stark and M. D. Plumbley. Performance following: Real-time prediction of musical sequences without a score. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 20(1): 190-199, Jan 2012. doi: 10.1109/TASL.2011.2159593

2011

A. Adler, M. Elad, V. Emiya, R. Gribonval, M. G. Jafari and M. D. Plumbley. A reproducible research framework for audio inpainting. In Proc 4th Workshop on Signal Processing with Adaptive Sparse Structured Representations (SPARS 11), Edinburgh, Scotland, June 27-30, 2011, p 77 (Extended abstract).

A. Adler, V. Emiya, M. G. Jafari, M. Elad, R. Gribonval, M. D. Plumbley. A constrained matching pursuit approach to audio declipping. In Proc IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2011), Prague, pp 329-332, May 22-27, 2011. doi: 10.1109/ICASSP.2011.5946407

D. Barchiesi and M. D. Plumbley. Dictionary learning of convolved signals. In Proc IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2011), Prague, pp 5812-5815, May 22-27, 2011. doi: 10.1109/ICASSP.2011.5947682

I. Damnjanovic, M. E. P. Davies, M. D. Plumbley. Evaluating dictionary learning for sparse representation algorithms using SMALLbox. In Proc 4th Workshop on Signal Processing with Adaptive Sparse Structured Representations (SPARS 11), Edinburgh, Scotland, June 27-30, 2011, p 76 (Extended abstract).

M. E. P. Davies, N. Degara, and M. D. Plumbley. Measuring the performance of beat tracking algorithms using a beat error histogram IEEE Signal Processing Letters 18(3):157-160, Mar 2011.
doi: 10.1109/LSP.2010.2102018

N. Degara, M. E. P. Davies, A. Pena, and M. D. Plumbley. Onset event decoding exploiting the rhythmic structure of polyphonic music. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing 5(6): 1228-1239, Oct 2011. doi: 10.1109/JSTSP.2011.2146229

G. Evangelista, S. Marchand, M. D. Plumbley and E. Vincent. Sound source separation. In U. Zölzer (ed), DAFX: Digital Audio Effects, 2nd edition, Chapter 14, pp. 551-558. John Wiley & Sons, March 2011. ISBN 978-0-470-66599-2.

P. Foster, A. Klapuri and M. D. Plumbley. Causal prediction of continuous-valued music features. In Proc 12th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2011), October 24-28, pp 501-506.

D. Giannoulis, D. Barchiesi, A. Klapuri and M. D. Plumbley. On the disjointess of sources in music using different time-frequency representations. In: Proc IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA 2011), October 16-19, 2011, New Paltz, NY, pp 261-264, 2011.

A. Gretsistas and M. D. Plumbley. A source localization approach based on structured sparsity for broadband far-field sources. In Proc 4th Workshop on Signal Processing with Adaptive Sparse Structured Representations (SPARS 11), Edinburgh, Scotland, June 27-30, 2011, p 35 (Extended abstract).

F. L. Hedayioglu, M. G. Jafari, S. S. Mattos, M. D. Plumbley, M. T. Coimbra. Separating sources from sequentially acquired mixtures of heart signals. In Proc IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2011), Prague, pp 653-656, May 22-27, 2011. doi: 10.1109/ICASSP.2011.5946488

64. M. G. Jafari, F. L. Hedayioglu, M. T. Coimbra and M. D. Plumbley. Blind source separation of periodic sources from sequentially recorded instantaneous mixtures. In Proc 7th International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis (ISPA 2011), Dubrovnik, Croatia, 4-6 Sept. 2011, pp 540-545, 2011.

M.G. Jafari and M. D. Plumbley. Fast dictionary learning for sparse representations of speech signals. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing 5(5): 1025-1031, Sep 2011.
doi: 10.1109/JSTSP.2011.2157892

B. Mailhe and M. D. Plumbley. Local optimality of dictionary learning algorithms. In Proc 4th Workshop on Signal Processing with Adaptive Sparse Structured Representations (SPARS 11), Edinburgh, Scotland, June 27-30, 2011, p 67 (Extended abstract).

T. Murray-Browne, D. Mainstone, N. Bryan-Kinns and M. D. Plumbley. The medium is the message: Composing instruments and performing mappings. In Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2011), 30 May - 1 June 2011, Oslo, Norway, pp 56-59, 2011.
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K. O’Hanlon and M. D. Plumbley. Structure-aware non-negative dictionary learning. In Proc 4th Workshop on Signal Processing with Adaptive Sparse Structured Representations (SPARS 11), Edinburgh, Scotland, June 27-30, 2011, p69 (Extended abstract).

K. O’Hanlon and M. D. Plumbley. Structure-aware dictionary learning with harmonic atoms. In Proc 19th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2011), Barcelona, Spain, 29 Aug – 2 Sep 2011, pp 1761-65.

B. Ophir, M. Elad, N. Bertin and M. D. Plumbley. Sequential minimal eigenvalues: An approach to analysis dictionary learning. In Proc 19th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2011), Barcelona, Spain, 29 Aug – 2 Sep 2011, pp 1465-1469.

D. Stowell and M. D. Plumbley. Learning timbre analogies from unlabelled data by multivariate tree regression. Journal of New Music Research 40(4): 325-336, 2011. doi: 10.1080/09298215.2011.596938

2010

S. Abdallah and M. D. Plumbley. Predictive information and Bayesian surprise in exchangeable random processes. Technical Report C4DM-TR10-09, Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary, University of London. 31 October 2010
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S. Abdallah and M. D. Plumbley. Predictive information, multi-information, and binding information. Technical Report C4DM-TR10-10, Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary, University of London. 9 December 2010
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I. Damnjanovic, M. E. P. Davies, M. D. Plumbley. SMALLbox: An evaluation framework for sparse representations and dictionary learning algorithms. In: Proc. LVA/ICA 2010, St. Malo, France, Sept. 27-30, 2010. LNCS 6365, pp. 418-425.
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N. Degara, A. Pena, M. E. P. Davies and M. D. Plumbley. Note onset detection using rhythmic structure. In Proc ICASSP 2010, Dallas, TX, USA, pp 5526-5529, March 2010.
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A. Gretsistas, I. Damnjanovic and M. D. Plumbley. Gradient polytope faces pursuit for large scale sparse recovery problems. In Proc ICASSP 2010, Dallas, TX, USA, pp 2030-2033, March 2010.
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A. Gretsistas and M. D. Plumbley. A multichannel spatial compressed sensing approach for direction of arrival estimation. In: Proc. LVA/ICA 2010, St. Malo, France, Sept. 27-30, 2010. LNCS 6365, pp. 458-465.
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M. G. Jafari, and M. D. Plumbley. A doubly sparse greedy adaptive dictionary learning algorithm for music and large-scale data. In Proc AES 128th Convention, London, UK, 22-25 May 2010.

