Scientific Activities
On this website, you find a selection of my scientific activities during the last years.
Organization of Scientific Events (Conferences, Workshops, Special Sessions)
- Organizer (with Magdalena Fuentes, Dasaem Jeong), Dagstuhl Seminar Open Music Data for Music Processing Research, Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, Wadern, Germany, June 28 – July 03, 2026
- Organizer (with Stefan Balke, Jakob Abesser), Special Session Music Information Retrieval, Jahrestagung für Akustik (DAGA), Dresden, Germany, March 26, 2026
- Organizer (with Cynthia Liem, Brian McFee), Dagstuhl Seminar Learning with Music Signals: Technology Meets Education, Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, Wadern, Germany, July 21–25, 2024
- Organizer (with Stefan Balke, Jakob Abesser), Special Session Sound Analysis for Music and Audio Signals, Jahrestagung für Akustik (DAGA), Hannover, Germany, March 20/21, 2024
- Organizer (with Jakob Abesser, Sebastian Stober), Special Session Sound Analysis for Music and Audio Signals, Jahrestagung für Akustik (DAGA), Hamburg, Germany, March 8, 2023
PDF (Inhaltsverzeichnis) - Scientific Chair (with Rainer Kleinertz), Tagung Understanding Beethoven – Musicology and Computer Science in Dialogue, Mutter-Beethoven-Haus Koblenz, Koblenz, Germany, July 14 – 16, 2022
PDF of Flyer - Organizer (with Rachel Bittner, Juhan Nam), Dagstuhl Seminar Deep Learning and Knowledge Integration for Music Audio Analysis, Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, Wadern, Germany, February 20 – February 25, 2022
- Organizer (with Emilia Gómez, Yi-Hsuan Yang), Dagstuhl Seminar Computational Methods for Melody and Voice Processing in Music Recordings, Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, Wadern, Germany, January 27 – February 01, 2019
- General Chair (with Patrick A. Naylor), IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA), Mohonk, USA, 15-18 October 2017
- General Chair (with Christian Dittmar), GI Workshop: Musik trifft Informatik, 47. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI), Chemnitz, Germany, 26 September 2017
- General Chair (with Christian Uhle), AES Conferencs on Semantic Audio, Fraunhofer IIS and Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany, June 2017
- Organizer (with Juan Pablo Bello, Elaine Chew), Dagstuhl Seminar Computational Music Structure Analysis, Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, Wadern, Germany, March 2016
- Programme Chair (with Frans Wiering), International Society for Music Information Conference (ISMIR), Malaga, Spain, October 2015
- Scientific Coordinator (with Sascha Disch, Jürgen Herre, Rudolf Rabenstein, Bernd Edler, Stefan Turowski), International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx), Fraunhofer IIS and Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, September 2014
- Organizer (with Shrikanth S. Narayanan, Björn Schuller), Dagstuhl Seminar Computational Audio Analysis, Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, Wadern, Germany, November 2013
- Organizer (with Christian Dittmar), Special Session Informed Music Audio Processing, International Workshop on Image and Audio Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS), Paris, France, July 2013
- Organizer (with Cynthia Liem, Steven K. Tjoa, George Tzanetakis), Second International Workshop on Music Information Retrieval with User-Centered and Multimodal Strategies (MIRUM), ACM Multimedia 2012, Nara, Japan, November 2012
- Programme Chair, International Society for Music Information Conference (ISMIR), Porto, Portugal, October 2012
- Organizer (with Masataka Goto, Paris Smaragdis), Special Session Learning with Music Signal, ICASSP, March 2012
- Organizer (with Cynthia Liem, Douglas Eck, George Tzanetakis), First International Workshop on Music Information Retrieval with User-Centered and Multimodal Strategies (MIRUM), ACM Multimedia 2011, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA, November 2011
- Organizer (with Simon Dixon, Masataka Goto), Dagstuhl Seminar Multimodal Music Processing, Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, Wadern, Germany, January 2011
- Organizer (with Shigeki Sagayma), Special Session Music Signal Processing Exploiting Musical Knowledge, ICASSP, March 2010
- Organizer (with Michael Clausen, Armin Kohlrausch, Frank Kurth, Björn Schuller), Special Session Music Processing, Jahrestagung für Akustik (DAGA), annually 2006–2010
PhD Review Board (selection)
