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Events for April 19, 2006
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Viterbi Early Career Chair Lecture Series
Wed, Apr 19, 2006
Integrated Media Systems Center
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Mark SandlerProfessor of Signal ProcessingQueen Mary, University of LondonDepartment of Electronic EngineeringHead of Digital Signal Processing and Multimedia GroupDirector of Center for Digital MusicPoster: http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~mucoaco/events/200604-sandler.pdf* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *INTERACTING WITH DIGITAL MUSICWed, April 19, 2006. 14:30-16:00 GER 309Although in a strict sense music went digital over two decades ago with the introduction of the CD, the term Digital Music has come to imply something more than a digital representation, often the inclusion of Internet technologies with music, and always the involvement of computers. By combining the latest Signal Processing techniques with Machine Learning and semantic processing, the latest and future generation Digital Music applications offer some really exciting ways to listen to, search for and interact with music. The talk will begin by looking at some widely available technologies and services for interacting with digital music, and then move on to a view of current research in the area with a look at some recent results from the Centre for Digital Music. Finally, the talk will take a view of the future, and get an idea how today research is informs future generation consumer products, with particular attention to the role of the Semantic Web.* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *CONSTANT Q ANALYSIS AND ITS USE IN MUSIC INFORMATICSThu, April 20, 2006. 14:30-16:00 GER 309This talk will look into some of the signal processing details underpinning current projects in the Centre for Digital Music. We will look at how structural segmentation is performed for the SoundBite demonstrator, and look at mid-level representations and their use in Music Information Retrieval. The analysis of harmony is a topic of some interest at USC, and we will look at how to visualize harmony and tonal change direct from audio, and examine how to segment music based on an analysis of the underlying key. A unifying theme for these topics is the Constant Q Transform, used as our audio front-end.* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *MARK SANDLER is Director of the Centre for Digital Music and Professor of Signal Processing at Queen Mary, University of London, where he moved in 2001 after 19 years at King's College, also in the University of London. Mark received the BSc and PhD degrees from University of Essex, UK, in 1978 and 1984, respectively. Mark has published nearly 300 papers in journals and conferences. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, a Fellow of IEE and a Fellow of the Audio Engineering Society. He is two-times recipient of the IEE A.H.Reeves Premium Prize. In 2003 he was General Chair of DAFx (6th International Workshop on Digital Audio Effects) held at Queen Mary, and in 2005 was General Co-Chair of ISMIR (6th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval) also held at Queen Mary. He is founding Chair of the Audio Engineering Society's Technical Committee on Semantic Audio Analysis, and is on the IEEE Technical Committee of Audio and Electroacoustics. He was founding editor of the EURASIP Journal of Applied Signal Processing, and is consulting editor to Elsevier for books on Audio and Music Signal Processing. He has worked in Digital Signal Processing for Audio and Music for nearly 30 years on a wide variety of topics including: Digital Power amplification; Drum Synthesis; Chaos and Fractals for Analysis and Synthesis; non-linear dynamics; Sigma-Delta Modulation & Direct Stream Digital technologies; Digital EQ; Wavelet Audio compression; high quality audio compression; compression domain processing; Internet Audio Streaming and Scalable coding; Automatic Music Transcription and Musical Feature Extraction; Music Semantics and Knowledge Representation; 3D sound reproduction; time stretching and audio effects.* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *Organizer: Elaine Chew, Viterbi Early Career, Assistant Professor of Industrial and Systems EngineeringSupported in part by the Viterbi Early Career Chair Funds, the Integrated Media Systems Center, and the Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering.For other lectures in the series, please see http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~mucoaco/events/vecc0506.html
Location: Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center (GER) - 309
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Elaine Chew
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Meet USC (AM session)
Wed, Apr 19, 2006 @ 09:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
This half day program is designed for prospective freshmen and family members. Meet USC includes an information session on the University and the Admission process; a student led walking tour of campus and a meeting with us in the Viterbi School. Meet USC is designed to answer all of your questions about USC, the application process and financial aid.Reservations are required for Meet USC. Please call the USC Admission Center at (213) 740-6616 to check availability and to make an appointment. Be sure to tell them you are interested in Engineering!
Location: USC Admission Center
Audiences: Prospective Freshman and Family Members - RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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Cooperation in Wireless Networks: Node Assignment Strategies
Wed, Apr 19, 2006 @ 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Prof. Aria Nosratinia, University of Texas, DallasAbstract: I will discuss cooperative wireless networks, in particular the non-altruistic variety where there are no pure relays and all nodes that are "on" have data of their own to transmit. In this context, a coded cooperation framework will be presented, where cooperation is achieved in the context of channel coding. Then we will proceed to discuss node assignment for cooperation. In general, not all nodes in a wireless network may wish to be involved in every transmission. Therefore, in a multi-node cooperation protocol, one needs strategies of grouping the nodes. Such strategies are examined under two types of constraints: distributed control and centralized control. We shall see that there exist simple distributed strategies that guarantee full diversity (in the number of decoding attempts) over the network. Since the distributed strategies already achieve full diversity, centralized control does not provide any additional diversity gain, however, based on various amounts of channel state information being available to the central controller, significant gains are still possible over and above distributed control. These gains are characterized under a variety of conditions.Bio: Aria Nosratinia is associate professor of electrical engineering at the University of Texas, Dallas (UTD). Currently he is spending a sabbatical leave at UCLA. Aria received his Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has been a visiting scholar with Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey and a visiting professor and faculty fellow at Rice University, Houston, Texas. His interests lie in the broad area of information theory, coding and signal processing, in particular various problems related to wireless networks and transmission of multimedia data over such networks. He received the National Science Foundation career award in January 2000. He serves as associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing and IEEE Wireless Communications.Host: Professor Giuseppe Caire, caire@usc.edu, x.04683
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - -248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mayumi Thrasher
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Resume Workshop
Wed, Apr 19, 2006 @ 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 211
Audiences: Undergraduate and Graduate Engineers
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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Meet USC (PM session)
Wed, Apr 19, 2006 @ 01:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
This half day program is designed for prospective freshmen and family members. Meet USC includes an information session on the University and the Admission process; a student led walking tour of campus and a meeting with us in the Viterbi School. Meet USC is designed to answer all of your questions about USC, the application process and financial aid.Reservations are required for Meet USC. Please call the USC Admission Center at (213) 740-6616 to check availability and to make an appointment. Be sure to tell them you are interested in Engineering!
Location: USC Admission Center
Audiences: Prospective Freshman and Family Members - RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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Viterbi Career Services Walk-In Hours
Wed, Apr 19, 2006 @ 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Student Activity
Please feel free to come in during these walk-in hours! No appointment is necessary. Come in for resume reviews, internship information, to salary negotiations!
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 218
Audiences: Undergraduate/Graduate Engineering Students
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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An “Engineerâ€s-Eye†View to Product Development in the Capital Equipment Industry
Wed, Apr 19, 2006 @ 05:30 PM - 07:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
Presenters: Leonard Borrmann, Sr. VP R&D Advanced Medical Optics, Inc. and Ken Kadziauskas, Director Worldwide Marketing
Location: Von Kleinsmid Center For International & Public Affairs (VKC) - 156
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: IEEE
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Avago Technologies Information Session
Wed, Apr 19, 2006 @ 05:30 PM - 07:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Join representatives of this company as they share general company information and available opportunities.
Location: Grace Ford Salvatori Hall Of Letters, Arts & Sciences (GFS) - 106
Audiences: Undergraduate/Graduate Engineering Students
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
