8 Sep 2014

Mark Sandler, from the Centre for Digital Music of Queen Mary University of London, gives a seminar on monday September 8th 2104 at 15:00h in room 55.309 on "Semantic Audio: combining semantic web technology with audio analysis".

Abstract: The seminar will present some of the latest research from the Centre for Digital Music in Semantic Audio, where appropriate by means of demos. These will include the use of semantic linked data to create music browsing applications, the use of content analysis in recording studios to improve the quality of audio features and music informatics applications, and music recommendation based on mood. It will end with a few ideas on Computational Audio - where computer science meets audio processing.

Bio: Professor Mark Sandler has been applying Digital Signal Processing to problems in audio and music since the late 1970s, and is one of the pioneers of the area known as Music Informatics. He currently specialises in the use of Semantic Technologies for Audio and Music. He has published over 400 papers and graduated over 30 PhD students. He was the Principal Investigator of the pioneering UK-funded OMRAS2 project (omras2.org) and the local PI on SIMAC, which was led from UPF. He recently completed a collaborative grant with BBC and I Like Music in the area of music and emotion, named Making Musical Mood Metadata (http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/projects/making-musical-mood-metadata) which explored the use of mood in music recommendation systems, and has just started a 5 year grant, Fusing Audio and Semantic Technologies for Intelligent Music Production and Consumption. He is currently Chief Scientist of the Centre for Digital Music.