- Bernardo Torres, Structure-Guided Learning for Audio Analysis under Low Supervision, Télécom Paris, France, July 2026
- Simon Schwär, Differentiable Models for Music Signal Reconstruction, Adaptation, and Synthesis, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), June 2026
- Peter Meier, Real-Time Algorithms for Beat Tracking and Pitch Estimation, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), December 2025
- Luís F. V de Carvalho, Multi-modal Music Search and Retrieval without Symbolic Representations, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria, November 2025
- Yigitcan Özer, Source Separation of Piano Music Recordings, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), June 2024
- Michael Krause, Activity Detection for Sound Events in Orchestral Music Recordings, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), July 2023
- Sebastian Rosenzweig, Interactive Signal Processing Tools for Analyzing Multitrack Singing Voice Recordings, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), June 2022
- Furkan Yesiler, Data-driven Musical Version Identification: Accuracy, Scalability, and Bias Perspectives, Dept. of Information and Communication Technologies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain, January 2022
- Frank Zalkow, Learning Audio Representations for Cross-Version Retrieval of Western Classical Music, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), July 2021
- Hendrik Schreiber, Data-Driven Approaches for Tempo and Key Estimation of Music Recordings, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), July 2020
- Guillaume Doras, Automatic Cover Detection Using Deep Learning, Université Pierre & Marie Curie, Paris, May 2020
- Patricio López-Serrano, Analyzing Sample-Based Electronic Music Using Audio Processing Techniques, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), March 2019
- Christian Dittmar, Source Separation and Restoration of Drum Sounds in Music Recordings, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), May 2018
- Stefan Balke, Multimedia Processing Techniques for Retrieving, Extracting, and Accessing Musical Content, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), March 2018
- Alessio Bazzica, Music Information Retrieval beyond Audio. A Vision-Based Approach for Real-World Data, Delft Universtiy of Technology, December 2017
- Reinhard Sonnleitner, Audio Identification via Fingerprinting – Achieving Robustness to Severe Signal Modifications, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria, May 2017
- Christof Weiß, Computational Methods for Tonality-Based Style Analysis of Classical Music Audio Recordings, Technische Universität Ilmenau, Germany, April 2017
- Karin Dressler, Automatic Transcription of the Melody from Polyphonic Music, Technische Universität Ilmenau, Germany, April 2017
- Emilio Molina Martínez, Singing Information Processing: Techniques and Applications, Universidad de Málaga, Spain, February 2017
- Andreas Arzt, Flexible and Robust Music Tracking, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria, December 2016
- Thomas Prätzlich, Freischütz Digial: Processing Audio Signals in Complex Music Scenarios, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), November 2016
- Anna Aljanaki, Emotion in Music: Representation and Computational Modeling, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands, September 2016
- Jonathan Driedger, Processing Music Signals Using Audio Decomposition Techniques, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), May 2016
- Harald G. Grohganz, Algorithmen zur strukturellen Analyse von Musikaufnahmen, Institut für Informatik, Universität Bonn, Germany, February 2015
- Nanzhu Jiang, Repetition-based Structure Analysis of Music Recordings, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), February 2015
- Thomas Helten, Processing and Tracking Human Motions Using Optical, Inertial, and Depth Sensors, Saarland University and MPI Informatik, December 2013
- Verena Thomas, Music Synchronization, Audio Matching, Pattern Detection, and User Interfaces for a Digital Music Library System, Institut für Informatik, Universität Bonn, Germany, June 2013
- Willem Bas de Haas, Music Information Retrieval Based on Tonal Harmony, Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands, September 2012
- Andreas Baak, Retrieval-based Approaches for Tracking and Reconstructing Human Motions, Saarland University and MPI Informatik, June 2012
