Recent Publications

To appear

X. Wen and M. Sandler, Adaptive Spectrogram using non-orthogonal windowed Fourier Frames, IET Proc. Signal Processing, accepted.

2008

M. Levy and M. Sandler, Structural Segmentation of Musical Audio by Constrained Clustering, IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech and Language Processing, Special Issue on Music Information Retrieval, 16(2), 318 - 326, Feb. 2008.
doi: 10.1109/TASL.2007.910781

2007

E.Ravelli, J-P. Bello& M.Sandler, Automatic rhythm modification of drum loops, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 228-231, April, 2007.

Gyorgy Fazekas, Mark Sandler: Intelligent Editing of Studio Recordings with the help of Automatic Music Structure Extraction Presented at the 122nd AES Convention, 2007 May 5-8, Vienna

G.Fazekas &M.Sandler, 123rd AES Convention, New York, October 2007

K.Jacobson & M.Sandler, Towards Textual Annotation of Rhythmic Style in Electronic Dance Music 123rd AES Convention, New York, October 2007

M. Levy & M. Sandler, A semantic space for music derived from social tags, ISMIR 2007

K. Noland, M. Levy & M. Sandler, 'A comparison of timbral and harmonic music segmentation algorithms', Proc. ICASSP 2007

K. Noland and M. Sandler, Signal Processing Parameters for Tonality Estimation, Proceedings of AES 122nd Convention, Vienna, 2007

Y. Raimond, S. Abdallah, M. Sandler, F. Giasson The Music Ontology ISMIR 2007

Y.Raimond,C.Sutton & M.Sandler, A distributed data-space for music related information, WMS ’07, ACM Multimedia, International Workshop on Multimedia Semantics, Augsburg, Germany, Sept 2007

Y.Raimond & M.Sandler, 123rd AES Convention, New York, October 2007

M. Sandler & M. Levy, 'Signal-based music searching and browsing', Proc. ICCE 2007

R.Stewart & M.Sandler, 123rd AES Convention, New York, October 2007

Wen X. and M. Sandler, "Calculation of radix-2 discrete multiresolution Fourier transform," Signal Processing, vol. 87 no.10, 2007, pp.2455-2460.

Wen X. and M. Sandler, “New audio editor functionality using harmonic sinusoids,” Proc. AES 122nd Convention, Vienna, 2007.

Wen X. and M. Sandler, Sinusoid modeling in a harmonic context, Proc. DAFx'07, Bordeaux, 2007.

2006

S Abdallah, A Markov-Chain Monte-Carlo Approach to Musical Audio Segmentation Proc. ICASSP 2006

Samer Abdallah, Mark Sandler, Christophe Rhodes and Michael Casey, Using duration models to reduce fragmentation in audio segmentation, Machine Learning: Special Issue on Machine Learning in and for Music, Volume 65, Numbers 2-3 / December, 2006, ISSN0885-6125 (Print) 1573-0565 (Online), p 485 – 515

J. P. Bello, L. Daudet & M. B. Sandler, Automatic piano transcription using frequency and time-domain information, IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech and Language Processing, Vol. 14, No. 6, Nov. 2006, p2242-2251

Bello , J.P., Ravelli, E. and Sandler, M., Drum Sound Analysis for the Manipulation of Rhythm in Drum Loops Proc. ICASSP 2006

D.Black & M.Sandler, A Voicing Decision Driven Forward Error Correction Scheme For Voice Over IP Applications Proc. EUSIPCO 2006

Cannam, C., Landone, C., Sandler, M. and Bello , J.P. The Sonic Visualiser: A Visualisation Platform for Semantic Descriptors from Musical Signals. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR-06). Victoria, Canada. October 2006.

N.Chetry & M.Sandler, Linear Predictive Models for Musical Instrument Identification Proc. ICASSP 2006

C. Harte & M. Sandler, Detecting Harmonic Change In Musical Audio Proc.ACM Multimedia, Santa Barbara, October 2006

M.Levy & M.Sandler, Extraction of High-Level Musical Structure from Audio Data and its Application to Thumbnail Generation, Proc. ICASSP 2006

M. Levy & M. Sandler, Application of Segmentation and Thumbnailing to Music Browsing and Searching, AES 120th Convention 2006.

