Current Research Areas

  • Machine listening / computer audition
  • Machine learning for audio and sequential data
  • Music information retrieval
  • Computational sound scene analysis
  • Computational musicology/ethnomusicology

Research Projects

Date Role Funded Value Title
03/2024 – 03/2026 PI £33,000 Style classification of podcasts using audio, Spotify Ltd
03/2024 – 08/2025 CI £250,000 Music performance assessment and feedback, industry R&D / contract research
10/2023 – 07/2024 PI £52,455 Resource-efficient machine listening, Royal Academy of Engineering / Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship LTRF2223-19-106
01/2023 – 12/2025 AI 360,000 NZ$ Cross-cultural relationships between speech and song, Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden Fund Fast-Start Grant 22-VUW-078
02/2022 – 10/2023 PI £252,000 Deep learning technologies for multi-instrument automatic music transcription, Huawei Technologies Düsseldorf
10/2021 – 01/2022 PI £8,125 Towards complete music transcription: converting performance MIDI to quantized MIDI, Bytedance UK
03/2021 – 03/2023 PI £3,800 Unsupervised detection of sound events for complex audio, Royal Society International Exchanges grant IEC\NSFC\201382
03/2021 – 09/2021 PI £11,286 Automatic guitar tutoring prototype, Algorivm Ltd and QMUL EPSRC/STFC IAA Large Grants Competition Programme
08/2021 – 07/2024 CI £293,434 Graph Neural Networks for Explainable Artificial Intelligence (GraphNEx), CHIST-ERA / EPSRC grant EP/V062107/1
11/2019 – 06/2021 CI £148,038 Development of next generation music recognition algorithm for content monitoring, Innovate UK grant 30863
07/2019 – 12/2027 CI £6,240,207 UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Artificial Intelligence and Music, EPSRC grant EP/S022694/1
09/2018 – 08/2021 CI €166,544 Data-driven quality prediction for digitally restored audio archives, Science Foundation Ireland, Insight-SFI PhD Recruitment Scheme
04/2018 – 03/2022 CI €819,863 (QMUL) New Frontiers in Music Information Processing (MIP-Frontiers), European Training Network, 765068
04/2018 – 06/2019 PI £97,839 Integrating sound and context recognition for acoustic scene analysis, EPSRC grant EP/R01891X/1
08/2016 – 08/2017 PI £23,759 Automatic transcription of polyphonic music recordings, Newton Research Collaboration Programme award, NRCP1617/5/46
09/2015 – 11/2016 CI £77,445 Polyfoni-X-Score (funded by DoReMIR Music Research)
04/2015 – 05/2015 CI £5,940 Automatic segmentation of audio recordings to speech and music
03/2015 – 03/2020 PI £404,471 A Machine Learning Framework for Audio Analysis and Retrieval, RAEng Research Fellowship RF/128
09/2014 – 10/2015 CI £61,570 An Integrated Audio-Symbolic Model of Music Similarity, AHRC Grant AH/M002454/1
04/2014 – 07/2014 PI £5,768 A Deep Learning Framework for Automatic Music Transcription
01/2014 – 03/2015 CI £451,750 Digital Music Lab - Analysing Big Music Data (DML), AHRC Grant AH/L01016X/1
11/2012 – 12/2012 RA Roadmap to Music Information ReSearch (MIReS)
07/2007 – 10/2007 RA Multimedia Understanding through Semantics, Computation and Learning (MUSCLE)
12/2005 – 12/2006 RA Pythagoras II
09/2005 – 11/2005 RA Networked Audiovisual Media Technologies (VISNET I)
06/2005 – 07/2005 RA Multimedia Understanding through Semantics, Computation and Learning (MUSCLE)