Highlights/Upcoming events

New paper on the emoMV datasets published in Information Fusion

Congratulations to Thao on leading the publication of the EmoMV dataset set for music-video matching based on emotion!

Pham Q-H, Herremans D., Roig G.. 2022. EmoMV: Affective Music-Video Correspondence Learning Datasets for Classification and Retrieval. Information Fusion. DOI: 10.1016/j.inffus.2022.10.002

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Keynote at AIMC

I was honoured to give a keynote talk at the 3rd Conference on AI Music Creativity (AIMC) on controllable music generation with emotion. Watch the full keynote here:

New paper in Sensors on Single Image Video Prediction with Auto-Regressive GANs

Congrats on my former research assistant Jiahui Huang on his latest paper in Sensors on 'Single Image Video Prediction with Auto-Regressive GANs'. Now we can generate videos of faces with desired emotions!

Full paper available here.

Huang, Jiahui, Yew Ken Chia, Samson Yu, Kevin Yee, Dennis Küster, Eva G. Krumhuber, Dorien Herremans, and Gemma Roig. "Single Image Video Prediction with Auto-Regressive GANs." Sensors 22, no. 9 (2022): 3533.

Seminar on music and AI at KTH

It was an honour today to be part of the seminar at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm as part of the dialogues series.

dialogues1: probing the future of creative technology
Subject: “Interaction with generative music frameworks”

Guests: Dorien Herremans and Kıvanç Tatar (Video link to be posted)

Dorien Herremans: Controllable deep music generation with emotion

AI and you - podcast

Excited to be featured on the latest 'AI and You - What is AI? How will it affect your life, your work, and your world?' podcast by Peter Scott from Human Cusp.

We're focusing on AI in music: What's the state of the art in AI music composition, how can human composers use it to their advantage, and what is the AI Song Contest? How do musical AIs surprise their creators and how are they like your grandmother trying to explain death metal?

ReconVAT presented in ACM Multimedia

Congrats to Kin Wa Cheuk for his published paper in the ACM Multimedia conference (A*) on 'ReconVAT: A Semi-Supervised Automatic Music Transcription Framework for Low-Resource Real-World Data'. If you are interested in training low-data music transcription models with semi-supervised learning, check out the full paper here, or access the preprint.

Watch Raven's talk here:

Paper published on our game for climate change (PEAR) in Sustainability

Over the last few years, we developed Project PEAR at SUTD Game Lab. Project PEAR is a geolocation based augmented reality game that is aimed at educating the player on climate change as well as influence their behaviours. We just published a study in Sustainability on the effectiveness of this game.

aiSTROM -- A roadmap for developing a successful AI strategy published in IEEE Access

Leading countless AI projects has left me very aware of all the challenges we may encounter during the development process. Therefore, I created a roadmap for AI managers and consultants to follow when creating an AI strategy, so they can better navigate the road to a successful AI strategy. The aiSTROM roadmap was just published in IEEE AccessRead the full article here.

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Research assistant / postdoc jobs in Music/Audio and AI

Our team at Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) is looking for an RA or postdoc in music and AI. You will be joining our AMAAI Lab in music/audio/vision AI supervised by Prof. Dorien Herremans. At our lab, we aim to advance the state-of-the-art in AI for music and audio. More information on the music/audio team here. We have multiple research lines going that need your expertise, either in symbolic music (midi) as well as audio.

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Book chapter on Musical stylometry: Characterisation of music

I'm quite excited to announce the book chapter I wrote with Emeritus Prof. P. Kroonenberg from the University of Leiden. Prof. Kroonenberg just published an amazingly meticulous and interesting book on Multivariate Humanities, and I was happy to collaborate with him on the chapter "Musical stylometry: Characterisation of music" (pp. 347-370).

Joint internship with Sounders Music

I'm excited to announce this internship opportunity with Sounder Music in the Netherlands. This internship in data analytics for music will be (remotely) co-supervised by myself (Prof. Dorien Herremans) and the founder of Sounders Music (Willem Bloem). Send Willem a message if you are interested with subject [Sounders internship] to willem [period] bloem [aat] noticesound.com. Ideally we can come to a research publication at the end of the project.

New roadmap paper on the role of music technology for health care and well-being

Two years ago, I attended the Lorenz workshop on Music, Health, and Computing in at the University of Leiden. After a long and thorough process, a roadmap paper was published. All of the workshop attendees, who are experts in either music therapy or music technology, put their heads together, to create this important roadmap for the future of this new interdisciplinary field.

Three IJCNN papers from the AMAAI lab this year!

I'm very happy to announce that our lab had three papers accepted at the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) on the topics of controllable music generation with emotion and structure, as well as audio transcription. More info on these three projects below:

Makris D., Agres K., Herremans D.. 2021. Sen2Seq: A Conditional seq2seq Framework for Generating Lead Sheets with Sentiment. Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN). Download preprint.

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