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:

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.

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.

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).

I recently had the pleasure to be featured in a Meet My Lab on "Mathematics & Music - A Synergetic Duo for Automatic Music Generation", together with Prof. Elaine Chew. These sessions are organized by Euraxess, European Commission. [scroll down for video]

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.

Recent PhD graduate Dr. Abigail Lee-Leon, Prof Chau Yuen, and myself just published a paper on 'Underwater Acoustic Communication Receiver Using Deep Belief Network' in IEEE Transactions on Communications. Preprint link. Underwater communications is a challenging field due to the many interferences in the channel (e.g. Doppler effect, boats, fish, etc.). This paper uses a novel deep learning approach to model the receiver.

Congrats Kin Wai (Raven), on this interesting paper on leveraging spectrogram reconstruction for music transcription, which was accepted at the International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR2020). Read the preprint here.

Cheuk K.W., Luo Y.J., Benetos E., Herremans D.. 2021. The Effect of Spectrogram Reconstructions on Automatic Music Transcription: An Alternative Approach to Improve Transcription Accuracy. Proceedings of the International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR2020).

Our team at Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) is looking for an RA for 6 months to help develop nnAudio. You will be joining our team in music/audio/vision AI supervised by Prof. Dorien Herremans. More information on the music/audio team at dorienherremans.com/team. You will be working on the PyTorch audio processing tool nnAudio developed by Cheuk Kin Wai at our lab.