- Peter Grosche, Signal Processing Methods for Beat Tracking, Music Segmentation, and Audio Retrieval, Saarland University and MPI Informatik, May 2012
- Verena Konz, Automated Methods for Audio-Based Music Analysis with Applications to Musicology, Saarland University and MPI Informatik, May 2012
- Sebastian Ewert, Signal Processing Methods for Music Synchronization, Audio Matching, and Source Separation, Bonn University, March 2012
- Cyril Joder, Alignement temporel musique-sur-partition par modèles graphiques discriminatifs, Signal Processing Department, TELECOM ParisTech, Paris, France, September 2011
- Joan Serrà Julià, Identification of Versions of the Same Musical Composition by Processing Audio Descriptions, Dept. of Information and Communication Technologies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain, March 2011
- Christian Fremerey, Automatic Organization of Digital Music Documents—Sheet Music and Audio, Institut für Informatik, Universität Bonn, Germany, July 2010
- Jouni Paulus, Signal Processing Methods for Drum Transcription and Music Structure Analysis, Faculty of Computing and Electrical Engineering, Tampere University of Technology, January 2010
- Antonello D'Aguanno, A Multilayer Approach to Music Features' Extraction and their Synchronization, Computer Science, University of Milan, Italy, February 2009
Editorial Activities (selection)
- Editor-in-Chief of the Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval (TISMIR), 2024-2026
- Member of the Editorial Board of the Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval (TISMIR), 2017-2023
- Member of the Senior Editorial Board of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 2018-2022
- Lead Guest Editor (with Bryan A. Pardo, Gautham J. Mysore, Vesa Välimäki), Special Issue on Recent Advances in Music Signal Processing, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 2019
- Guest Editor (with Tapio Lokki, Stefania Serafin, Vesa Välimäki), Special Issue Sound and Music Computing, Applied Sciences, 2018
- Area sub-chair (together with Bryan Pardo) for the area Music Information Retrieval and Music Language Processing (AASP 1.13), International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2018
- Proceedings (with Christian Dittmar, Jakob Abeßer), 2017 AES International Conference on Semantic Audio, Erlangen, Germany, June 2017, ISBN 978-1-942220-15-2
- Proceedings (with Frans Wiering), 16th International Society for Music Information Conference (ISMIR), Malaga, Spain, October 2015, ISBN 987-84-606-8853-2 PDF of Proceedings [868 pages]
- Proceedings (with Sascha Disch, Jürgen Herre, Rudolf Rabenstein, Bernd Edler, Stefan Turowski), 17th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx), Fraunhofer IIS and Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, September 2014, ISBN: 978-3-00-046825-4
- Area chair (together with Emmanuel Vincent, Vesa Välimäki) for the area Audio and Music Signal Processing, IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA), 2013
- Dagstuhl Follow-Ups (with Masataka Goto, Markus Schedl), Multimodal Music Processing, Vol. 3, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, Germany, 2012, ISBN 978-3-939897-37-8
- Proceedings (with Fabien Gouyon, Perfecto Herrera, Luis Gustavo Martins), 13th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR), Porto, Portugal, October 2012, ISBN 978-972-752-144-9
- Proceedings (with Cynthia C. S. Liem, Steven K. Tjoa, George Tzanetakis), The Second International ACM workshop on Music Information Retrieval with User-centered and Multimodal Strategies (MIRUM), Nara, Japan, October 2012, ISBN 978-1-4503-1591-3
- Lead Guest Editor, Special Issue Music Signal Processing, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, 2011
- Proceedings (with Cynthia C. S. Liem, Douglas Eck, George Tzanetakis), The First International ACM workshop on Music Information Retrieval with User-centered and Multimodal Strategies (MIRUM), Scottsdale, AZ, USA, November 2011, ISBN 978-1-4503-0986-8
Memberships (selection)
- Fellow of the IEEE Society (2020) for contributions to Music Signal Processing
- ACM Senior Member (2020)
- President of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), 2020-2021
- Member of the Board of Directors of The International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), 2009-2021
- Member of the IEEE Audio and Acoustic Signal Processing Technical Committee, 2010-2016
- PC Member and Reviewer for ISMIR, ICASSP, SIGGRPAH, DAFx, WASPAA, ICMC, ACM-MM, ECDL, IEEE/ACM Transactions ASLP, IEEE Transactions MM, ...