F. Jaillet, R. Gribonval, M. D. Plumbley and H. Zayyani. An l1 criterion for dictionary learning by subspace identification. In Proc ICASSP 2010, Dallas, TX, USA, pp 5482-5485, March 2010.
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T. Murray-Browne, D. Mainstone, N. Bryan-Kinns and M. D. Plumbley. The Serendiptichord: A wearable instrument for contemporary dance performance. In Proc AES 128th Convention, London, UK, 22-25 May 2010.

T. Murray-Browne, D. Mainstone, N. Bryan-Kinns, M. D. Plumbley, Balancing predictable control with chance discovery in a wearable instrument for dancers. Presented at the Sound, Sight, Space and Play (SSSP) conference, Leicester, UK, June 2-4, 2010. (Talk by Tim Murray-Browne)

A. Nesbit, M. G. Jafari, E. Vincent and M. D. Plumbley. Audio source separation using sparse representations. In W. Wang (Ed), Machine Audition: Principles, Algorithms and Systems. Chapter 10, pp.246-264. IGI Global, July 2010.

M. D. Plumbley, T. Blumensath, L. Daudet, R. Gribonval and M. E. Davies. Sparse representations in audio and music: from coding to source separation. Proceedings of the IEEE 98, 995-1005, June 2010.
doi: 10.1109/JPROC.2009.2030345
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M. D. Plumbley, A. Cichocki and R. Bro. Non-negative mixtures. In P. Comon and C. Jutten (Ed), Handbook of Blind Source Separation: Independent Component Analysis and Applications. Chapter 13, pp 515-547. Academic Press, Feb 2010. ISBN-13: 978-0-12-374726-6.

A. Stark and M. D. Plumbley. Performance following: Tracking a performance without a score. In Proc ICASSP 2010, Dallas, TX, USA, pp 2482-2485, March 2010.
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D. Stowell and M. D. Plumbley. Timbre remapping through a regression-tree technique. In Proceedings of the 7th Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC 2010), Barcelona, Spain, 21-24 July 2010.
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D. Stowell and M. D. Plumbley. Cross-associating unlabelled timbre distributions to create expressive musical mappings, Workshop on Applications of Pattern Analysis, August 2010.
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D. Stowell and M. D. Plumbley. Delayed decision-making in real-time beatbox percussion classification. Journal of New Music Research, 39 (3), 203-213, 2010.
doi:10.1080/09298215.2010.512979
[Download: preprint (490k)] Author Posting. (c) Taylor & Francis, 2010. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of Taylor & Francis for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Journal of New Music Research, Volume 39 Issue 3, September 2010.

E. Vincent, M. G. Jafari, S. A. Abdallah, M. D. Plumbley, M. E. Davies. Probabilistic modeling paradigms for audio source separation. In W. Wang (Ed), Machine Audition: Principles, Algorithms and Systems. Chapter 7, pp. 162-185. IGI Global, July 2010.

S. J. Welburn and M. D. Plumbley. Improving the performance of pitch estimators. In Proc AES 128th Convention, London, UK, 22-25 May 2010.

2009

S. A. Abdallah and M. D. Plumbley. Information Dynamics: Patterns of expectation and surprise in the perception of music. Connection Science, 21(2), 89-117, 2009. doi: 10.1080/09540090902733756
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S. A. Abdallah and M. D. Plumbley. Information dynamics and the perception of temporal structure. In Connectionist Models of Behavior and Cognition II: Proceedings of the 11th Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop, Oxford, UK, 16-18 July 2008, (J. Mayor, N. Ruh and K. Plunkett, eds.), pp179-190. Progress in Neural Processing, Vol. 18, World Scientific Publishing, 2009.

T. Blumensath, M. E. Davies and M. D. Plumbley. Convex optimisation for inverse problems of signals from a union of subspaces. Presented at the INSPIRE 2009 Conference on information representation and estimation, London, UK, September 21-24, 2009. (Poster presentation, abstract only).

M. E. P. Davies, N. Degara and M. D. Plumbley. Evaluation Methods for Musical Audio Beat Tracking Algorithms. Technical Report C4DM-TR-09-06, Queen Mary University of London, Centre for Digital Music, 8 October 2009.
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M. E. P. Davies, M. D. Plumbley and D. Eck. Towards a Musical Beat Emphasis Function. In: Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA 2009), New Paltz, NY, October 18-21, 2009, pp 61-64, 2009.
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M. G. Jafari and M. D. Plumbley. Speech denoising based on a greedy adaptive dictionary algorithm. In Proc. 17th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2009) Glasgow, Scotland, August 24-28, 2009, pp 1423-1426, 2009.
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M. G. Jafari and M. D. Plumbley. A sparse greedy algorithm for speech signals in noise. Presented at the INSPIRE 2009 Conference on information representation and estimation, London, UK, September 21-24, 2009. (Poster presentation, abstract only).

A. Nesbit, E. Vincent and M. D. Plumbley. Benchmarking flexible adaptive time-frequency transforms for underdetermined audio source separation. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2009), 19-24 April 2009, pp. 37-40.
doi: 10.1109/ICASSP.2009.4959514
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A. Nesbit, E. Vincent and M. D. Plumbley. Extension of sparse, adaptive signal decompositions to semi-blind audio source separation. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Independent Component Analysis and Signal Separation (ICA 2009), Paraty, Brazil, March 15-18, 2009, LNCS 5441, pp. 605-612.
doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-00599-2_76
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M. D. Plumbley and M. Bevilacqua. Stagewise Polytope Faces Pursuit for Recovery of Sparse Representations. Presented at the Sparsity in Machine Learning and Statistics workshop, Cumberland Lodge, UK, 1-3 April 2009.
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M. D. Plumbley and M. Bevilacqua. Sparse Reconstruction for Compressed Sensing using Stagewise Polytope Faces Pursuit. In Proc. 16th International Conference on Digital Signal Processing (DSP 2009), 5-7 July 2009 (8 pp).
doi: 10.1109/ICDSP.2009.5201170
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A. Robertson and M. D. Plumbley. Post-Processing Fiddle: A Real-Time Multi-Pitch Tracking Technique using Harmonic Partial Subtraction for Use within Live Performance Systems. In Proceedings of the 2009 International Computer Music Conference (ICMC 2009), Montreal, Canada, 16-21 August 2009.
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A. Robertson and M. D. Plumbley. B-Keeper: experiences in drum tracking. Presented at the Digital Music Research Network One-day Workshop 2009 (DMRN+4), London, UK, Dec 2009 (Talk by Andrew Robertson)

