Category Archives: research

After getting a number of queries, I’ve realized that I should just put the matlab code for MESSL online, so everyone can use it. Note, however, that this is for noncommercial use only. If you would like to use it … Continue reading →

I’ve put the finishing touches on my dissertation. My defense was at the beginning of September, and my committee didn’t ask for (m)any changes, but there were a few things I wanted to fix up. The official “publication” date will … Continue reading →

Just when you thought I’d given up on this blog…big news! The grant I wrote to the Quebec government came through. I’m going to do a postdoc with Doug Eck at the Universite de Montreal. It should be very cool, … Continue reading →

The funny thing about my research, whether it’s music classification, source separation, or any other sort of machine learning task I can think of, is the difference between developing an algorithm and deploying it. It’s actually harder to develop an … Continue reading →

ISMIR was fun this year. I was pleasantly surprised by the quality of the papers, there were many solid experiments. I added a lot of them to my to-read list. I enjoyed hanging out with the ISMIR crowd, people I … Continue reading →

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 →

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 →

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 →