Viterbi Early Career Chair Lecture Series

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