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The Last.fm headquarters in London felt a bit like a university lab for a few hours as Tom Walters visited this Tuesday. We persuaded him to tell us a bit about his research, and he explained and demo’d his
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Both McGill and New York University have announced the release of separate new chord ground truth data sets. Taemin Cho of New York University announced around 300 songs, among which all the RWC pop song collection. The data is going…
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I was invited by Dan Tidhar to present at last week’s visualisation workshop at King’s. It’s been a very pleasant experience, and and we discussed quite a broad range of topics, triggered by the different presentations. Mine was possibly the…
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A rather nice compliment, I find: Infosthetics blog about my Audio Flowers. What’s particularly nice is that they have taken some of the flowers and made a collage out of them. Thanks.
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No insider information here, anyone can see it! Last.fm radio stations now have a pause button. That’s what I wanted, and the guys here just happened to launch it a week after I started at Last.fm. Sweet! In my…
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The past year has been a great one for harmony-related MIR. The chord detection task at MIREX has arguably been more popular than ever, and new ground truth annotation projects have started at McGill et al. Other projects, however, have come to an end: a bunch of PhD theses (please let me know if I’ve missed any, or even yours). Also a good thing!
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I liked the session on ground truth at Dagstuhl. There are always philosophic issues of course, but we had a really nice practical introduction to ground truth from Ichiro Fujinaga (Music Technology at McGill) through a video showing…
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Today (Wednesday) we saw a very inspiring keynote by Hannah Bast, Professor at the University of Freiburg. She’s an expert in text search and has an impressive history of employers, including Google and the Max Planck Institute for Informatics…
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Well, it’s a grand name: Time and Meaning, but it prompted the outbreak group I attended today (Tuesday) to come up with some very interesting discussions. Which are hard to summarise here because it was one morning plus one afternoon…
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Possibly the most interesting thing I saw today (Monday) was a presentation by Geoffroy Peeters (left in the photo, playing trumpet accompanied by Gaël Richard) of his copy and scale method. It is similar to something I saw at…