Tutorials (selection)
- Tutorial (with Johannes Zeitler), Differentiable Alignment Techniques for Music Processing: Techniques and Applications, International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR), Daejeon, Korea, September 21, 2025
Website with Sources - Tutorial, Musikalische Intelligenz: Digitale Mustererkennung und Audioanalyse, Fachschaftstagung Mathematik/Informatik Algo-Rhythmus – wie Mathe und Musik harmonieren, Cusanuswerk, Uder, Germany, May 30, 2025
Programm - Tutorial (with Masataka Goto and Jin Ha Lee), Exploring 25 Years of Music Information Retrieval: Perspectives and Insights, International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR), San Francisco, USA, November 10, 2024
- Invited Lecture, Automatische Erschließung von Musikdaten, FAU Scientia Vorlesungsreihe, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, June 5, 2024
PDF of Handouts, PDF of Slides - Webinar, Nonnegative Autoencoders with Applications to Music Audio Decomposing , IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS), Invitation by SL TC & AASP TC, May 15, 2024
PDF of Handouts, PDF of Slides - Tutorial, Learning with Music Signals: Technology Meets Education, International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR), Milan, Italy, November 25, 2023
All Handouts and Slides (PDF) as zip: ZIP
Handouts (PDF): Part 0, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
Slides (PDF): Part 0, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 - Tutorial, An Introduction to Music Information Retrieval, Autumn Course 2023, Board Of European Students Of Technology (BEST), Local BEST Group (LBG) Erlangen, September 13, 2023
- Tutorial: Learning with Music Signals: Technology Meets Education, Eurographics (EG), Saarbrücken, Germany, May 8, 2023
All Handouts and Slides (PDF) as zip: ZIP
Handouts (PDF): Part 0, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
Slides (PDF): Part 0, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 - Guest Lecture Series (Online), Central Conservatory of Music (CCOM), Bejing, China, March 2023
- Nonnegative Autoencoders with Applications to Music Audio Decomposing, March 17, 2023
PDF of Handouts, PDF of Slides - International Society for Music Information Retrieval, March 17, 2023
PDF of Handouts, PDF of Slides - Learning-By-Doing: Using the FMP Python Notebooks for Audio and Music Processing, March 3, 2023
PDF of Handouts, PDF of Slides - An Introduction to Music Information Retrieval, March 1, 2023
PDF of Handouts, PDF of Slides
- Nonnegative Autoencoders with Applications to Music Audio Decomposing, March 17, 2023
- Guest Lecture (Online): FMP Notebooks: Interaktives Lehren und
Lernen der Digitalen Musikverarbeitung, Ringvorlesung Musikdatenanalyse, TU Dortmund, February 3, 2023
PDF of Handouts, PDF of Slides - Tutorial: An Introduction to Music Information Retrieval, Deep Learning IndabaX, Online, Nigeria, September 25, 2021
Handouts (PDF): MIR, FMP, ISMIR
Slides (PDF): MIR, FMP, ISMIR - Workshop: Audio Signal Processing for Computational Musicology (WASP-CM), Coordinator: Prof. Preeti Rao, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay, India, December 2-6, 2019
Flyer: PDF - Tutorial (with Frank Zalkow), Fundamentals of Music Processing: An Introduction Using Python and Jupyter Notebooks, International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR), Delft, The Netherlands, November 2019
Tutorial website with handouts, links, and references - Tutorial (with Andreas Arzt, Stefan Balke), Cross-Modal Music Retrieval and Applications, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Brighton, UK, May 2019
Tutorial website with handouts, links, and references - CCRMA Summer Workshop (with Brian McFee, Steve Tjoa), Music Information Retrieval, Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), Stanford University, USA, June 25-29, 2018
Links: Workshop Website, Material - Tutorial, Fundamentals of Music Processing, RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion, University of Oslo, 03 May 2018
- Tutorial, Fundamentals of Music Processing, School of Mathematics, The University of Edinburgh, 23 November 2017
- Tutorial (with Christof Weiß), A Basic Introduction to Audio-Related Music Information Retrieval, International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR), Suzhou, China, 23-28 October 2017
Website with Sources - Tutorial (with Stefan Balke, Christof Weiß), Automatisierte Methoden der Musikverarbeitung, 47. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI), Chemnitz, Germany, 25 September 2017
- Meisterklasse Music Information Retrieval (with Christof Weiß), Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe, 5 - 7 April 2017
- Tutorial, Musik und Schallwellen,
Lehrerfortbildung in Informatik, Dagstuhl, Dezember 2014
Handouts: PDF of Part 1, PDF of Part 2 - Tutorial (with Jordan Smith), Musical Structure Analysis, Conference of the International Society on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), Taipei, Taiwan, October 2014
Handouts: PDF of Part 0, PDF of Part 1, PDF of Part 2 - Tutorial, Audio Structure Analysis of Music, International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx), September 2014
PDF of Handouts - Tutorial, Automatisierte Musikverarbeitung, Forschungstage Informatik, Saarbrücken, Germany, June 2012
- Tutorial (with Joan Serrà), Audio Content-based Music Retrieval, Conference of the International Society on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), Miami, USA, October 2011
- Tutorial (with Anssi Klapuri), Music Signal Processing, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Prague, Czech Republic, May 2011
- Tutorial, Music Information Retrieval, Herbstschule Information Retrieval, Gesellschaft für Informatik, Dagstuhl, Germany, September 2010
- Tutorial (with Anssi Klapuri), A Music-oriented Approach to Music Signal Processing, Conference of the International Society on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), Utrecht, Netherlands, August 2010
- Tutorial, Beethoven, Bach und Billionen Bytes – Neue Allianzen zwischen Musik und Informatik, Fachschaftstagung des Cusanuswerkes, Uder, Germany, May 2010.