A. M. Stark, M. E. P. Davies and M. D. Plumbley. Real-Time Beat-Synchronous Analysis of Musical Audio. In Proc. of the 12th Int. Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx-09), Como, Italy, September 1-4, 2009.
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A. M. Stark and M. D. Plumbley. Real-time chord recognition for live performance. In Proceedings of the 2009 International Computer Music Conference (ICMC 2009), Montreal, Canada, 16-21 August 2009.
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D. Stowell and M. D. Plumbley. Fast multidimensional entropy estimation by k-d partitioning. IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 16(6), 537-540, 2009
doi: 10.1109/LSP.2009.2017346
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D. Stowell, A. Robertson, M. D. Plumbley, and N. Bryan-Kinns, Evaluation of live human-computer music-making: quantitative and qualitative approaches, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 67 (11), 960-975, November 2009. doi: 10.1016/j.ijhcs.2009.05.007
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D. Stowell and M. D. Plumbley, Perception of deferred classification in real-time percussion. Presented at the Digital Music Research Network One-day Workshop 2009 (DMRN+4), London, UK, Dec 2009 (Talk by Dan Stowell)

K. Toyama and M. D. Plumbley. Using phase linearity in frequency-domain ICA to tackle the permutation problem. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2009), 19-24 April 2009, pp. 3165-3168. doi: 10.1109/ICASSP.2009.4960296
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K. Toyama and M. D. Plumbley. Estimating phase linearity in the frequency-domain ICA demixing matrix. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Independent Component Analysis and Signal Separation (ICA 2009), Paraty, Brazil, March 15-18, 2009, LNCS 5441, pp. 362-370.
doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-00599-2_46
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S. Welburn and M. D. Plumbley. Estimating Parameters from Audio for an EG+LFO Model of Pitch Envelopes. In Proc. of the 12th Int. Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx-09), Como, Italy, September 1-4, 2009.
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S. Welburn and M. D. Plumbley. Rendering audio using expressive MIDI. In Proceedings of the 127th AES Convention, New York NY, USA, October 9-12 2009, Convention Paper 7862.

2008

M. E. P. Davies and M. D. Plumbley. Exploring the effect of rhythmic style classification on automatic tempo estimation. In Proceedings of the 16th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO-2008), Lausanne, Switzerland, 25-29 August 2008.
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J. A. Hockman, J. P. Bello, M. E. P. Davies and M. D. Plumbley. Automated rhythmic transformation of musical audio. In Proc. of the 11th Int. Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx-08), Espoo, Finland, September 1-4, 2008, pp 177-180, 2008. ISBN 978-951-22-9517-3.
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M. G. Jafari and M. D. Plumbley. An adaptive orthogonal sparsifying transform for speech signals. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Communications, Control and Signal Processing (ISCCSP 2008), Malta, 12–14 March, 2008, pp 786-790, 2008.
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M. G. Jafari and M. D. Plumbley. Separation of stereo speech signals based on a sparse dictionary algorithm. In Proceedings of the 16th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO-2008), Lausanne, Switzerland, 25-29 August 2008.
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M. G. Jafari, M. D. Plumbley and Mike E. Davies. Speech separation using an adaptive sparse dictionary algorithm. In Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Hands-free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays (HSCMA 2008), Trento, Italy, 6-8 May 2008, pp 25-28, 2008.
doi: 10.1109/HSCMA.2008.4538679
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M. G. Jafari, E. Vincent, S. A. Abdallah, M. D. Plumbley and M. E. Davies. An adaptive stereo basis method for convolutive blind audio source separation. Neurocomputing 71, 2087-2097, 2008.
doi: 10.1016/j.neucom.2007.08.029
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H. Laurberg, M. Græsbøll Christensen, M. D. Plumbley, L. K. Hansen and S. H. Jensen. Theorems on positive data: On the uniqueness of NMF. Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience, Volume 2008, Article ID 764206, 9 pages, 2008.
doi: 10.1155/2008/764206
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A. Nesbit and M. D. Plumbley. Oracle estimation of adaptive cosine packet transforms for underdetermined audio source separation. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2008), Las Vegas, USA, 30 March - 4 April, 2008, pp 41-44.
doi: 10.1109/ICASSP.2008.4517541
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A. Nesbit, M. D. Plumbley and E. Vincent. Oracle evaluation of flexible adaptive transforms for underdetermined audio source separation. In Proc ICArn International Workshop 2008, Liverpool, UK, pp 17-20, 2008.
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Y. Nishimori, S. Akaho and M. D. Plumbley. Natural conjugate gradient on complex flag manifolds for complex independent subspace analysis. In V. Kurkova et al. (Eds.): Artificial Neural Networks (Proc. ICANN 2008), Part I, LNCS 5163, pp 165-174, 2008.
doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-87536-9_18
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A. Robertson and M. D. Plumbley and N. Bryan-Kinns. A Turing Test for B-Keeper: Evaluating an Interactive Real-Time Beat-Tracker. In Proc 8th International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2008), Genova, Italy, 5-7 June 2008, pp 319-324, 2008.
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A. M. Stark, M. E. P. Davies and M. D. Plumbley. Rhythmic analysis for real-time audio effects. In Proceedings of the 2008 International Computer Music Conference (ICMC 2008).
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D. Stowell and M. D. Plumbley. Characteristics of the beatboxing vocal style. Tech. Rep. C4DM-TR-08-01, Centre for Digital Music, Dept. of Electronic Engineering, Queen Mary, University of London, 2008.
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D. Stowell and M. D. Plumbley. Robustness and independence of voice timbre features under live performance acoustic degradations. In Proc. of the 11th Int. Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx-08), Espoo, Finland, September 1-4, 2008, pp. 325-332, 2008. ISBN 978-951-22-9517-3.
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D. Stowell, M. D. Plumbley, and N. Bryan-Kinns. Discourse analysis evaluation method for expressive musical interfaces. In Proc 8th International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2008), Genova, Italy, 5-7 June 2008, pp 81-87, 2008.
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J.-B. Thiebaut, S. Abdallah, A. Robertson, N. Bryan-Kinns and M. D. Plumbley. Real time gesture learning and recognition: Towards automatic categorization. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2008), Genova, Italy, 5-7 June 2008, pp 215-217, 2008.
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K. Toyama, A. Nesbit, M. G. Jafari and M. D. Plumbley. Using phase linearity to tackle the permutation problem in audio source separation. In Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Acoustic Echo and Noise Control (IWAENC 2008), Seattle, WA, USA, 14-17 September 2008. Paper no: 9040.
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K. Toyama, A. Nesbit, M. G. Jafari and M. D. Plumbley. Solving the permutation problem using phase linearity and frequency correlation. In Proc ICArn International Workshop 2008, Liverpool, UK, pp 48-51, 2008.
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E. Vincent and M. D. Plumbley. Efficient Bayesian inference for harmonic models via adaptive posterior factorization. Neurocomputing 72, 79-87, 2008.
doi:10.1016/j.neucom.2007.12.050
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2007

