Research Seminars
Research Seminars usually take place in Rooms 105, 160 or 203, Electronic Engineering Department, Mile End Road, E1 4NS.
The seminars
are open to everyone: please feel free to attend.
Building Access: The Engineering Building is under access control. To gain entry,
please call 020 7882 7986 (C4DM Seminars) or 020 7882 5346 (Other
seminars).
Forthcoming Seminars and Events
For forthcoming C4DM Seminars see: Centre
for Digital Music Seminars.
Past seminars
and events
2009
Wednesday 12 August 2009, 14:00, Room 105
Making
music synchronization more accurate and chroma features more robust
to timbre changes
Sebastian Ewert,
Bonn University
Wednesday 29 July 2009, 14:00, Room 105
Intelligence?
It is already in the sound!
Vincent Verfaille
Tuesday 2 June 2009, 15:00, Room 105
Less
is more: sparse representations for audio
Laurent Daudet,
Musical Acoustics Group, D'Alembert Institute for Mechanical Engineering,
University Pierre-and-Marie-Curie - Paris 6
Wednesday 20 May 2009, 15:00, Room 105
Recovering
some statistical information of Room Impulse Responses using Matching
Pursuit
Guillaume Defrance, Institut
Jean Le Rond d'Alembert
Wednesday 13 May 2009, 14:00, Room 105
Making
Sense of Music Therapy - Can Computational Music Analysis Help?
Elaine Streeter, Queen
Mary University of London
Wednesday 6 May 2009, 15:00, Room 105
Modeling
Expression: An Empirical Analysis of Recordings of Brahms’ Cello
Sonatas
Ju-Lee Hong Goldsmiths,
University of London
Wednesday 22 April 2009, 16:00
RjDj
Michael Breidenbruecker and Andy Farnell
Tuesday 25 March 2009, 16:00, Room 105
What's
in your musical DNA?
Antony Pitts,
Royal Academy of Music
Wednesday 25 Feburary 2009, 14:00, Room 105
BodyScape
Di Mainstone
Tuesday 24 February 2009, 14:45, Room 105
Blind
Source Separation for Real-World Speech Applications
Hiroshi Saruwatari,
Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Wednesday 11 February 2009, 14:00, Room 105
Exploration
and Mapping of Sound Synthesis Feature Vector Space
Martin Roth and Matthew Yee-King
Friday 30 January 2009, 15:00, Room 105
The
Long Tail or the Long Fail of Music Recommendation?
Oscar Celma,
Music Technology Group (MTG), Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona
(Spain)
Wednesday 28 January 2009, 14:00, Room 105
SuperCollider user-group meeting
For details, see this Facebook
page [login required] or contact Dan Stowell.
Tuesday 27 January 2009, 14:45, Room 105
Adaptive
Learning in a World of Projections
Prof. Sergios Theodoridis,
Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications University of Athens,
Greece. (Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE SPS)
Wednesday 21 January 2009, 16:00, Room 105
Towards
an Embodied Music Experience - how music and motion can lead to
innovative applications
Dr. Michiel Demey,
Institute for Psychoacoustics and Electronic Music Ghent University,
Belgium
Monday 19 January 2009, 16:15, Room 105
MixCloud
goals: Enhancing the Personalisation and Discovery of Radio Content
Nikhil Shah,
MixCloud Ltd
2008
18 October 2008
Workshop
on Multi-camera and Multi-modal Sensor Fusion: Algorithms and Applications
(in conjunction with the 10th European Conference on Computer Vision - ECCV 2008)
Venue: Marseille, France
(Co-Chaired by Andrea Cavallaro, Queen Mary, University of London)
Monday 13 October 2008, 14:00, Room 203 [** Note time and room **]
AXIS
- an Acquisition eXchange Indexing Structuration for audio content
Michel Merten and Philippe
Scohy, Memnon Archiving Services
Tuesday 7 October 2008, 15:00, Room 105
Microstructure
Bias and Multiscale Inference
Prof Sofia Olhede,
Department of Statistical Science, University College London
Monday 6 October 2008, 16:00, Room 105
The
Geometry of Compressed Sensing: A Tale of Three Polytopes
Jared Tanner, School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh
Thursday 31 July 2008, 16:00, Room 105
Speech
Separation in Cell Phones
Ahmed H. Tewfik (Fellow IEEE), University of