- Tutorial, Beethoven, Bach und Billionen Bytes – Neue Allianzen zwischen Musik und Informatik, Lehrerfortbildung Informatik, Gesellschaft für Informatik, Dagstuhl, Germany, December 2009
- Tutorial, Analysis and Retrieval Techniques for Music and Motion Data, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Taipei, Taiwan, April 2009
- Tutorial, Analysis and Retrieval Techniques for Motion and Music Data, Eurographics (EG), Munich, Germany, March 2009
- Tutorial, Multimedia Information Retrieval, Herbstschule Information Retrieval, Gesellschaft für Informatik, Dagstuhl, Germany, September 2008
- Tutorial, Music Information Retrieval, Forschungstag Bundeswettbewerb Informatik, Saarbrücken, Germany, September 2008
- Tutorial, Analysis and Retrieval Techniques for Motion and Music Data, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME), Hannover, Germany, June 2008
- Tutorial, Alignment Techniques and its Applications to Information Retrieval, DAAD Summer School 2007, Methods from Mathematics and Computer Science for Pattern Recognition in Biology, Shanghai, China, October 2007
- Tutorial (with Roger Dannenberg), Synchronization and Matching Techniques for Music Data, International Symposium on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), Vienna, Austria, September 2007
Keynotes and Invited Talks (selection)
- Invited Talk Mit den Ohren eines Computers: Wie Computer Musik analysieren, verstehen und durchsuchen, Matineekonzert of the Projekt WindMusicLab, Höxter, July 12, 2026
PDF of Talk - Invited Talk Digitale Musikwissenschaft: Wenn Musik auf Informatik trifft, Tagung und Einführung zu Richard Wagners "Götterdämmerung" zwischen Geschichte und Informatik, Saarländische Staatstheater, June 13, 2026
PDF of Program - Invited Talk Beethoven.exe: How Machines Listen, Learn, and Remix Music, Weihnachtskolloquium der Fakultät für Mathematik und Informatik, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, December 16, 2025
PDF of Handouts, PDF of Slides - Invited Talk Loss Functions Matter: Three Case Studies in Informed Loss Design, Lecture Series Musical Informatics, Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, November 19, 2025
PDF of Handouts, PDF of Slides - Invited Talk Analyzing the Musical Scene, Symposium TU(R)NING SPACE – Analysis, synthesis and perception of kinetic auditory space in music, art and hearing science, Technical University of Munich (TUM), July 4, 2025
- Invited Talk Digitale Musikverarbeitung: Vom Scheitern Lernen, Ringvorlesung Transdisziplinäre Aspekte Digitaler Methodik in den Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, July 2, 2025
- Invited Talk Loss Functions Matter: Three Case Studies in Informed Loss Design, Workshops of the Audio Data Analysis and Signal Processing (ADASP) Group, Télécom Paris, June 12, 2025
PDF of Handouts - Invited Talk Learning with Music Signals: Technology Meets Education, Visualisierungskolloquium, VISUS, Universität Stuttgart, January 24, 2025
PDF of Handouts - Invited Talk Automatische Erschließung von Musikdaten, Collegium Alexandrinum, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, January 16, 2025
PDF of Handouts - Invited Talk Digitale Musikverarbeitung: Vom Scheitern Lernen, Workshop: Digitalität & Kulturelle Resilienz: Afghanische Musik in der Diaspora, UNESCO Chair in Digital Culture and Arts in Education, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, January 9, 2025
