From douglas at music.columbia.edu Wed Jul 1 07:00:01 2009 From: douglas at music.columbia.edu (douglas repetto) Date: Wed Jul 1 07:00:17 2009 Subject: [music-dsp] [admin] music-dsp FAQ Message-ID: <20090701110001.13766AFDAA5@music.columbia.edu> Hi, Just a reminder that if you are new to the list you should read the music-dsp FAQ. It contains answers to both technical _and_ adminstrative questions that often come up on the list. If your question appears in the FAQ it is safe to assume that it has been discussed on the list many times in the past, and you should probably have a look through the list archives before posting your question to the list. http://music.columbia.edu/cmc/music-dsp/musicdspFAQ.html Also of interest to new and not-so-new list members: The music-dsp list archives http://music.columbia.edu/cmc/music-dsp/musicdsparchives.html The music-dsp source code archive http://www.musicdsp.org music-dsp books and reviews http://music.columbia.edu/cmc/music-dsp/dspbooks.html All this and more at: http://music.columbia.edu/cmc/music-dsp Hasta la pasta, douglas (this is an automated message sent out on the 1st and 15th of each month) From contact at quikquak.com Wed Jul 8 11:26:46 2009 From: contact at quikquak.com (contact) Date: Wed Jul 8 12:20:41 2009 Subject: [music-dsp] Moving average high-pass Message-ID: <00ae01c9ffe0$813633a0$6401a8c0@DaveUpstairs> Hello guys, it's gone a bit quiet again on this list, so here goes!... I hope someone can help. I've been looking at filters that I haven't tried out yet, and found Smith's enthusiasm for the Moving Average filter infectious. Online book ref:- http://www.dspguide.com/ch15/4.htm I found the shape and efficiency to be very nice indeed! - Just one multiply for any number of cascades for example. I would really like the inverse, or high-pass equivalent to this filter, in such that they both add for perfect reconstruction, or near enough. I've tried for a while and achieved something near, but it had a very large ripple in the top end. Is this filter possible? Thanks, Dave From stober at ovgu.de Mon Jul 20 10:50:51 2009 From: stober at ovgu.de (Sebastian Stober) Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 16:50:51 +0200 Subject: [music-dsp] [AMR 2009] July 29th, CFP Extended Deadline Message-ID: <4A64844B.9040501@ovgu.de> [Apologies if you receive multiple copies] -------------------------------------------------------------- The AMR 2009 - 7th International Workshop on Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval, held in Madrid, Spain on September, 24-25, 2009 http://nlp.uned.es/amr2009/ announces: ********************************************************************** CFP DEADLINE EXTENDED FOR PAPER SUBMISSION UNTIL JULY 29TH ********************************************************************** The main reasons for undesired steps in multimedia search are on the one hand, the users' difficulty in specifying their interests in the form of a well-defined query, and on the other hand, the problem of extracting relevant (semantic) features from the multimedia objects. To improve today's retrieval tools and thus the overall satisfaction of a user, it is necessary to develop new techniques able to support the user in the interactive retrieval process. Currently, especially Multimedia Interaction and Dialogue Management techniques as well as affect detection for multimedia content and others are currently promising research directions. The Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval workshop aims to bring researchers, practitioners and companies with specific focus on existing and novel techniques into the field of multimedia retrieval. The goal of this workshop is therefore to intensify the exchange of ideas, to provide an overview of current activities in this area and to point out connections between multimedia, retrieval and artificial intelligence research communities. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Topics of interest: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The workshop focuses especially on researchers that are working on: feature extraction techniques for multimedia, computer linguistic approaches, (dynamic) data analysis methods, interactive machine learning and visualisation methods as well as user interface design. Therefore, contributions to the workshop should focus on, but are not limited to: ? Multimedia retrieval systems (for text, image, audio, video and mixed-media) ? Theoretical foundations of multimedia retrieval and mining ? Intelligent multimedia data modelling, indexing and structure extraction ? Adaptive Hypermedia and web based systems ? Metadata for multimedia retrieval ? Multimedia and multi-modal mining ? Semantic content analysis for multimedia ? Multimedia Interaction and Dialogue Management ? Sentiment Analysis and Affect Detection for Multimedia Content ? Soft Computing in Multimedia