Minnesota,
USA
29 July - 1 Aug 2008
VIE2008:
5th IET Visual Information Engineering Conference
Venue: Xi'an, China
(Co-Chaired by Ebroul Izquierdo, Queen Mary, University of London)
Wednesday 16 July 2008, 16:00, Room 105
Social
music meets the Semantic Web
Alexandre Passant, LaLIC, Université Paris-Sorbonne,
France
Monday 30 June 2008, 14:00, Room 105
Active
Music Listening Interfaces Based on Music-Understanding Technologies
Masataka Goto,
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
(AIST), Japan
18-20 June 2008
CBMI-2008:
6th International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing
Venue: Mile End
9-11 June 2008
Fundamentals of System Design, Implementation, and Optimization
[3-Day Meyer Lecture, hosted by Centre for Digital Music and London Student Section
of the Audio Engineering Society]
Venue: Mile End
Free, but registration is required:
see http://meyersound.com/education/
Thursday 5 June 2008, 19:00 - 21:00
Sorted
Sounds
The Centre for Digital Music (C4DM) showcases
our work at the Dana Centre in the Science Museum
Free, but must pre-book and be over 18 [More
information]
Wednesday 4 June 2008, 16:00, Room 105
Towards
Mobile Music Edutainment: A Multimedia Approach
Ye Wang,
National University of Singapore
Monday 19 May 2008, 14:30, Room 105
Macro
Sound
Sinan Bökesoy,
Université Paris VIII, France
Wednesday 14 May 2008, 16:00, Room CS338 (Computer Science Department)
Simultaneous
estimation of chords, key and downbeats from an audio file
Hélène Papadopoulos,
IRCAM, Paris, France
Tuesday 29 April 2008, 16:00, Room 105
The
OYEZ Project: How sport empowered the world's largest group spoken-word
corpus
Professor Jerry Goldman,
Director of the Oyez Project and Professor of Political Science at
Northwestern University, USA
Wednesday 9 April 2008, 4:00pm, Room 105
Integrating
Context and Content to Search for Music via Natural Language Queries
Peter Knees,
Department of Computational Perception, Johannes Kepler University
Linz
17-18 March 2008
Loughborough
Antennas and Propagation Conference
Venue: Loughborough University
(Technical Programme organised by Queen Mary, University of London)
Wednesday 27 February 2008, 4:15pm, Room 105
Poolcasting
- a Social Web Radio for Group Customisation
Claudio Baccigalupo,
Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA-CSIC), Barcelona
(Spain)
Thursday 14 February 2008, 4:15pm, Room 105
Gabor
Analysis and Gabor Multipliers with a Musical Signal Processing Perspective
Prof Hans G. Feichtinger,
Numerical Harmonic Analysis Group, University of Vienna, and Leverhulme
Trust Visiting Professor at the University of Edinburgh
2007
18 December 2007
DMRN+2:
Digital Music Research Network One-day Workshop 2007
Venue: Mile End
28 November 2007, 3.30pm - 7.30pm
Postgraduate
Open Evening
Venue: Mile End Campus
Wednesday 28 November, 4:00pm, Room 105
How
Digital Discovery Works: Deciding what to listen to next in a world
of infinite choice
David Jennings,
Director of DJ Alchemi Ltd
Friday 16 November 2007, 11:30am [Note time], Room 105
Three
new methods for MEG/EEG signal analysis and denoising
Alain de Cheveigne, "Audition" team,
Department of Cognitive Sciences, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris,
France
Wednesday 14 November 2007, 4:00pm, Room 105
In
Search of the Goosebump Factor - A Blueprint for Emotional Music
Recommenders
Stephan Baumann,
Competence Center Computational Culture (C4), German Research Center
for AI in Kaiserslautern (DFKI)
Tuesday 13 November 2007, 2:30pm, Room 105
Monaural
Acoustical Scene Analysis through Harmonic-Temporal Clustering
of the Power Spectrum
Jonathan Le Roux,
ENS, Paris, France & University of Tokyo, Japan
Monday 5 November, 4:30pm, Room 105
Surround
Perspective
Jeff Levison,
DTS Consultant / Levison Audio
Wednesday 31 October 2007, 4:00pm, Room 105
Digital
Transformation in the Imaging Industry - Impact on Kodak Research
Alan Payne,
Operations Manager & Photographic Projects Manager, Kodak European Research, Cambridge