PDF of Handouts - Invited Talk Automatische Erschließung von Musikdaten, Rotary Club Nürnberg-Fürth, June 6, 2024
PDF of Handouts, PDF of Slides - Invited Talk Nonnegative Autoencoders with Applications to Music Audio Decomposing, Guest lecture (invited by Ye Wang) for the class Sound and Music Computing (CS4347/CS5647), Online, National University of Singapore, 16 September 2023
PDF of Handouts, PDF of Slides - Invited Talk Automatische Erschließung von Musikdaten, INVisionDay Informatikfakultät, Technische Hochschule Nürnberg Georg Simon Ohm , 26 April 2023
PDF of Handouts, PDF of Slides - Invited Talk Learning with Music Signals: Technology Meets Education, Jahrestreffen des Beirates der UniversitätsprofessorInnen (GIBU), Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI), Schloss Dagstuhl, 3. April 2023
PDF of Handouts, PDF of Slides - Keynote Neue Wege für die Musikfoschung, Feierstunde 70 Jahre Musikwissenschaft, Institut für Musikwissenschaft, Universität des Saarlandes, 11. November 2022
PDF of Handouts, PDF of Slides - Invited Talk Nonnegative Autoencoders with Applications to Music Audio Decomposing, Guest lecture (invited by Ye Wang) for the class Sound and Music Computing (CS4347/CS5647), Online, National University of Singapore, 12 September 2022
PDF of Handouts, PDF of Slides - Talk Automatische Erschließung von Musikdaten, Symposium, Künstliche Intelligenz:
Maschinelles Lernen und Mustererkennung, Forum Technologie der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, München, Germany, 22 July 2022
PDF of Handouts, Vortrag@Mediathek der BAdW - Talk New Avenues for Music Research Using Digital Signal Processing, Tagung, Understanding Beethoven – Musicology and Computer Science in Dialogue, Mutter-Beethoven-Haus Koblenz, Koblenz, Germany, 15 July 2022
PDF of Handouts, PDF of Slides - Invited Talk Musik trifft Informatik in Dagstuhl, Wissenschaftliches Kolloquium und Festakt, 32 Jahre Informatik in Schloss Dagstuhl, 24 June 2022
PDF of Handouts, PDF of Slides - Invited Talk Reviewing ISMIR Papers: Some Personal Thoughts, ISMIR Reviewing Q&A Session, Online, 27 May 2022
PDF of Handouts, PDF of Slides - Invited Talk Annotations and Analyses in Computational Musicology: Separate it or not?, Workshop on Possibilities and Limitations of Digital Annotation Tools for Audio-Visual Material with a focus on Sound and Music, Mainz, 3 May 2022
PDF of Handouts, PDF of Slides - Invited Talk Nonnegative Autoencoders with Applications to Music Audio Decomposing, Guest lecture (invited by Ye Wang) for the class Sound and Music Computing (CS4347), Online, National University of Singapore, 14 February 2022
PDF of Handouts, PDF of Slides - Invited Talk Learning-By-Doing: Using the FMP Python Notebooks for Audio and Music Processing, NUS Computer Science Research Week 2022, Online, National University of Singapore, 06 January 2022
PDF of Handouts, PDF of Slides - Invited Talk Learning-By-Doing: Using the FMP Python Notebooks for Audio and Music Processing, 50th meeting of the Special Interest Group on Music Analysis (SIGMA), Online, TU Dortmund, 24 September 2021
PDF of Handouts, PDF of Slides - Invited Talk (with Christof Weiß) Neue Wege für die Musikforschung mittels Digitaler Signalverarbeitung, Ringvorlesung Tech Talk, Interdisziplinären Zentrum für Digitale Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 10 December 2019
PDF of Handouts (Part 1), PDF of Handouts (Part 2), PDF of Flyer - Invited Talk Die Vermessung der Tonart – klingt vermessen?