Information Retrieval ? Adaptive query languages ? Similarity measures (especially user adaptive measures) ? User and preference modelling (including feedback models) ? Methods for adaptive data visualisation and user interfaces ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Important Dates: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ July 29th, 2009 Extended Deadline August 17th, 2009 Notification of acceptance/rejection September 4th, Final paper submission September 7th, 2009 Early registration deadline Submissions must be original and must not have been submitted for publication elsewhere. Submissions should be formatted according to Springer LNCS style (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). Papers should have about 10 pages but should not exceed 15 pages and should be submitted electronically in PDF or postscript format. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Program Chairs: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Marcin Detyniecki CNRS, LIP6, Paris, France Ana Garcia-Serrano Universidad Nacional de Educaci?n a distancia, Spain Andreas Nuernberger University of Magdeburg, Germany * * * Further details can be found on the Web page of the workshop http:/nlp.uned.es/amr2009/ * * * From mark.plumbley at elec.qmul.ac.uk Thu Jul 23 07:27:02 2009 From: mark.plumbley at elec.qmul.ac.uk (Mark Plumbley) Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 12:27:02 +0100 Subject: [music-dsp] Lecturer in Sound and Music Processing Message-ID: <9A6BBBBE2AAD6746A6D961B5735742620382AFB63A@staff-mail2.vpn.elec.qmul.ac.uk> Dear List, The following post for a Lecturer (similar to Assistant Professor) in Sound and Music Processing in the Centre for Digital Music may be of interest to people on the list. (Apologies for cross-posting.) Best wishes, Mark Plumbley ======================================================================= Lecturer in Sound and Music Processing School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science Queen Mary University of London The School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science was established on 1 August 2008 as a result of the merger between the Departments of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science. The merger created one of the largest Schools within the College, with 60 members of academic staff and a vibrant community of undergraduate and postgraduate students. The School is committed to excellence in research and teaching, and offers a lively and stimulating environment for both staff and students. The School is now looking to appoint a full time, permanent member of academic staff in the area of Sound and Music Processing. Candidates will be expected to demonstrate a strong background in at least one of the Centre for Digital Music's (C4DM) current activities, for example, areas such as music information retrieval, rhythm analysis, music ontologies, semantic systems for musicology and music archives, and DSP of music and audio. Future research areas are expected to be in the science, engineering and technology of sound. The successful candidate will be expected to teach courses such as Machine Learning and Music & Speech Processing as well as undertaking appropriate administrative duties. Applicants should have a Postgraduate degree or a relevant professional qualification (or equivalent professional experience). Evidence of ongoing high level research activity and the ability to contribute (individually or collaboratively) to grant funding applications is essential. Candidates will be expected to demonstrate an ability to effectively organise their time between research, teaching and administration. The post will be available from 1st September 2009 and the post holder would be expected to start as soon as is reasonably practical thereafter. Salary will be in the range of ?37,332 - ?46,518 per annum inclusive of London Allowance. Benefits include 30 days' annual leave, plus four College closure days, an interest free season ticket loan, childcare voucher scheme and a contributory final salary pension scheme. Candidates must be able to demonstrate their eligibility to work in the UK in accordance with the Asylum and Immigration Act 1999. Further details and an application form can be obtained from the Human Resources website on: http://www.hr.qmul.ac.uk/vacancies For informal enquiries about this post, please contact Prof Mark Plumbley, Email: mark.plumbley at elec.qmul.ac.uk. Completed application forms together with a copy of your CV, quoting reference no 09213/KR, should be returned to Julie Macdonald , Room CS/310, School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS, or by e-mail: applications at eecs.qmul.ac.uk The closing date for applications is 5pm on Friday 14th August 2009. Interviews will be held on Wednesday 26th August 2009. Applicants who are not contacted by Monday 24th August 2009 