Wednesday 17 October 2007, 4:00pm, Room 105
A
Loosely Coupled framework for real time music analysis based on
publish/subscribe messaging
John Ibbotson,
IBM, Winchster
Monday 8 October 2007, 4:00pm, Room 105
Designing
a Content-Based Music Search Engine
Doug Turnbull,
University of California, San Diego
9-12 Sept 2007 [Conference]
ICA
2007: 7th International Conference on Independent Component Analysis
and Signal Separation
Venue: Mile End
5-7 Sept 2007 [Conference]
AVSS
2007: IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal
based Surveillance
Venue: Mile End
Tuesday 4 September 2007, 3:30pm, Room 304 [Note unusual room]
Bayes
Optimality in Pattern Recognition: Why pattern recognition algorithms
work, do not work, and can be made to work
Prof. Aleix M. Martinez,
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ohio State University
(OSU)
Tuesday 7 August 2007, 2:00pm, Room 105
Multi-Object
Filtering Techniques for Multi-Target Tracking
Daniel Clark,
Signal Processing Lab, University of Cambridge
Wednesday 1 August 2007, 4:00pm, Room 105
GAD
Signal Processing (GSP): Sinusoidal analysis of signals
Martin Simpson and Jonathan Stuart,
GAD Group Ltd
Wednesday 25 July 2007, 1:00pm, Room 209
Latent
identity variables for face recognition: from distance based methods
to probabilistic inference
Simon Prince,
Department of Computer Science, University College London (UCL)
Wednesday 11 July 2007
Similarity Measurements in Chopin Mazurka Performances
Craig Sapp,
CHARM / Royal Holloway, University of London
25-27 June 2007 [Conference]
31st
AES International Conference: "New
Directions in High Resolution Audio"
Venue: Mile End
Friday 8 June 2007, 4:00-5:00pm, Room 105
Structured
Non-Negative Matrix Factorization
Hans Laurberg,
Aalborg University, Denmark
Thursday 7 June 2007, 4:00-6:00pm, Room 207
IEEE Student Branch Launch Event
For more information, contact Martin Huang (zhijia.huang@elec.qmul.ac.uk)
Wednesday 6 June 2007, 4:00pm, Room 105
A
retrospective look at Greenstone: Lessons from the first decade
David Bainbridge,
University of Waikato, New Zealand.
Friday 1 June 2007, 4:00pm, Room 105
MusicBrainz:
Tearing Down Walled Gardens in the Music Industry
Rob Kaye,
Founder, MusicBrainz; President & Exec Director, MetaBrainz Foundation
Wednesday 30 May 2007, 4:00pm
Performing
Brahms: an analysis of similarities in cello playing styles on
record
Ju-Lee Hong,
Goldsmiths, University of London
Wednesday 9 May 2007, 4:00pm
Magnatune,
an online record label that isn't evil
John Buckman,
founder/owner, Magnatune
Friday 4 May 2007, 3.30pm, Room 105
Vision
for Human-Computer Interaction
Prof
Stefan Winkler, Interactive Multimedia Lab, National University of Singapore (NUS)
Wednesday 2 May 2007, 4:00pm, Room 338, Computer Science Department
Last.fm:
how to organize digital music in a large social network
Norman Casagrande,
Head of Music Research, Last.fm
Wednesday 2 May 2007, 1:45pm , Room 207.
Seven Decades of Microwaves: A Personal View
Prof. Peter Clarricoats,
Research Professor, Queen Mary University of London
Thursday 26 April 2007
Research
Open Day
Venue: The Octagon, Mile End
Wednesday 25 April 2007, 4:00pm [C4DM Seminar]
Introduction
to Audio for Games
Michael Kelly,
Sony Computer Entertainment Europe
Thursday 12 April 2007, 7:00pm [Booking essential]
Future
of Sound Tour 2007
Venue: The Octagon, Mile End
Thursday 22 March 2007, 6:00pm [Booking essential]
Multiple
Futures of Sound
Lecture given by Martyn Ware (Ilustrious
Company)
Venue: Mason Lecture Theatre, Francis Bancroft Building, Mile End
Wednesday 7 March 2007, 4:00pm, Room 105
Towards
Autonomous Agents for Live Computer Music: Realtime Machine Listening
and Interactive Music Systems
Nick Collins (University
of Sussex)
Tuesday 6 March 2007, 4:45pm (4:30pm refreshments), Room 105
First meeting of the London Student Audio
Engineering Society Section
Including talk by Graham Tudball (Technicolor)
on Sound Restoration Techniques.
