Monthly Archives: August 2008

NYC Triathlon 2008

Posted on August 24, 2008 by mim

I did the New York City Triathlon again this year, it was fun, but tough. I didn’t train as much for it this time, especially the swim, but I did ok. This year Joanne, Mom, and Dad all came to … Continue reading →

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Journal of New Music Research

Posted on August 14, 2008 by mim

The journal version of lat year’s ISMIR paper is ready to be published. The main addition is an analysis of the tags we’ve collected with the game, including a comparison with tags for the same music from Last.fm. In these … Continue reading →

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MIREX Audio Tag Classification

Posted on August 13, 2008 by mim

Every time I write about MajorMiner, people ask when I’m going to make the data publicly available. Well, I’m starting to do that by building a MIREX task around it. The task is officially called the Audio Tag Classification task … Continue reading →

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Interspeech 2008

Posted on August 12, 2008 by mim

Ron had a paper accepted to Interspeech this year about adding speech models (source priors) to MESSL. It is entitled, “Source separation based on binaural cues and source model constraints.” As much as I’d like to go, Brisbane, Australia is … Continue reading →

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ISMIR 2008

Posted on August 11, 2008 by mim

My paper was accepted to ISMIR this year in Philadelphia. It uses the MajorMiner data we’ve collected to explore the relationship between different granularities of music metadata. That is to say, we compare the accuracy with which clip-level audio classifiers … Continue reading →

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