M. Levy & M.Sandler, New methods in structural segmentation of musical audio Proc. Eusipco 2006

M. Levy & M. Sandler, Lightweight measures for timbral similarity of musical audio Proc.ACM Multimedia, Santa Barbara, October 2006

A.Nesbit, M.Davies, M.Plumbley and M.Sandler Source Extraction from Two-Channel Mixtures by Joint Cosine Packet Analysis Proc. EUSIPCO 2006

K.Noland and M. Sandler,Key Estimation Using a hidden Markov Model, Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR-06). Victoria, Canada. October 2006.

Yves Raimond, Samer A. Abdallah, Mark Sandler and Mounia Lalmas, A Scalable Framework for Multimedia Knowledge Management in Semantic Multimedia, Proceedings of the First International Conference on Semantics and Digital Media Technologies, SAMT 2006, Athens, Greece, December 6-8, 2006. Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, ISBN 978-3-540-49335-8, p. 11-25

Y.Raimond, S. Abdallah & M. Sandler An ontology-based approach to information management for music analysis systems, Proceedings of the 120th AES convention, 2006

Y. Raimond, S. Abdallah, M. Sandler and M. Lalmas, A Scalable Framework for Multimedia Knowledge Management in Semantic Multimedia, Proceedings of the First International Conference on Semantics and Digital Media Technologies, SAMT 2006, Athens, Greece, December 6-8, 2006. Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, ISBN 978-3-540-49335-8, p. 11-25

Y.Raimond & M.Sandler, Sosornet

Mark Sandler, Interacting with Digital Music, Philips Symposium on Intelligent Applications (SOIA'06), Keynote Talk, December 6 2006

Wen X. and M. Sandler, “Error compensation in modeling time-varying sinusoids,” in Proc. DAFx’06, Montreal, 2006.

2005

Samer Abdallah, Katy Noland, Mark Sandler, Michael Casey & Christophe Rhodes: Theory and Evaluation of a Bayesian Music Structure Extractor (pp. 420-425) Proc. 6th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval, ISMIR 2005.

J-J. Aucouturier, F.Pachet & M.Sandler, The Way it Sounds: Timbre Models for analysis and retrieval of polyphonic music signals, IEEE Trans. Multimedia, Vol 7(6):1028-1035 December 2005

Bello, J.P, L. Daudet, S. Abdallah, C. Duxbury, M. Davies and M.B. Sandler, A tutorial on onset detection n music signals, IEEE Trans. Speech & Audio Processing, Volume 13, Issue 5, Part 2, Sept. 2005 Page(s):1035 – 1047

N. Chetry & M. Sandler, Musical Instrument Identification using LSF and K-means, 118th AES Convention, Barcelona, 29 May 2005

Nicolas Chetry, Michael Davies and Mark Sandler, Identification of monophonic instrument recordings using k-means and support vector machines, 1st Digital Music Research Network conference, Glasgow, July 2005

C. Harte & M. Sandler, Automatic chord identification using a quantised chromagram, 118th AES Convention, Barcelona, 29 May 2005

Christopher Harte, Mark Sandler, Samer Abdallah & Emilia Gómez: Symbolic Representation of Musical Chords: A Proposed Syntax for Text Annotations (pp. 66-71), Proc. 6th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval, ISMIR 2005.

P. Herrera, J. Bello, G. Widmer, M. Sandler, O. Celma, F. Vignoli, E. Pampalk, P. Cano, S. Pauws, and X. Serra, “Simac: Semantic interaction with music audio contents,” in Proceedings of the 2nd European Workshop on the Integration of Knowledge, Semantic and Digital Media Technologies. Savoy Place, London., 2005.