S. A. Abdallah and M. D. Plumbley (2007) Information dynamics and temporal structure in music. Presented at: Language and Music as Cognitive Systems, Cambridge, UK, 11-13 May 2007.

S. A. Abdallah and M. D. Plumbley. Information Dynamics. Technical Report C4DM-TR07-01, Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary University of London, 18 July 2007.
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S. A. Abdallah and M. D. Plumbley. Information dynamics and temporal structure in music. Presented at the NIPS '07 Workshop on Music, Brain and Cognition, Vancouver, Canada, Dec 2007.
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M. E. Davies, M. J. Jafari, S. A. Abdallah, E. Vincent and M. D. Plumbley. Blind speech separation using space-time independent component analysis. In S. Makino, T. W. Lee, H. Sawada (Eds.): Blind Speech Separation. Springer, 2007
doi: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6479-1_3

M. E. Davies, C. J. James, S. A. Abdallah and M. D. Plumbley (eds). Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Independent Component Analysis and Signal Separation, ICA 2007, London, UK. Springer-Verlag, 2007.
doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-74494-8

M. E. P. Davies and M. D. Plumbley. Context-dependent beat tracking of musical audio. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 15(3), 1009-1020, 2007.
doi:10.1109/TASL.2006.885257
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[Previous version available as: Technical Report C4DM-TR-06-02, 5 April 2006.]

M. E. P. Davies and M. D. Plumbley. On the use of entropy for beat tracking evaluation. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2007), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 15-20 April 2007. Vol IV, pp IV-1305-1308, 2007.
doi: 10.1109/ICASSP.2007.367317
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M. G. Jafari and M. D. Plumbley. The role of high frequencies in convolutive blind source separation of speech signals. In M. E. Davies, C. J. James, S. A. Abdallah and M. D. Plumbley (eds.), Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Independent Component Analysis and Signal Separation, ICA 2007, London, UK, 9-12 Sept 2007, LNCS 4666, pp 488-494, Springer, Berlin.
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M. G. Jafari and M. D. Plumbley. Convolutive blind source separation of speech signals in the low frequency bands. In Proceedings of the 123rd AES Convention, New York, NY, 5-8 October 2007. Convention Paper 7312.
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A. Nesbit, M. D. Plumbley and M. E. Davies. Audio source separation with a signal-adaptive local cosine transform. Signal Processing 87(8), 1848-1858, August 2007. Special Issue on Independent Component Analysis and Blind Source Separation.
doi:10.1016/j.sigpro.2007.02.011

Y. Nishimori, S. Akaho, S. A. Abdallah and M. D. Plumbley. Flag manifolds for subspace ICA problems. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2007), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 15-20 April 2007. Vol IV, pp IV-1417-1420, 2007.
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M. D. Plumbley. Geometry and manifolds for independent component analysis. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2007), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 15-20 April 2007. Vol IV, pp IV-1397-1400, 2007.
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M. D. Plumbley and S. A. Abdallah. Information theory and sensory perception. In: J. A. Bryant, M. A. Atherton, M. W. Collins (Eds.) Design and Information in Biology: From Molecules to Systems, Chapter 7, pp 205-233. WIT Press, Southampton, UK, 2007. ISBN: 978-1-85312-853-0.

M. D. Plumbley. Dictionary Learning for L1-Exact Sparse Coding. In M. E. Davies, C. J. James, S. A. Abdallah and M. D. Plumbley (eds.), Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Independent Component Analysis and Signal Separation, ICA 2007, London, UK, 9-12 Sept 2007, LNCS 4666, pp 406-413, Springer, Berlin.
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M. D. Plumbley. On polar polytopes and the recovery of sparse representations. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 53(9), 3188-3195 , September 2007
doi: 10.1109/TIT.2007.903129

A. Robertson and M. D. Plumbley. B-Keeper: A beat-tracker for live performance. In Proceedings of the 2007 Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME07), New York, NY, USA, June 6-10, 2007, pp 234-237, 2007.
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A. Robertson and M. D. Plumbley. Real-time beat-tracker for live performance with drums. In Proceedings of the Digital Music Research Network Summer Conference, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK, 7-8 July 2007.
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A. M. Stark, M. D. Plumbley and M. E. P. Davies. Audio effects for real-time performance using beat tracking. In Proceedings of the the 122nd AES Convention, Convention paper 7156. Vienna, Austria, May 5–8 2007.
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A. M. Stark, M. D. Plumbley and M. E. P. Davies. Real-time beat-synchronous audio effects. In Proceedings of New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2007), New York, NY, USA, June 6-10, 2007, pp 344-345, 2007.
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D. Stowell and M. D. Plumbley. Pitch-aware real-time timbral re-mapping. In Proceedings of the Digital Music Research Network Summer Conference, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK, 7-8 July 2007.
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D. Stowell and M. D. Plumbley. Adaptive whitening for improved real-time audio onset detection. In: Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC’07), Copenhagen, Denmark, pp. 312-319, August 2007.
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D. Stowell and M. D. Plumbley. Adaptive whitening preprocessing applied to onset detectors. In Proc. Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange (MIREX 2007), Onset Detection Task, 2007
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E. Vincent, R. Gribonval and M. D. Plumbley. Oracle estimators for the benchmarking of source separation algorithms. Signal Processing 87(8), 1933-1950, August 2007. Special Issue on Independent Component Analysis and Blind Source Separation.
doi:10.1016/j.sigpro.2007.01.016
[Previous version available as: Technical Report C4DM-TR-06-03, 28 July 2006.]