Kolloquium "Tonart" für Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Auhagen, Institut für Musik, Medien- und Sprechwissenschaften (IMMS), Martin-Luther Universität Halle-Wittenberg, 8 February, 2019
PDF of Handouts - Invited Talk Beethoven, Bach, and Billions of Bytes—When Music Meets Computer Science,
SoundTracer Completion Workshop, National Library of Norway, University of Oslo, 4 May 2018
PDF of Handouts - Invited Talk Beethoven, Bach, and Billions of Bytes—When Music Meets Computer Science,
School of Mathematics Colloquium, The University of Edinburgh, 24 November 2017
PDF of Handouts - Invited Talk Music Information Retrieval—When Music Meets Computer Science,
Berlin Music Information Retrieval Meetup, SoundCloud, Berlin, March 2017
PDF of Handouts, PDF of Slides - Invited Talk Music Information Retrieval—When Music Meets Computer Science,
IWR-Colloquium on Computational Methods in Sciences, Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing, Universität Heidelberg, Januar 2017
PDF of Handouts - Invited Talk Musically Informed Audio Decomposition,
Oberseminar, Lehrstuhl für Complex and Intelligent Systems, Universität Passau, Januar 2017
PDF of Handouts - Invited Talk Musically Informed Audio Decomposition, Department of Computational Perception, Johannes Kepler University Linz, December 2016
PDF of Handouts - Invited Talk Happy Birthday—When Music Meets Computer Science,
Conference: Configuration Spaces and Moduli Spaces in Homotopy Theory, a conference on the occasion of Carl-Friedrich Bödigheimer's 60th birthday, Hausdorff Center for Mathematics, Universität Bonn, October 2016
PDF of Handouts - Invited Talk Segmentation and Retrieval Techniques for Music and Motion Data,
Digital Sports Colloquium, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, October 2016
PDF of Handouts, PDF of Slides - Invited Talk Beethoven, Bach, and Billions of Bytes—Music meets Computer Science,
IDEA Lectures Series,
Max-Planck-Institut für empirische Ästhetik, February 2016
PDF of Handouts - Invited Talk Möglichkeiten und Potentiale computergestützter Analyse von Musik, Interdisziplinäre Arbeitsgruppe Richard Wagner, Philosophischen Fakultät der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, November 2015
- Invited Talk Versionsübergreifende Analyse harmonischer Strukturen, Symposium Musikanalyse im Spannungsfeld von Expertise und computergestützter Datenverarbeitung, Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Musikforschung, Halle, Germany, Oktober 2015
- Invited Talk Informed Feature Representations,
FAST IMPACt All-Hands Meeting,
Oxford e-Research Centre, Oxford,
March 2015
PDF of Handouts - Invited Talk Musically Informed Audio Decomposition,
QMUL Centre for Digital Music Seminar Series,
Queen Mary University of London, London, March 2015
PDF of Handouts - Invited Talk Informed Feature Representations for Music and Motion, Lorentz Workshop,
Music Similarity: Concepts, Cognition and Computation, Lorentz Center, Leiden, The Netherlands, January 2015
PDF of Handouts - Invited Talk Beethoven, Bach und Billionen Bytes – Musik trifft Informatik, Kolloquium,
Fakultät Wirtschaftsinformatik und Angewandte Informatik, Universität Bamberg, October 2014
PDF of Handouts - Invited Talk Beethoven, Bach und Billionen Bytes – Automatisierte Analyse von Musik und Klängen,
Eröffnungsvortrag, 53. Tutzing-Symposion, Prozessanalytik – Werkzeug oder Zukunftstechnologie,
DECHEMA, Oktober 2014
PDF of Handouts - Invited Talk Cross-Modal Music Retrieval, International Research Workshop of the Jazzomat Project, September 2014
PDF of Handouts - Keynote Automatisierte Methoden zur Strukturierung von Musikaufnahmen, 30. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Musikpsychologie (DGM), September 2014
PDF of Handouts - Keynote Music Structure Analysis, AES 53rd International Conference, Semantic Audio, London, January 2014
- Invited Talk Beethoven, Bach, and Billions of Bytes—New Alliances between Music and Computer Science, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Tartu, Estonia, April 2013
- Invited Talk Informed Feature Representations for Music and Motion, CRESTWorkshop on Human-Harmonized Information Technology, Kyoto University, Japan, April 2012
- Invited Talk New Developments in Music Information Retrieval, AES 42nd Conference on Semantic Audio, Ilmenau, Germany, July 2011
- Invited Talk Automatisierte Methoden zur Verarbeitung von Musikdaten, Kolloquium der Kommission der Göttinger Akademie der Wissenschaften, Göttingen, Germany, May 2011
- Invited Talk State-of-the-art in Music Information Retrieval, AVATecH Expert Workshop, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Netherlands, November 2010
- Invited Talk New Developments in Music Information Retrieval, ITG Fachtagung Sprachkommunikation, Bochum, Germany, October 2010.