Wednesday 7 Feburary 2007, 4:00pm
Bayesian
Modelling of Rhythmic Structure and Sequential Monte Carlo Inference
Techniques
Nick Whiteley (University
of Cambridge)
Wednesday 31 January 2007, 4:00pm
The
artificial listener: modelling human perception of sound quality
Francis Rumsey (University
of Surrey)
Wednesday 17 January 2007, 4:00pm
OMRAS2:
Online Music Recognition and Searching 2.0
Mark Sandler (Centre
for Digital Music, Queen Mary, University of London)
2006
 DMRN+1: Digital Music Research Network One-day Workshop 2006
Wed 20 December 2006
[One-day
DMRN workshop]
Wednesday 13 December 2006, 4:00pm
Towards Computational Modelling of Music Performance
Simon Dixon (Austrian
Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, shortly to join
Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary, University of London)
Wednesday 29 November 2006, 4:00pm, Room 105
Locality
Sensitive Hashing for Large-Scale Audio Sequence Similarity
Michael Casey (Goldsmiths
Digital Studios, Department of Computing, Goldsmiths, University
of London)
[co-author: Malcolm Slaney, Yahoo! Research Inc.]
Wednesday 5 July 2006, 2:00pm, Room 105
Scalable
parametric audio coder for Internet audio streaming & multicasting
Juan Carlos Cuevas Martinez,
(Electronics Engineering and Telecommunication Department, University
of Jaen, Spain)
Tuesday 9 May 2006, 4:00pm - 6:00pm, Room 105
Structural
Segmentation of Musical Audio
Mark Levy,
Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary University of London
and
Multi-feature
tracking in a Particle Filter framework
Emilio Maggio, MMV Group, Queen
Mary University of London
Wednesday 10 May 2006, 4:00pm, Room 207
Limitations
of the bag-of-frame approach to the pattern recognition of musical
signals
Jean-Julien Aucouturier,
SOAS, University of London
Wednesday 22 March 2006, 4:00pm, Room 105
Separation
of musical sources and structure from single-channel polyphonic
recordings
Mark Every,
University of Surrey
Monday 20 March 2006, 5:00pm, Room 105
Low
Bitrate Object Coding of Musical Audio Using Bayesian Harmonic
Models
Emmanuel Vincent,
Queen Mary University of London
Monday 20 March 2006, 4:00pm, Room 105
Vector
quantization of images and videos
Marzia Corvaglia,
TLC group, University of Brescia, Italy
Wednesday 15 March 2006, 4:00pm, Room 105
Visual
Representations for Interactive Music Analysis
Martin Gasser,
Austrian Institute for Artificial Intelligence (ÖFAI)
Wednesday 8 March 2006, 4:00pm, Room 105.
How
to Talk About Meter: Psychological and Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Prof. Justin London,
Carleton College, Northfield, MN, USA
Wednesday 1 March 2006, 4:00pm, Room 105.