E. Vincent and M. D. Plumbley. Low bitrate object coding of musical audio using Bayesian harmonic models. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 15(4), 1273-1282, 2007.
doi: 10.1109/TASL.2006.889792
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[Previous version available as: Technical Report C4DM-TR-06-01. 4 April 2006.]

S. J. Welburn, M. D. Plumbley and E. Vincent. Object-coding for resolution-free musical audio. In Proceedings of the 31st International AES Conference: "New Directions in High Resolution Audio", London, UK, June 25-27, 2007.
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2006

S. A. Abdallah and M. D. Plumbley. Unsupervised analysis of polyphonic music using sparse coding. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 17(1), 179-196, January 2006.
doi:10.1109/TNN.2005.861031
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S. A. Abdallah and M. D. Plumbley. Geometric Dependency Analysis. Technical Report C4DM-TR-06-05, Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary University of London, 11 August 2006.
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S. A. Abdallah and M. D. Plumbley. Information dynamics and musical structure. Presented at the Digital Music Research Network One-day Workshop 2006 (DMRN+1), London, UK, Dec 2006.

M. E. P. Davies and M. D. Plumbley. A spectral difference approach to downbeat extraction in musical audio. In: Proceedings of the 14th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2006), Florence, Italy, Sept 4-8, 2006.
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M. E. P. Davies and M. D. Plumbley. Entropy based beat tracking evaluation. In Proceedings of the Digital Music Research Network Doctoral Researchers Conference (DMRN-06), London, UK, July 22-23, 2006.
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M. E. P. Davies and M. D. Plumbley. Tempo estimation and beat tracking with adaptive input selection. In Proc. Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange (MIREX 2006), Audio Beat Tracking and Audio Tempo Extraction tasks, Oct 2006.
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M. G. Jafari, S. A. Abdallah, M. D. Plumbley and M. E. Davies. Sparse coding for convolutive blind audio source separation. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Independent Component Analysis and Blind Source Separation (ICA 2006), Charleston, SC, USA, 5-8 March 2006, LNCS 3889, pp 132-139, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2006.
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M. G. Jafari, E. Vincent, S. A. Abdallah, M. D. Plumbley and M. E. Davies. An adaptive stereo basis method for convolutive blind audio source separation. Technical Report C4DM-TR-06-04, Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary University of London, 9 August 2006.
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M. G. Jafari, E. Vincent, S. A. Abdallah, M. D. Plumbley and M. E. Davies. Blind source separation of convolutive audio using an adaptive stereo basis. In: A K Nandi and X Zhu (eds.), Proceedings of the ICA Research Network International Workshop, Liverpool, UK, 18-19 Sept 2006, pp 105-108, 2006. ISBN 0 906370 44 2.
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A. Nesbit, M. E. Davies, M. D. Plumbley and M. B. Sandler. Source extraction from two-channel mixtures by joint cosine packet analysis. In: Proceedings of the 14th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2006), Florence, Italy, Sept 4-8, 2006.
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A. Nesbit, M. D. Plumbley and M. E. Davies. A signal-adaptive local cosine transform for source separation by time-frequency masking. In: A K Nandi and X Zhu (eds.), Proceedings of the ICA Research Network International Workshop, Liverpool, UK, 18-19 Sept 2006, pp 116-119, 2006. ISBN 0 906370 44 2.
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Y. Nishimori, S. Akaho and M. D. Plumbley. Riemannian Optimization Method on the Flag Manifold for Independent Subspace Analysis. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Independent Component Analysis and Blind Source Separation (ICA 2006), Charleston, SC, USA, 5-8 March 2006, LNCS 3889, pp 295-302. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2006.
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Y. Nishimori, S. Akaho and M. D. Plumbley. Riemannian Optimization Method on the Generalized Flag Manifold for Complex and Subspace ICA. Presented at MaxEnt 2006: International Workshop on Bayesian Inference and Maximum Entropy Methods in Science and Engineering, CNRS, Paris, France, July 8-13, 2006.

M. D. Plumbley. Recovery of Sparse Representations by Polytope Faces Pursuit. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Independent Component Analysis and Blind Source Separation (ICA 2006), Charleston, SC, USA, 5-8 March 2006, LNCS 3889, pp 206-213. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2006.
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M. D. Plumbley, S. A. Abdallah, T. Blumensath and M. E. Davies. Sparse Representations of Polyphonic Music. Signal Processing 86(3), 417-431, March 2006.
doi:10.1016/j.sigpro.2005.06.007
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M. D. Plumbley, S. A. Abdallah, T. Blumensath, M. G. Jafari, A. Nesbit, E. Vincent and B. Wang. Musical audio analysis using sparse representations. In COMPSTAT 2006 Proceedings in Computational Statistics, Rome, Italy, pp 104-117. Physical-Verlag, 2006.
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A. N. Robertson and M. D. Plumbley. Real-time Interactive Musical Systems: An Overview. In Proceedings of the Digital Music Research Network Doctoral Researchers Conference (DMRN-06), London, UK, July 22-23, 2006.
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C. Sutton, E. Vincent, M. D. Plumbley and J. P. Bello. Transcription of vocal melodies using voice characteristics and algorithm fusion. In Proc. Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange (MIREX 2006), Audio Melody Extraction contest, 2006.
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E. Vincent, M. G. Jafari and M. D. Plumbley. Preliminary guidelines for subjective evaluation of audio source separation algorithms. In: A K Nandi and X Zhu (eds.), Proceedings of the ICA Research Network International Workshop, Liverpool, UK, 18-19 Sept 2006, pp 93-96, 2006. ISBN 0 906370 44 2.
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E. Vincent and M. D. Plumbley. Fast factorization-based inference for Bayesian harmonic models. In Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing, Maynooth, Ireland, September 6-8, 2006.
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E. Vincent and M. D. Plumbley. Single-Channel Mixture Decomposition Using Bayesian Harmonic Models. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Independent Component Analysis and Blind Source Separation (ICA 2006), Charleston, SC, USA, 5-8 March 2006, LNCS 3889, pp 722-730. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2006.
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B. Wang and M. D. Plumbley. Investigating single-channel audio source separation methods based on non-negative matrix factorization. In: A K Nandi and X Zhu (eds.), Proceedings of the ICA Research Network International Workshop, 18-19 Sept 2006, pp 17-20, 2006. ISBN 0 906370 44 2.
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B. Wang and M. D. Plumbley. Single Channel Audio Separation by Non-negative Matrix Factorization. Presented at the Digital Music Research Network One-day Workshop 2006 (DMRN+1), London, UK, Dec 2006.