Emmanuel Ravelli, Juan Pablo Bello and Mark Sandler, Fast implementation for non-linear time-scaling of stereo signals Proc 8th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects, DAFx 2005

D. Reefman, J. Reiss, E. Janssen and M. Sandler, Description of limit cycles in Sigma Delta Modulators, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, Volume 52, Issue 6, p.1211 – 1223 (2005)

Mark Sandler & Dawn Black, Scalable Audio coding for Compression and Loss Resilient Streaming, IEE Proc. VIS, Vol. 153, No. 3, June 2006, pp331-339

Wen Xue & M. Sandler, Transcribing piano recordings using signal novelty, 118th AES Convention, Barcelona, 29 May 2005

Wen Xue & Sandler M.: A Partial Searching Algorithm and Its Application for Polyphonic Music Transcription. (pp. 690-695) Proc. 6th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval, ISMIR 2005.

2004

Bello, J.P. Duxbury, C. Davies, M. & Sandler, M., On the use of phase and energy for musical onset detection in complex domain, IEEE Sig. Proc. Letters, Vol. 11, No. 6, June 2004, pp553-556

J. P. Bello and M. Sandler. Centre for Digital Music: Studio report, ICMC'04, Miami, USA. Nov. 2004

L. Daudet & M.Sandler, MDCT analysis of sinusoids: exact results and applications to coding artefacts reduction, IEEE Trans Speech and Audio Processing, Vol 12, No. 3 May 2004, pp 302- 312.

C. Duxbury, J. P. Bello, M. Sandler and M. Davies. A comparison between fixed and multiresolution analysis for onset detection in musical signals, DAFx'04, Naples, Italy. October 2004

C. Duxbury, N. Chetry, M. Sandler and M. E. Davies, An efficient two-stage implementation of Harmonic Matching Pursuit, EUSIPCO 04

A. Paul-Taiwo, M. Sandler & M. Davies, Feature Extractors for Music Information Retrieval: Noise Robustness, 116th Convention of the Audio Engineering Society, Berlin, May 8-11, 2004

D. Reefman, J. Reiss, E. Jannsen & M. Sandler, Description of Limit Cycles in Feedback Sigma Delta Modulators, 117th Convention of the Audio Engineering Society, San Francisco, Oct. 28-31, 2004

J. Reiss & M. Sandler, The harmonic content of a limit cycle in a DSD bitstream, 116th Convention of the Audio Engineering Society, Berlin, May 8-11, 2004.

J. D. Reiss and M. Sandler, "Digital audio effects applied directly on a DSD bitstream," Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFX-04), Napoli, Italy, 2004.

J. D. Reiss and M. Sandler, "Audio Issues In MIR Evaluation," Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval, Barcelona, Spain, pp. 8, 2004.

M. Sandler & D. Black, Loss Resilient Scalable Audio Compression and Streaming, EWIMT, November 2004.

2003

Bello, J.P. and Sandler, M. Phase-based note onset detection for music signals. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP-03), Hong Kong. April 6-10, 2003.

J.P.Bello & M. Sandler, Phase-based note onset detection for music signals," Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP-03)", 2003.

D.Black & M.Sandler, Estimation of short term prediction parameters under lossy conditions, Proc. Of the ISSPIT International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, 2003.

P.Brossier, M.Sandler & M.Plumbley", Real-time object based coding, Proc of the 114th Convention of the Audio Engineering Society,2003.

P.Brossier, M.Sandler & M.Plumbley", Matching Live sources with Physical Models, Proc of the 6th DAFx workshop, 2003, 305-7.

Duxbury, C., Bello, J.P., Davies, M. and Sandler, M. A combined phase and amplitude based approach to onset detection for audio segmentation. In Proceedings of the 4th European Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS-03), London, UK. April 9-11, 2003.

C. Duxbury, J. P. Bello, M. Davies and M. Sandler",Complex Domain Onset Detection For Musical Signals,Proc. Digital Audio Effects Conference (DAFX03),2003

C. Duxbury, M. Sandler, M.E. Davies, "Temporal Segmentation and Pre-analysis for Non-linear Time-scaling of Audio", Proc. AES 114th Convention in Amsterdam Mar 2003

J.Pickens, J.P. Bello, G.Monti, M.Sandler, T. Crawford, M.Dovey & D. Byrd, Polyphonic Score Retrieval using Polyphonic Audio Queries: A Harmonic Modeling Approach, Journal of New Music Research, 2003,Vol. 32, Number 2, 223-236.