Sinusoidal
Sound Modeling - Advances and Applications to Time Stretching and
Sound Classification
Sylvain Marchand,
LaBRI Université Bordeaux
Wednesday 8 February 2006, 4.15pm, Room 105
Batch
and online underdetermined source separation using Laplacian Mixture
Models
Dr. Nick Mitianoudis, Imperial
College London
Wednesday 18 January 2006, 4:00pm, Room 105
Computational
Techniques for Music Harmony Analysis
Craig Sapp,
Royal Holloway, University of London
Wednesday 11 January 2006, 4:00pm, Room 105
Studying
musical performance with the help of spectrum analysis
Prof Daniel Leech-Wilkinson & Dr
Renee Timmers, CHARM - Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music, Music Department,
King's College London
2005
Wednesday 21 December 2005
Digital
Music Research: Workshop & Roadmap Launch
Digital Music Research Network Event
Including: One-Day Workshop and
Launch of the DMRN Roadmap for Digital Music Research
Thursday 8 December 2005, 4:00pm, Room 105
CRiSAP:
Creative Research in Sound Arts Practice
Dr Cathy Lane & Dr
Angus Carlyle, LCC, University of the Arts London
Wednesday 7 December 2005, 4:00pm, Room 105
Extracting
several audio sources from stereophonic recordings: some approaches
based on sparsity
Dr. Rémi Gribonval,
IRISA/INRIA, Rennes, France
Wednesday 9 November 2005, 4:00pm, Room 105
Sound
Field Analysis and its Applications
Banu Günel,
University of Surrey
and
Precedence
Effect: An alternative model using Gaussian Mixtures
Hüseyin Hacıhabiboğlu,
University of Surrey
Wednesday 19 October 2005, 4:00pm, Room 105
Audio
Melody Extraction: Current State of the Art
Matija Marolt,
University of Ljubljana
Tuesday 20 September 2005, 4:00pm, Room 160
Riemannian
optimization methods on homogeneous spaces and its applications to
neural networks
Yasunori Nishimori,
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST),
Japan
11-15 Sepember 2005
ISMIR
2005: 6th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval
[Conference]
Thur 30 June 2005, 4:00pm, Room 105
Acoustic
lexemes for creative organization of audio
Michael Casey, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Wed 15 June, 4:00pm, Room 105 [Digital Music Research Network Seminar]
Auditory-model
based methods for the pitch analysis of polyphonic music signals
Anssi Klapuri, Institute of Signal Processing, Tampere University of Technology,
Finland
Wed 25 May, 4:00pm, Room 105
Analysing
Recorded Music: A Pilot Project
Nicholas Cook, CHARM and Royal Holloway, University of London
Wed 18 May, 4:00pm, Room 105
Easing
DSP Algorithm Development for Audio Processing and Communications
Dr. Gerry Cain, DSP Creations Ltd.
Wed 11 May, 4:00pm, Room 105
Organisation
of Music Collections
Elias Pampalk, Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OeFAI)
Wed 27 April, 4:00pm, Room 105
The
DUET Blind Source Separation Algorithm
Scott Rickard, University College Dublin
Wed 20 April, 3 pm, Room 160
Wavelet
based Scalable Video Coding Architectures
Alberto Signoroni, Università degli Studi di Brescia, Italy
 Wed 13 April, 10:30am-4:30pm, People's Palace
ICA
Research Network Launch Day
[One-Day Event]
Wed 23 March 4:00pm, Room 105
At
the Crossroads of Evolutionary Computation and Music
Eduardo Miranda, Future Music Lab, University of Plymouth
Thu 17 March, 4:00pm, Room 105
Bayesian
approaches to blind separation of sparse sources using Monte Carlo
Markov Chains sampling and variational EM
Cedric Fevotte (Cambridge University) and Ali
Taylan Cemgil (Universiteit van
Amsterdam)
Tue 15 March, 4:00pm, Room 230
Capacity enhancement of compressed video
watermarking using error correction coding
Ivan Damnjanovic, Multimedia and Vision Lab, QMUL
Wed 9 March 4:00pm, Room 160
Towards
a Modular MIR (Music Information Retrieval) metaphor
David Garcia, Music Technology Group, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
Wed 2 March, 2:00pm, Room 209
Advances
in Wireless LAN Technologies
Professor Tony Davies, Emeritus Professor, King's College London and Visiting
Professor, Kingston University
Tue 1 March 2005, 2:00pm, Room 160
2:00pm - Cross field devices
research at Queen Mary
3:00pm - Magnetron Research
at Michigan University - Prof Ron Gilgenbach
Prof Ron Gilgenbach is the Director of the Intense Energy Beam Interaction Lab,
University of Michigan.