2005

M. E. P. Davies, P. Brossier and M. D. Plumbley. Beat Tracking Towards Automatic Musical Accompaniment. In Proceedings of the AES 118th Convention, Barcelona, May 28-31, 2005. Convention paper 6408.
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M. E. P. Davies and M. D. Plumbley. Beat Tracking With A Two State Model. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2005), Vol. 3, pp241-244 Philadelphia, USA, March 19-23, 2005
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M. E. P. Davies and M. D. Plumbley. Comparing mid-level representations for audio based beat tracking. In Proceedings of the DMRN Summer Conference, Glasgow, 23-24 July 2005.
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T. Myatt, B. Eaglestone, E. Miranda, M. D. Plumbley and F. Rumsey Digital Music Research UK Roadmap, 2005.

M. D. Plumbley. Geometrical methods for non-negative ICA: Manifolds, Lie groups and toral subalgebras. Neurocomputing, 67, 161-197, 2005.
doi:10.1016/j.neucom.2004.11.040
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M. D. Plumbley. Geometry and homotopy for L1 sparse representations. In: Proceedings of the Workshop on Signal Processing with Adaptive Sparse Structured Representations (SPARS'05), 16-18 November 2005, Rennes, France, pp 131-134, 2005
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M. D. Plumbley. Polar Polytopes and Recovery of Sparse Representations. Preprint arXiv:cs/0510032v1, 13 Oct 2005.
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E. Vincent, M. G. Jafari, S. A. Abdallah, M. D. Plumbley and M. E. Davies. Blind Audio Source Separation. Technical Report C4DM-TR-05-01. Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary University of London, 24 November 2005
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E. Vincent and M. D. Plumbley. A prototype system for object coding of musical audio. In Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA 05), pp 239-242, 2005.
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E. Vincent and M. D. Plumbley. Predominant-F0 estimation using Bayesian harmonic waveform models. In Proceedings of the 1st Annual Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange (MIREX 2005), Audio Melody Extraction contest, September 2005.
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B. Wang and M. D. Plumbley. Musical audio stream separation by non-negative matrix factorization. In Proceedings of the DMRN Summer Conference, Glasgow, 23-24 July 2005.
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2004

S. A. Abdallah and M. D. Plumbley. Application of Geometric Dependency Analysis to the Separation of Convolved Mixtures. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Independent Component Analysis and Blind Signal Separation (ICA 2004), pp 540-547, Granada, Spain, September 22-24, 2004.
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S. A. Abdallah and M. D. Plumbley. Polyphonic transcription by non-negative sparse coding of power spectra. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR 2004), pp 318-325, Barcelona, Spain, October 10-14, 2004.
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P. Brossier, J. P. Bello and M. D. Plumbley. Real-time temporal segmentation of note objects in music signals. In Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC 2004), Florida, USA, November 1-6, 2004.
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P. Brossier, J. P. Bello and M. D. Plumbley. Fast labelling of notes in music signals. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR 2004), pp 331-336, Barcelona, Spain, October 10-14, 2004.
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M. E. P. Davies and M. D. Plumbley. Causal Tempo Tracking of Audio. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR 2004), pp 164-169, Barcelona, Spain, October 10-14, 2004.
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E. Oja and M. D. Plumbley. Blind Separation of Positive Sources by Globally Convergent Gradient Search. Neural Computation 16(9), pp 1811-1825, Sept 2004.
doi:10.1162/0899766041336413
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M. D. Plumbley. Optimization using Fourier Expansion over a Geodesic for Non-Negative ICA. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Independent Component Analysis and Blind Signal Separation (ICA 2004), pp 49-56, Granada, Spain, September 22-24, 2004.
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M. D. Plumbley. Lie Group Methods for Optimization with Orthogonality Constraints. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Independent Component Analysis and Blind Signal Separation (ICA 2004), pp 1245-1252, Granada, Spain, September 22-24, 2004. [Invited Keynote]
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M. D. Plumbley and E. Oja. A 'Nonnegative PCA' Algorithm for Independent Component Analysis. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 15(1), pp 66-76, Jan 2004.
doi:10.1109/TNN.2003.820672
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2003

S. A. Abdallah and M. D. Plumbley. An Independent Component Analysis approach to Automatic Music Transcription. In Proceedings of the 114th AES Convention, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Convention paper 5754, 22-25 March 2003.
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S. A. Abdallah and M. D. Plumbley. Geometric ICA Using Nonlinear Correlation and MDS. In Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Independent Component Analysis (ICA2003), pp 161-166, Nara, Japan, April 1-4, 2003.
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S. A. Abdallah and M. D. Plumbley. Probability as metadata: Event detection in music using ICA as a conditional density model. In Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Independent Component Analysis (ICA2003), pp 233-238, Nara, Japan, April 1-4, 2003. [pdf (290k)]

S. A. Abdallah and M. D. Plumbley. Unsupervised onset detection: a probabilistic approach using ICA and and a hidden Markov classifier. In Proceedings of the Cambridge Music Processing Colloquium, Cambridge, UK, March 2003. [pdf (657k)]

P. Brossier, M. B. Sandler and M. D. Plumbley. Matching Live Sources with Physical Models. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx-03), pp 305-307, 8-11 Sept, 2003. [pdf (122k)]

P. Brossier, M. B. Sandler and M. D. Plumbley. Real-time object-based coding. In Proceedings of the 114th AES Convention, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Convention paper 5809, 22-25 March 2003.
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E. Oja and M. D. Plumbley. Blind Separation of Positive Sources using Non-Negative PCA. In Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Independent Component Analysis (ICA2003), pp 11-16, Nara, Japan, April 1-4, 2003. [pdf (254k)]

M. D. Plumbley. Algorithms for non-negative independent component analysis. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 14 (3), pp 534- 543, May 2003.
doi:10.1109/TNN.2003.810616
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2002