D. Reefman, J.Reiss, E.JAnssen & M.Sandler",Stability Analysis of Limit Cycles in High Order Sigma Delta Modulators,115th Convention of Audio Engineering Society, 2003.

J.Reiss, F.Alin, M.Sandler & B.Robert, Analysis of the nonlinear dynamics of the Electric Step Motor, IEEE ICIT (International Conference on Industrial Technology) 2003.

J. D. Reiss, F. Alin, M. Sandler et al.", Flip Phenomena and Co-existing attractors in an incremental actuator, IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT 03), 2003.

J.Reiss & M.Sandler,Nonlinear Time Series Analysis of Musical Signals,6th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects DAFx03,2003.

J.Reiss & M.Sandler,The Pitfalls in Benchmarking and Evaluation of Music Information Retrieval Systems,26th International ACM SIGIR Conference, 2003, invited

J.Reiss & M.Sandler, Dither and Noise Modulation in Sigma Delta Modulators,115th Convention of Audio Engineering Society, 2003.

J.Reiss & M.Sandler,Issues in Audio: Representations and File Formats for Music Digital Libraries ,4th Annual International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR2003), 2003, invited.

J. Reiss and M. Sandler “Optimized kd-tree indexing of multimedia data” presented at 4th European Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS) 2003

J. Reiss and M. Sandler “They Exist: Limit Cycles in High Order Sigma Delta Modulators”, 114th Convention of the Audio Engineering Society, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, March 22-25, 2003.

2002

Juan Pablo Bello-Correa, Laurent Daudet & Mark Sandler , Time-domain polyphonic piano transcription using a self-generating database, 112th Convention of the Audio Engineering Society, Munich, May 2002.

D. Darlington, L. Daudet & M. Sandler, Linear Filtering in the Wavelet Domain, Second International Workshop on Spectral Methods and Multirate Signal Processing (SMMSP 2002), Toulouse, France, August 2002

D. Darlington, L. Daudet & M. Sandler, Implementation of Digital Audio Effects on wavelet-coded signals, 5th International Workshop on Digital Audio Effects, DAFx 02,

L.Daudet, M.Sandler and B.Torresani, Audio representations on overcomplete sets, DSP 2002, Santorini, Greece, July 2002

C. Duxbury, M.Davies & M.Sandler, A Hybrid Approach to Musical Note Onset Detection, 5th International Workshop on Digital Audio Effects, DAFx 02, Hamburg, Sept 26-8, 2002

Chris Duxbury, Mike Davies and Mark Sandler, Improved Time-Scaling of Musical Audio using Phase Locking of Transients, 112th Convention of the Audio Engineering Society, Munich, May 2002.

F.Marvasti & M.Sandler, “Applications of Nonuniform Sampling to nonuniform Modulation, A/D and D/A Techniques” in Nonuniform Sampling, ed. F.Marvasti, Plenum Press, 2002

Giuliano Monti and Mark Sandler, Pitch Locking Monophonic Music Analysis, 112th Convention of the Audio Engineering Society, Munich, May 2002.

G. Monti & M.Sandler, Automatic Polyphonic Piano Note Extraction using Fuzzy Logic in a Blackboard System 5th International Workshop on Digital Audio Effects, DAFx 02, Hamburg, Sept 26-8, 2002

J. Pickens, J. P. Bello, T. Crawford, M. Dovey, G. Monti and M. Sandler: Polyphonic Score Retrieval Using Polyphonic Audio Queries: A Harmonic Modeling Approach, 3rd International Conference on Music Information Retrieval, ISMIR 2002, IRCAM Paris, Oct. 12-17 2002

M.D.Plumbley, S.A.Abdallah, J.P.Bello, M.E.Davies, G.Monti & M.Sandler, Automatic Music Transcription and Audio Source Separation, Cybernetics and Systems, 33(6), pp603-627, 2002

J. Reiss, D. Reefman, E. Janssen and M. B. Sandler, Improved compression of DSD for Super Audio CD, 112th Convention of the Audio Engineering Society, Munich, May 2002.