should assume that they were not successful. Valuing Diversity & Committed to Equality -- Prof Mark D Plumbley Electronic Engineering & Computer Science (Eng Bldg) Queen Mary University of London Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK Tel: +44 (0)20 7882 7518 Fax: +44 (0)20 7882 7997 Email: mark.plumbley at elec.qmul.ac.uk http://www.elec.qmul.ac.uk/people/markp/ From w.wang at surrey.ac.uk Tue Jul 28 11:08:51 2009 From: w.wang at surrey.ac.uk (Wenwu Wang) Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:08:51 +0100 Subject: [music-dsp] PhD Studentship at CVSSP, University of Surrey, UK (application deadline 7th August) In-Reply-To: <20090728144011.3CB2579A8@mailscan2.ncs.mcgill.ca> References: <20090724212630.180063847@mailscan4.cc.mcgill.ca> <20090728144011.3CB2579A8@mailscan2.ncs.mcgill.ca> Message-ID: <1248793731.23557.22.camel@cvplws67.eps.surrey.ac.uk> Dear List, Please feel free to share the following message to prospective students who may be interested. Thank you. Apologies if you have received multiple copies. Best wishes, Wenwu Wang ------------------------------------- PhD Studentship in Multimodal Blind Source Separation for Robot Audition Centre for Vision Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP) University of Surrey Applications are invited for a three-year PhD studentship funded by the EPSRC to pursue research in the area of multimodal (audio-visual) blind signal processing with applications to automatic separation of a target speech signal from a mixture of sound sources. The project, starting on Thursday, October 1, 2009, will be focusing on developing novel signal processing algorithms and software tools to explore both auditory and visual data with the aim of enabling a robotic system with certain perceptual abilities of complex auditory scenes. Successful applicants will join the CVSSP, a world-leading research group in sensory (visual and auditory) data analysis and interpretation. CVSSP is one of the largest UK research groups in machine vision and audition with more than 70 researchers. It also has world-class audio and video facilities that are uniquely placed for performing the research in this project. CVSSP forms part of the Department of Electronic Engineering, which received one of the highest ratings (joint second position across the UK) in the last research quality assessment, i.e. 2008 RAE, with 70% of its research classified as either 4* ("world-leading") or 3* ("internationally excellent"). As an additional benefit, the successful applicant has the opportunity to join the DSTL University Defence Research Centre in Signal Processing, which is composed of signal processing researchers from over a dozen of universities across the UK. Entry Requirements Applicants should have a first or 2:1 honours degree or equivalent in electrical and electronic engineering, computer science, mathematical science, statistics, physics, or related disciplines. Applicants should be able to demonstrate excellent mathematical, analytical and computer programming skills. Advantages will be given to the applicants who have experience in one or more areas of audio and speech signal processing, image and video signal processing, blind source separation, and/or machine learning. Funding The studentship includes tuition fees (on a UK/EU rate of approximately ?3,400 per year) and an annual bursary of approximately ?13,000. Prospective students from any nationals are eligible to apply. However, overseas (i.e. non UK/EU) applicants should be prepared to cover the difference in tuition fees, which is approximately ?8,000 per year. How to Apply Applications should include a CV, a covering letter explaining the reason why you are interested in this studentship, a scanned copy of your undergraduate and/or postgraduate transcripts and certificate of qualifications, names and contact details of two referees. Please quote the above studentship in your email or covering letter. Applications should be sent to: Mr James Field Centre for Vision Speech and Signal Processing Department of Electronic Engineering University of Surrey Guildford, Surrey GU2 7XH, UK. E: james.field at surrey.ac.uk For informal inquiries about the studentship, please contact Dr Wenwu Wang, email: w.wang at surrey.ac.uk. Suitable candidates will be shortlisted within one week of the closing date, and then invited for completing the application form and for an interview. For further information about the University of Surrey, please visit www.surrey.ac.uk. The closing date for applications is Friday August 7th 2009. The University is committed to an Equal Opportunities Policy. -- Wenwu Wang Centre for Vision Speech & Signal Processing Department of Electronic Engineering Faculty of Engineering & Physical Sciences University of Surrey Guildford, GU2 7XH, United Kingdom T: +44 (0) 1483 686039 F: +44 (0) 1483 686031 E: w.wang at surrey.ac.uk