M. D. Plumbley. Conditions for nonnegative independent component analysis. IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 9(6) , pp177 -180, June 2002.
doi:10.1109/LSP.2002.800502
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M. D. Plumbley. Non-Negative and Geodesic approaches to Independent Component Analysis. Workshop on Independent Component Analysis: Algorithms, Applications and Extensions, 20 December 2002, London, UK (Workshop presentation).
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M. D. Plumbley. Clustering of Sparse Binary Data using a Minimum Description Length Approach. Technical Report, September 2002.
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M. D. Plumbley, S. A. Abdallah, J. P. Bello, M. E. Davies, G. Monti and M. B. Sandler. Automatic music transcription and audio source separation. Cybernetics and Systems, 33(6), pp603-627, 2002.
doi:10.1080/01969720290040777
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C. K. Yong, C. M. Lim, M. Plumbley, D. Beighton, R. Davidson. Identification of dental bacteria using statistical and neural approaches. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP '02), volume 2, pp606-610, 2002.
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2001

S. A. Abdallah and M. D. Plumbley. If the independent components of natural images are edges, what are the independent components of natural sounds? In Proceedings of the International Conference on Independent Component Analysis and Blind Signal Separation (ICA2001), San Diego, California, December 9-13, 2001. Pages 534-539, 2001.
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S. A. Abdallah and M. D. Plumbley. Sparse coding of music signals. Preprint.
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M. D. Plumbley. Adaptive Lateral Inhibition for Non-negative ICA. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Independent Component Analysis and Blind Signal Separation (ICA2001), San Diego, California, December 9-13, 2001. Pages 516-521, 2001.
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M. D. Plumbley, S. A. Abdallah, J. P. Bello, M. E. Davies, J. Klingseisen, G. Monti and M. B. Sandler. ICA and Related Models Applied to Audio Analysis and Separation. In Proceedings of the Fourth International ICSC Symposium on Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems for Industry, Paisley, Scotland, United Kingdom June 26 - 29, 2001.
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2000

I. Johnson and M. D. Plumbley. On-line connectionist Q-learning produces unreliable performance with a synonym finding task. Proceedings of the IEEE-INNS-ENNS International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN'2000), Como, Italy 24-27 July 2000, vol. 3, pp. 451-456.
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J. Klingseisen and M. D. Plumbley. Towards musical instrument separation using multiple-cause neural networks. Proceedings of the International Workshop on Independent Component Analysis and Blind Signal Separation, (ICA'2000), 19-22 June 2000, Helsinki, Finland, pages 447-452.
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M. D. Plumbley. Information density and cortical magnification factors. In R. Baddeley, P. Hancock and P. Foldiak, editors, Information Theory and the Brain, Chapter 17, pages 305-317, 2000. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
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E. K. Tzamali, M. D. Plumbley and S. A. Velastin. Motion estimation for crowd analysis using a hierarchical Bayesian approach. Unpublished manuscript, 2000.
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C. K. Yong, M. D. Plumbley and D. Beighton. Enhancing Rapid Decision-making and Identification of Dental Bacteria Using Statistical and Neural Approaches. Unpublished manuscript, 2000.
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1999

S. Abdallah and M. D. Plumbley. Unsupervised Learning in Neural Networks for Auditory Perception and Music Cognition. Cambridge Music Processing Colloquium, Cambridge, England, 30 Sept 1999.
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I. Johnson and M. D. Plumbley. Finding Synonyms in a Regular Language using Reinforcement Learning. Technical Report No 11, Department of Electronic Engineering, King's College London, 1999.
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J. Klingseisen and M. D. Plumbley. Experiments on Musical Instrument Separation using Multiple-Cause Models. Cambridge Music Processing Colloquium, Cambridge, England, 30 Sept 1999.
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J. Orwell and M. D. Plumbley. Maximizing information about a noisy signal with a single non-linear neuron. In Proceedings of ICANN'99, Edinburgh, Sept. 1999, pages 581-586.
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M. D. Plumbley. Do cortical maps adapt to optimize information density? Network: Computation in Neural Systems, 10 pp. 41-58, 1999.
doi:10.1088/0954-898X/10/1/003
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C. K. Yong, M. D. Plumbley and D. Beighton. Identification of Dental Bacteria using Multilayer Perceptron Neural Networks. Unpublished manuscript, 1999.
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1997

M. D. Plumbley. Towards an information density measure for neural feature maps. In Proceedings of the 1996 NEuroNet Workshop on Independent and Principal Component Analysis Methods in Image Analysis and Video Processing, Thessaloniki, Greece, 1997.
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M. D. Plumbley. Magnification in neural information channel maps. In H.-J. Zimmerman, editor, Proceedings the 5th European Congress on Intelligent Techniques and Soft Computing, EUFIT'97, volume 1, pages 359-363. ELITE Foundation, Aachen, Germany, 1997. Invited Lecture.
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M. D. Plumbley. Information-theoretic approaches to neural network learning. In A. Browne, editor, Neural Network Perspectives on Cognition and Adaptive Robotics, chapter 4, pages 72-90. Institute of Physics Publishing, Bristol, UK, 1997.
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M. D. Plumbley. Communications and neural networks: Theory and practice. In International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP'97), pages I-135 - I-138. IEEE, April 1997.
doi:10.1109/ICASSP.1997.599571
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K. C. Tsui and M. D. Plumbley. A new hillclimber for classifier systems. In Proceedings of IEE/IEEE Conference on Genetic Algorithms in Engineering Systems: Innovations and Applications (GALESIA'97), 1-4 September, Glasgow, 1997.
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K. C. Tsui and M. D. Plumbley. A genetic-based adaptive hillclimber. In H.-J. Zimmerman, editor, Proceedings the 5th European Congress on Intelligent Techniques and Soft Computing, EUFIT'97, volume 1, pages 799-803. ELITE Foundation, Aachen, Germany, 1997.

K. C. Tsui and M. D. Plumbley. Designing neural networks using a genetic rule-based system. In Proceedings of 2nd On-Line World Conference on Soft Computing (WSC2). Springer-Verlag, London, 23-27 June 1997. Held online at URL http://www.zen.co.uk/cim.inst/wsc2/.

1996

S. Becker and M. Plumbley. Unsupervised neural network learning procedures for feature extraction and classification. Journal of Applied Intelligence, 6 pp. 185-203, 1996.
doi:10.1007/BF00126625
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M. D. Plumbley. Information processing in negative feedback neural networks. Network: Computation in Neural Systems, 7 no. 2 pp. 301-305, 1996.
doi:10.1088/0954-898X/7/2/010
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K. C. Tsui, B. Azvine, and M. Plumbley. The roles of neural and evolutionary computing in intelligent software systems. BT Technology Journal, 14 no. 4 pp. 46-54, October 1996.

1995

K. Althöfer, D. A. Fraser, G. Bugmann, and M. D. Plumbley. Asymmetric-B-Splines for the fast calculation of C-Space patterns of robot arms. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN'95), Paris, France, volume 2, pages 387-392. EC2 & Cie, Paris, France, 1995.