J.Reiss & M.Sandler, Beyond Recall and Precision: A full framework for MIR system evaluation, 3rd International Conference on Music Information Retrieval, ISMIR 2002

J.Reiss & M.Sandler, Benchmarking Music Information Retrieval Systems, Workshop on the Creation of Standardised Test Collections, Tasks and Metrics for Music Information Rerieval and Music Digital Library Evaluation, Joint ACM/IEEE Conference on Digital Libraries, Portland, OR, 14-18 July 2002. http://music-ir.org/JCDL_Workshop_Info.html

Mark Sandler, “Scalable Audio Compression”, EPSRC Theme Day, Institute of Acoustics Conference, Salford, 26 March 2002.

Mark Sandler, “Internet Signal Processing: a new paradigm”, IEEE ICASSP, Orlando, USA, May 2002.

M.Sandler, Music analysis and recognition, MPCA workshop, Leuven Belgium, 15/11/02

M.Sandler & U.Zoelzer, “Bitstream Signal Processing” in DAFx: Digital Audio Effects, ed. U.Zoelzer, Wiley, 2002.

2001

B. Leslie & M. Sandler, Packet Loss Resilient, Scalable Audio Compression and Streaming for IP Networks, 2nd International Conference on 3G Mobile Communication Technologies, pp 119-123, March 2001

C. Landone & M. Sandler, 110th Convention of Audio Engineering Society, Amsterdam, May 2001

J. Reiss, N. Mitionides & M. Sandler, Computation of Generalized Mutual Information from Multichannel Audio Data, 110th Convention of Audio Engineering Society, Amsterdam, May 2001

M.D. Plumbley, S.A. Abdallah, J.P. Bello, M.E. Davies, J. Klingseisen, G. Monti & M.B. Sandler, ICA and Related Models Applied to Audio Analysis and Separation, Fourth International ICSC Symposium on Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems for Industry, 2001

J. Reiss & M. Sandler, Multibit Chaotic sigma delta modulation, , NDES, Delft, Netherlands, June 2001

J. Reiss & M. Sandler, Efficient compression of oversampled one-bit audio signals, 111th Convention of Audio Engineering Society, New York, November 2001

C. Duxbury M.E. Davies & M.B. Sandler, Separation Of Transient Information In Musical Audio Using Multiresolution Analysis Techniques, 4th International Workshop on Digital Audio Effects, DAFx01, Limerick , December 2001

2000

G. Monti & M. Sandler, Monophonic Transcription with Autocorrelation, DAFx 2000, 2000

M. Sandler, LTI Systems in the Wavelet Domain, IEE Colloquium on Time-Scale and Time-Frequency Techniques, February 2000

J.P. Bello-Correa, G. Monti & M. Sandler, An Implementation of Automatic Transcription of Monophonic Music with a Blackboard System, Irish Signals Circuits and Systems Conference 2000, , Dublin, June 2000

M. Sandler, Digital Music in the 21st Century (invited), IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics, Los Angeles, Jun-00, June 2000

M. Sandler, Digital Amplification for Consumer Audio (invited), IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics, Los Angeles, Jun-00, , June 2000

C. Landone & M. Sandler, Application of Binaural Processing to Surround Sound Reproduction in Large Spaces (invited), IEEE ISCAS 2000, Geneva, June 2000

P. Midya, M. Miller & M. Sandler, Integral Noise Shaping for Quantization of Pulse Width Modulation, 108th AES Convention Los Angeles, September 2000

D. Bendor & M. Sandler, Time Domain Extraction of Vibrato from Monophonic Instruments, ISMIR 2000, Plymouth, MA, 23-25 Oct 2000, October 2000