- Invited Talk Automated Methods for Supporting Music Performance Studies, Symposium Interpretationsforschung – Methoden computergestützter Analyse im Kreuzverhör der Disziplinen, Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung, Berlin, November 2010
- Invited Talk Beethoven, Bach und Billionen Bytes – Musik trifft Informatik, Wissenschaftsmatinée des WissenschaftsForumSaar e.V., Saarbrücken, Germany, November 2010
- Invited Talk Extracting Beat and Tempo Information from Music Recordings, Workshop Audiosignal- und Sprachverarbeitung, Bonn, Germany, February 2010
- Invited Talk Musik trifft Informatik, Empower Deutschland, Nacht der Innovationen, Saarbrücken, Germany, May 2009.
- Keynote Content-based Multimedia Retrieval- Music and Motion, Conference on Visual Media Production (CVMP), London, GB, November 2007
Advisory Boards (selection)
- Member of the External Advisory Board, UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Artifficial Intelligence and Music (AIM), Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), 2020-
- Member of the Advisory Board, EU Innovative Training Network on Music Information Processing (MIP-Frontiers), 2019-2021
- Member of the Advisory Board, Fusing Audio and Semantic Technologies (FAST IMPACt), Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) project, 2015-2019
- Member of the Advisory Panel, Transforming Musicology, AHRC Digital Transformations project, Goldsmiths University of London, Queen Mary University of London, University of Oxford, 2013-2017.
Awards (selection)
- Classical Test-of-Time Award 2025 of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), honoring the period 2005–2008, awarded for the paper: Audio Matching via Chroma-Based Statistical Features by Meinard Müller, Frank Kurth, and Michael Clausen, ISMIR 2005
PDF - Best Paper Award of the International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx) for the paper A Real-Time Approach for Estimating Pulse Tracking Parameters for Beat-Synchronous Audio Effects by Peter Meier, Simon Schwär, and Meinard Müller, 2024
PDF - Fraunhofer-IIS-Preis des LZE e.V. 2023 für herausragende wissenschaftliche Leistungen, 2023
PDF - Best Paper Award of the Conference on Computational Humanities Research (CHR) for the paper Studying Tonal Evolution of Western Choral Music: A Corpus-Based Strategy by Christof Weiß and Meinard Müller, 2023
PDF - FAU Innovator 2023 in the Category "Research"
Announcement, FAU Magazine, PDF - Outstanding Reviewer Recognition, International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2023
PDF - Signals 2021 Best Paper Second Award for the article An Educational Guide through the FMP Notebooks for Teaching and Learning Fundamentals of Music Processing, Signals 2021, 2(2), 245-285; DOI:10.3390/signals2020018
PDF - IEEE Fellow for contributions to music signal processing, 2020
- Studentische Lehrevaluation der Technischen Fakultät der Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 4. Platz der Kategorie Vorlesung (4/62) für die Vorlesung Music Processing Analysis, Winter Semester 2020/2021
- Studentische Lehrevaluation der Technischen Fakultät der Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 5. Platz der Kategorie Vorlesung (5/46) für die Vorlesung Music Processing Analysis, Winter Semester 2017/2018
- Best Paper Award of the International Workshop on Folk Music Analysis (FMA) for the paper Analysis of the Tbilisi State Conservatory Recordings of Artem Erkomaishvili in 1966
by Frank Scherbaum, Meinard Müller, and Sebastian Rosenzweig, 2017
PDF - Best Poster Award of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR)
for the paper Let It Bee — Towards NMF-Inspired Audio Mosaicing
by Jonathan Driedger, Thomas Prätzlich, and Meinard Müller, 2015
PDF - Studentische Lehrevaluation der Technischen Fakultät der Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 3. Platz der Kategorie Praktikum (3/42) für das Audio Processing Laboratory, Summer Semester 2015
- Best Poster Award of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR)
for the paper Converting path structures into block structures using eigenvalue decompositions of self-similarity matrices
by Harald Grohganz, Michael Clausen, Nanzhu Jiang, and Meinard Müller, 2013
PDF - Best Paper Award of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR)
for the paper A Segment-Based Fitness Measure for Capturing Repetitive Structures of Music Recordings
by Meinard Müller, Peter Grosche, and Nanzhu Jiang, 2011
PDF - Best Teaching Award of the Fachschaftsrat Informatikstudiengänge for the course Music Processing, Universität des Saarlandes, Summer Semester 2010
PDF - Best Presentation Award of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR)
for the paper A mid-level representation for capturing dominant tempo and pulse information in music recordings
by Peter Grosche and Meinard Müller, 2009
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