T. G. Clarkson, J. Hobday, M. D. Plumbley, and B. Schuermann. Industrial activity within NEuroNet. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks ICANN'95, Paris, France, Oct 9-13, 1995, volume Industrial Conference Session 1: Neural Network Clubs and Funding Programmes. EC2 & Cie, Paris, France, 9-13 October 1995.

M. D. Plumbley. Lyapunov functions for convergence of principal component algorithms. Neural Networks, 8 pp. 11-23, 1995.
doi:10.1016/0893-6080(95)91644-9
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K. C. Tsui and M. D. Plumbley. An empirical study of two approaches to automated pRAM network design. In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, ISANN'95, Taiwan, ROC, 10-12 December 1995.
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1994

M. D. Plumbley. A squared-variance principal subspace network. In M. Marianaro and P. G. Morasso, editors, Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN'94, Sorrento, Italy, pages 1079-1082. Springer-Verlag, London, 1994.
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M. D. Plumbley. Analysis of an unsupervised indirect feedback network. In M. Marianaro and P. G. Morasso, editors, Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN'94, Sorrento, Italy, pages 397-400. Springer-Verlag, London, 1994.
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M. D. Plumbley. Towards optimal learning from very small data sets. Technical Report TR94-09, Department of Computer Science, King's College London, UK, 1994.
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M. D. Plumbley. A subspace network that determines its own output dimension. Technical Report TR94-08, Department of Computer Science, King's College London, UK, 1994.
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M. D. Plumbley. A network which performs orthonormalized principal subspace extraction. Technical Report 94-06, Department of Computer Science, King's College London, UK, 1994.
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1993

M. D. Plumbley. Efficient information transfer and anti-Hebbian neural networks. Neural Networks, 6 pp. 823-833, 1993.
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M. D. Plumbley. Minimization of information loss through neural network learning. Neural Network World, 3 no. 5 pp. 565-575, 1993.
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M. D. Plumbley. A Hebbian/anti-Hebbian network which optimizes information capacity by orthonormalizing the principal subspace. In Proceedings of the IEE Artificial Neural Networks Conference, ANN-93, Brighton, UK, pages 86-90, 1993.
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M. D. Plumbley. Approximating optimal information transmission using local Hebbian algorithms in a double feedback loop. In S. Gielen and B. Kappen, editors, Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN'93, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pages 435-440. Springer-Verlag, London, 1993.
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M. D. Plumbley. Information theory and neural network learning algorithms. In G. Orchard, editor, Neural Computing Research and Applications: Proceedings of the second Irish Neural Networks Conference, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 25-26 June 1992, pages 145-155. Institute of Physics Publishing, Bristol, UK, 1993.
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G. Robbins, C. Hughes, M. D. Plumbley, R. W. Prager, and F. Fallside. GANNET: Generation and adaptation of neural networks using evolutionary techniques. Neural Computing and Applications, 1 no. 1 pp. 23-31, 1993.

J. G. Taylor and M. D. Plumbley. Information theory and neural networks. In J. G. Taylor, editor, Mathematical Approaches to Neural Networks, pages 307-340. Elsevier Science Publishers, The Netherlands, 1993.
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1992

G. Bugmann, P. Sojka, M. Reiss, M. D. Plumbley, and J. G. Taylor. Direct approaches to improving the robustness of multilayer neural networks. In I. Aleksander and J. Taylor, editors, Artificial Neural Networks 2: Proceedings of ICANN'92, Brighton, UK, September 4-7, pages 1063-1066. North-Holland, 1992.

1991

M. D. Plumbley. On information theory and unsupervised neural networks. Technical Report CUED/F-INFENG/TR.78, Cambridge University Engineering Department, UK, 1991. (Technical Report version of my PhD thesis: M. D. Plumbley. An Information-Theoretic Approach to Unsupervised Connectionist Models. Cambridge University Engineering Department, UK, May 1991.)
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M. D. Plumbley. Genetic algorithms and neural networks for speech processing. In Proceedings of Voice Systems Worldwide '91, London, June 1991, pages 134-138. Media Dimensions, 1991.

M. D. Plumbley and F. Fallside. The effect of receptor signal-to-noise levels on optimal filtering in a sensory system. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP-91, volume 4, pages 2321-2324, May 1991.

M. D. Plumbley. NNSIM neural network simulator software for Unix and Transputer systems. Cambridge University Engineering Department, 1991. (Software).

M. D. Plumbley. NNSIM: A neural net simulator for GANNET. GANNET Report GANNET/CUED/WP2000/91/4, Cambridge University Engineering Department, UK, 1991.

1990

M. D. Plumbley. A comparison of some neural net languages. GANNET Report GANNET/CUED/WP2000/91/3, Cambridge University Engineering Department, UK, 1990.

M. D. Plumbley. A parameterisation of error back propagation networks. GANNET Report GANNET/CUED/WP2000/91/2, Cambridge University Engineering Department, UK, 1990.

M. D. Plumbley. GANNET MLP job farm: Version 0. GANNET Report GANNET/CUED/WP2000/91/1, Cambridge University Engineering Department, UK, 1990.

1989

M. D. Plumbley and F. Fallside. Sensory adaptation: An information-theoretic viewpoint. In Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IJCNN-89, volume II, page 598, 1989.

1988

M. D. Plumbley and F. Fallside. An information-theoretic approach to unsupervised connectionist models. Technical Report CUED/F-INFENG/TR.7, Cambridge University Engineering Department, 1988.

M. D. Plumbley and F. Fallside. An information-theoretic approach to unsupervised connectionist models. In David Touretzky, Geoffrey Hinton, and Terrence Sejnowski, editors, Proceedings of the 1988 Connectionist Models Summer School, pages 239-245. Morgan-Kaufmann, San Mateo, CA., 1988.

1987

M. D. Plumbley. Cathode ray tube displays. European Patent No. 87311189.2- (GB 8630556), 22 December 1987.

1984

A. C. Dickens, M. D. Plumbley, and L. Whewell. The Spectrum Advanced User Guide. Adder Publishing, Cambridge, UK, 1984.

M. D. Plumbley. The Basic ROM User Guide for the BBC Microcomputer and Acorn Electron. Adder Publishing, Cambridge, UK, 1984.

M. Plumbley. Atom ROM routines. Acorn User, 21 pp. 123-130 (5 pages), April 1984.