Organizer: Dr Xiadong Chen (xiadong.chen@elec.qmul.ac.uk)
Fri 25 February, 11:30am, Room 160
Methods
for Sparse Approximation over Redundant Dictionaries
Lorenzo Granai, EPFL - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Tue 22 February, 4:00pm, Room 230
A framework for scalable video coding
Nikola Sprljan, Multimedia and Vision Lab, QMUL
Tue 8 February, 4:00pm, Room 160
New methods for improved scalability features
in video coding
Marta Mrak, Multimedia and Vision Lab, QMUL
Tue 25 January, 4:00pm, Room 203
Object tracking in video sequences
Emilio Maggio, Multimedia and Vision Lab, QMUL
Tue 11 January, 4:00pm, Room 203
User relevance feedback, search and retrieval
of multimedia content
Divna Djordjevic, Multimedia and Vision Lab, QMUL
2004
Wednesday 01 December 2004, 4:00pm, Room 203
An
ontology-based laboratory workbench and music information system
Yves Raymond and Samer Abdallah from the Centre for Digital Music, QMUL
25-26 November 2004
European
Workshop on the Integration of Knowledge Semantic and Digital Media
Technologies
[Conference at The Royal Statistical Society]
Wed 24 November 2004, 3.30 pm, Drapers Lecture
Theatre
Next-Generation
Wireless Networks
Prof
Victor O. K. Li, The University of Hong Kong
[Distinguished Lecturer Seminar]
Wed 24 November 2004, 4:00pm, Room 203
Discrete Wavelet Transform Domain Watermarking
Yulin Wang, Multimedia and Vision Lab, QMUL
Tue 23 November 2004, 3.30 pm, Engineering Room 305
From
Isolated Queues to Interacting Queues - Is Burke’s Theorem Correct?
Prof
Victor O. K. Li, The University of Hong Kong
[EE & CS Distinguished Lecturer Seminar]
Mon 22 November 2004
User-Driven Fuzzy Clustering: On the Road to Semantic Classification
Andres Dorado, Multimedia and Vision Lab, QMUL
Wed 17 November 2004, 11:30am, Room 105
Instrument
models for source separation and transcription of music recordings
Emmanuel Vincent, Centre for Digital Music at Queen Mary, University of London
Tue 9 November 2004, 4:00pm, Room 203
Error Concealment Technique using Edge Detection
Approach
Winyu Pongpadpinit, Multimedia and Vision Lab, QMUL
Mon 1 November 2004, 2:00pm, Room 105
Extracting
components from the Universe's oldest images
Prof. Jean-François Cardoso, E.N.S.T. (a.k.a. Télécom Paris)
Mon 18 October 2004, 2:00pm, Room 105
Monaural
Source Separation using Spectral Cues
Barak A. Pearlmutter, National University of Ireland Maynooth
Tue 12 October 2004, 3:00pm, Room 203
Robust Correlation Measures for Correspondence
Estimation
Maria Trujillo, Multimedia and Vision Lab, QMUL
Tue 5 October 2004, 1:00pm, Room 160
Image Retrieval in a Semantic Belief Network [IC
Lab seminar]
Ke Ren, Queen Mary, University of London
Thu 30 September 2004, 3:00pm, Room 160
Image Annotation aided by a Semantic Belief Network
Ke Ren, Multimedia & Vision
Research Lab / Intelligent Communications Lab, QMUL
Wed 29 September 2004, 2:00pm, Room 105
On
Onsets On-The-Fly: Real-Time Event Segmentation and Categorisation
as a Compositional Effect
Nick Collins, Music Department, Cambridge University
Thu 16 September 2004, 3:00pm, Room 203
Using Hidden Markov Models for Video Classification
Damien Papworth,
Multimedia & Vision
Research Lab, QMUL
Mon 6 September 2004, 2:00pm, Room 105
Adaptive
Techniques for Image Enhancement: Expected Color Rendition and
Data Fusion
Prof. Sebastiano Battiato, University of Catania
Wed 25 August 2004, 3:00pm, Room 203
Error Resilience and Concealment for Advanced
Video Coding
Marcus Im, Multimedia & Vision Research Lab,
QMUL / Macao Polytechnic Institute, Macao
Thursday 29 July 2004
Audio
and Music Research at Columbia University's LabROSA
Dan Ellis, Columbia University, New York USA
Wed 26 May 2004
Causal
Tempo Tracking of Musical Audio
Matthew Davies, Centre for Digital Music, QMUL
Wed 19 May 2004
Geometrical
Methods for Non-negative Independent Component Analysis
Dr Mark Plumbley, Centre for Digital Music, QMUL
Wed 28 April 2004
Automatic transcription of Australian Aboriginal
music
Andrew Nesbit, Centre for Digital Music, QMUL (previously at the University of
Melbourne, Australia)
Wed 21 April 2004
Minims, MIDI and MP3 (Inaugural
Lecture)
Prof Mark Sandler, Centre for Digital Music, QMUL
Wed 21 April 2004
Several topics on acoustical signal analysis
Wen Xue, Centre for Digital Music, QMUL (previously
at Samsung Labs, Beijing, China)
Wed 25 February 2004
Hidden Markov Models for Speech Recognition---a
tutorial
Prof Stephen Cox, University of East Anglia
Wed 4 Feburary 2004
Sparsifying
sub-band decompositions
Dr. Mike Davies, DSP Lab, Queen Mary University of London
Wed 28 January 2004
Neural
representation of sounds: A tour of auditory centres in the human
central nervous system
Chris Landone, Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary University
of London / SePta, Milan, Italy
Wed 21 January 2004
What's
all that noise? Some thoughts on remote group music improvisation
Nick Bryan-Kinns, Dept of Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London
Wed 7 January 2004
Unsupervised learning of shift-invariant
representations
Thomas Blumensath, Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary University
of London
2003
Mon 22 December 2003 [All-day event]
Workshop:
The Future of Digital Music Research?
