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Dr Simon Dixon
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Matthias Mauch (Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow, 2012-2016) |
Software Systems for Computer-Aided Music Understanding |
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Alo Allik (RA Oct 2012 - May 2013) |
A Shared Open Vocabulary for Audio Research and Retrieval |
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Amélie Anglade (PhD student) |
Logic-based Modelling of Musical Harmony for Automatic Characterisation, Classification and Recommendation |
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Lesley Mearns (PhD student) |
Automatic Style Characterisation Using High-Level Musical Features |
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Magdalena Chudy (PhD student and RA) |
Music Performer Recognition Using Timbre Features (PhD) and Roadmap for Music Information ReSearch (RA) |
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Holger Kirchhoff (PhD student, co-supervised with Anssi Klapuri) |
Semi-Automatic Music Transcription |
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Peter Foster (PhD student, co-supervised with Anssi Klapuri) |
Audio-based Music Structure Analysis and Prediction |
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Yading Song (PhD student) |
Music Recommendation |
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Robert Tubb (PhD student) |
Navigation and Control in Musical Parameter Spaces |
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Tian Cheng (PhD student) |
Multi-instrument Music Transcription using Non-negative Matrix Decomposition Methods and Physical Models |
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Siddharth Sigtia (PhD student) |
Deep Learning |
Completed PhDs
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Emmanouil Benetos (PhD student, completed Dec 2012) |
Automatic Transcription of Polyphonic Music Exploiting Temporal Evolution |
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Robert Macrae (PhD student, completed March 2012) |
Linking Music Metadata |
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Matthias Mauch (PhD student, completed March 2010) |
Automatic Chord Transcription from Audio using Computational Models of Musical Context |
Recently Finished
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Stephen Welburn (RA Dec 2011 - Feb 2013) |
Sustainable Management of Digital Music Research Data (2011-12) and Sound Data Management Training (2012-13) |
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Joachim Ganseman (Visiting PhD Student, November 2011 - September 2012) |
Sinusoidal modeling based on score-to-audio alignment |
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Marco Fabiani (RA October 2011 - May 2012) |
Sustainable Management of Digital Music Research Data |
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Adam Stark (RA Dec 2011 - Mar 2012) |
Musicology for the Masses |
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Xue Wen (RA Dec 2011 - Mar 2012) |
Musicology for the Masses |
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Dan Stowell (RA Sept 2010 - March 2012) |
Musicology for the Masses |
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Mathieu Barthet (RA Sept 2010 - Nov 2011) |
Musicology for the Masses |
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Ivan Damnjanovic (RA Oct-Nov 2011) |
Sustainable Management of Digital Music Research Data |
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Asma Rafiq (MPhil student) |
Modeling Users' Intentions for the Enhancement of Music Recommendation Systems |
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Barry Norton (RA April-July 2011) |
Linked Music Metadata |
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Thomas Gängler (RA July 2011) |
Linked Music Metadata |
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Cedric Mesnage (RA March-July 2011) |
Linked Music Metadata |
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Kurt Jacobson (Research Assistant, 2010) |
Linked Music Metadata |
Projects
- Principal investigator on JISC project Sound Data Management Training (SoDaMaT), £57k, June 2012 - Feb 2013
- Principal investigator on JISC project A shared open vocabulary for audio research and retrieval (SOVARR), £69k, October 2012 - May 2013
- Principal investigator on JISC project Sustainable Management of Digital Music Research Data, £89k, Oct 2011 - May 2012
- Principal investigator (for QMUL) on EU FP7 project MIReS: Roadmap for Music Information ReSearch, €81k (to QMUL), Oct 2011 - Mar 2013
- Principal investigator on RCUK Digital Economy project EP/I001832/1 Musicology for the Masses, £250k, Sep 2010 - Feb 2012
- Principal investigator on JISC-funded Linked Music Metadata project, £95k, Aug 2010 - July 2011
- Co-investigator on EPSRC project EP/K009559/1 Platform Grant: Digital Music, £1161k, 2013-2018
- Co-investigator on TSB project 12033-76187, Making Musical Mood Metadata - M4, £145k, 2011-2013
- Co-investigator for EPSRC project EP/H043101/1 Sustainable Software for Digital Music and Audio Research, £947k, 2010-2014
- Co-investigator on WWTF-funded project AudioMiner: Mathematical Signal Analysis and Modeling for Manipulation of Sound Objects, €484k, 2010-2012
- Co-investigator on EPSRC-funded OMRAS-2 Project EP/E017614/1 Online Music Recognition And Searching: A Distributed Research Environment for Music Informatics and Computational Musicology, 2007-2010
- Co-investigator on Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF) project Interfaces to Music, 2004-2007
- Researcher on EU 6th FP STREP Project Semantic Interaction with Music Audio Contents (SIMAC), 2004-2006
- Researcher on Gerhard Widmer's START Research Prize project Computer-Based Music Research: Artificial Intelligence Models of Musical Expression, 1999-2005
- Researcher on EU 5th FP RTN Project: Music Orchestration Systems in Algorithmic Research and Technology (MOSART), 2000-2003
Press
Articles about some of these projects have appeared in:- New York Times, NYT Arts and Leisure, June 5, 2005
- Die Presse, 1 June 2004 (in German)
- FORMAT Science, 19 March 2004 (in German)
- Wired Magazine, Sept 2001, pp 100-112
- Der Spiegel, Nr.23/3.6.02, pp174-176 (in German)
Downloads
Beat tracking software BeatRoot (requires: Java, any platform)
Audio alignment software
MATCH (requires: Java, any platform)
MATCH is also available as a
VAMP plugin for
Sonic Visualiser. There is a tutorial
here
.
Slides from the ISMIR 2006 Tutorial on Computational Rhythm Description, presented by Fabien Gouyon and Simon Dixon.
Biography
I completed my BSc(Hons) (1986-1989) and PhD (1990-1994) degrees in Computer Science at the University of Sydney, and also learnt Classical Guitar at the NSW Conservatorium of Music, obtaining the AMusA (1987) and LMusA (1988). I was a lecturer in Computer Science at Flinders University of South Australia from 1994 until mid 1999, and a research scientist in the Intelligent Music Processing Group at the Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence from 1999 to 2006. In December 2006 I joined QMUL's Centre for Digital Music as a lecturer, where I lead the Music Informatics area. I was Programme Co-chair for the 8th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (2007), and General Co-chair for the Dagstuhl Seminar on Multimodal Music Processing (2011) and the 9th International Symposium on Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval (CMMR 2012): Music and Emotions. I am President Elect of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval; on the Editorial Board of the Journal of New Music Research, the Advisory Board of the Music Information Retrieval Evaluation Exchange (MIREX), and the Music and Science Steering Group of the University of London's Institute of Musical Research.