Invited speakers included Xavier Serra (Head of Music Technology Group, Pompeu
Fabra University) and Geraint Wiggins (City University, London)
Thu 18 December 2003
System
and Processor Architecture Design for Multimedia Applications
Dr Eric Debes, Architecture Research Lab, Intel Labs, Santa Clara, California
10 December 2003
Estimation
of Short Term Prediction Parameters Under Lossy Conditions
Dawn Black, DSP Lab, Queen Mary University of London
3
December 2003
Demonstrating
HOTBED: A Multimedia Environment for Musicians
Stevie Barrett, Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama
8-11 Sepember, 2003
DAFx-03:
6th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects
[Conference: see www.elec.qmul.ac.uk/dafx03 ]
25 June 2003
Automatic Music Improvisation Interacting
with a Multi-Swarm
Dr. Tim Blackwell, Goldsmiths College
9-11 April 2003
WIAMIS 2003: 4th European
Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services
[Conference: see www.elec.qmul.ac.uk/wiamis]
19th March 2003
Evaluation Music Information Retrieval
(MIR) Systems: What's next?
J. Stephen Downie, Graduate School of Library and Information
Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
[Followed by a discussion about Music Grid and evaluation testbeds
issues.]
19th February 2003
Algorithms for discovering repeated
patterns in multidimensional representations of polyphonic music
David Meredith, City University, London
[Slides available]
2002
20th December 2002
Independent Component
Analysis: Generalisations, Algorithms and Applications
[One-day discussion meeting]
17th December 2002 [One-day meeting]
Launch Day for Digital
Music Research Network
4th December 2002
Probabilistic Information Integration
for Music Scene Analysis
Kunio Kashino, Communication Science Laboratories, NTT (Nippon Telegraph
and Telephone Corporation), Japan
12th November 2002
A Segmentation Algorithm for Extended
Target in Complex Environments
Prof. Zhang Qiheng, Director of the Institute of Optics and
Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
26th April 2002
Computer Vision for Immersive Teleconferencing
Emanuele Trucco, Heriot-Watt University
10th April 2002
Soft decoding and synchronization of VLCs for image & video
transmission over wireless networks
Christine Guillemot, Head of Research, INRIA
27th March 2002
Mobile Multimedia Applications
Paola Hobson, Motorola
15th March 2002
Structural Subband Decomposition:
A New Concept in Digital Signal Processing
Sanjit K. Mitra, University of California, Santa Barbara
13th March 2002
The Essential Matrix as a Fundamental Tool in Computer Vision
Ebroul Izquierdo, Queen Mary, University of London
27th February 2002
Impulse noise in xDSL systems:
Non-Gaussian noise in the real world
Steve MacLaughlin, University of Edinburgh
13th February 2002
Spatial Quality Evaluation for Reproduced Sound: Terminology,
Meaning and a Scene-Based Paradigm
Francis Rumsey, University of Surrey
30th January 2002
Audio and Video Representation
in MPEG-7
Adam Lindsay, University of Lancaster
16th January 2002
Nonlinear Dynamics of Sigma-Delta
Modulators and Phase-locked Loops
Orla Feely, University College Dublin
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