Department of Computational Perception

News

• Nov, 2017: New open funded Ph.D. positions (at CP.JKU and other institutions) in the EU Marie Sklodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network (MSCA-ITN-ETN) New Frontiers in Music Information Processing. For a list of PhD projects and industry/cultural partners involved, and who to contact, see http://mip-frontiers.eecs.qmul.ac.uk.
  
  
• Nov, 2017: Markus Schedl to co-organize a workshop on "Intelligent Music Interfaces for Listening and Creation" at the ACM Intelligent User Interfaces 2018 conference.
  
  
• Oct, 2017: Demonstration of first prototype of our expressive accompaniment system The Accompanion v0.1 at the Late Breaking / Demo Papers Session at the ISMIR 2017 Conference, Suzhou, China.
  Demo Videos on a Bösendorfer CEUS: Mozart Sonata K.545, 2nd mvt. (Werner Goebl); "The Wild Geese" (Gerhard Widmer)
  
  
• Oct, 2017: CP.JKU guest researcher Jan Hajic jr. (visiting from ÚFAL, Charles University Prague) and his team win the Internet of Emotions Hack Challenge at the Waves Vienna Music Hackday 2017 with Project "Trumpet" - a hack for reading back tweets with an appropriately (melo)dramatic voice and background music.
  
  
• Aug, 2017: CP.JKU Team (Khaled Koutini, Alina Imenina, Matthias Dorfer, Alexander Gruber, Markus Schedl) achieves the top results in the 2017 AcousticBrainz Genre Task at the MediaEval Benchmarking Initiative for Multimedia Evaluation.
  Here is is a report on how we did it.
  
  
• Aug, 2017: New research opportunities for Ph.D. students and PostDocs:
  A number of open research positions in at our department, in the context of the Con Espressione Project!
  
  
• Aug, 2017: Highly Commended Award in the 2017 Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence for Andreas Mladenow, Christine Bauer and Christine Strauss for their paper "Crowd logistics" in the International Journal of Web Information Systems.
  
  
• May, 2017: New project and opportunity for international PhD students at CP: Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action - Innovative Training Network (MSCA-ITN-ETN) New Frontiers in Music Information Processing (MIP-Frontiers) (4 years; 2017 - 2021) will be funded by the European Commission! Project to start in September 2017.
  
  
• April, 2017: New inter-disciplinary project on Computer-assisted Analysis of Herbert von Karajan's Musical Conducting Style (3 years; 2017 - 2020) will be funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF); project will start in June 2017.
  
  
• 2017-04-13: Gerhard Widmer to talk at the Karajan Music Tech Conference as part of the 50th Easter Festival (Osterfestspiele), Salzburg.
  
  
• Mar 9, 2017: Our drum robot won the second place in the IEEE Signal Processing Cup among 21 competitors. Besides tracking beats, it can also detect the beginning of a bar (downbeat) and the guitar pattern that is played by a musician in real-time. The whole system runs on a Raspberry Pi 3.
  
  
• Jan 13, 2017: Our BasisMixer computational model of expressive music performance is said to have passed a musical "Turing Test" (producing a piano performance whose "humanness" as judged by listeners is undistinguishable from a human musician's [and ranking best, in this respect, among a number of algorithms]) in a recent study ("Algorithms Can Mimic Human Piano Performance") by E. Schubert et al., published in J.New.Mus.Res. (Jan. 2017)
  
  
• Dec 27, 2016: FWF project "Social Media Mining for Multimodal Music Retrieval" led by Markus Schedl in the media
  
  
• Jul 27, 2016: CP Team (Hamid Eghbal-Zadeh, Bernhard Lehner, Matthias Dorfer) achieves Ranks 1 and 2 (among 49 competing entries) in the Audio Scene Classification Task at the DCASE 2016 Acoustic Event Detection and Classification Challenge. Here is a report on how we did it.
  
  
• Jun 23, 2016: Gerhard Widmer named "Vorarlberger des Jahres z'Wian 2016"
  
  
• Apr 16, 2016: Article in Wiener Zeitung - Future on Gerhard Widmer's ERC-funded Con Espressione project: "Wie musikalisch ein Computer sein kann"
  
  
• Dec 22, 2015: cp.jku graduate Stefan Neumüller wins the Adolf-Adam-Award 2015 for distinguished master's theses in computer science for his thesis "Active Appearance Models for Face Recognition"
  
  
• Nov 25, 2015: Portrait of Gerhard Widmer in Science Magazine Heureka: "Musikwahrnehmung im Computer"
  
  
• Nov 02, 2015: Best Paper Award for Andreas Arzt and Gerhard Widmer at the 16th International Society for Music Information Retrieval conference (ISMIR 2015) for their paper Real-Time Music Tracking Using Multiple Performances as a Reference
  
  
• Oct 15, 2015: Article in Die Presse on the ERC-funded Con Espressione project: "Musik verstehen mit dem Computer"
  
  
• Oct 12, 2015: Gerhard Widmer to give a public ARTEMATICA 2015 Wolfgang Pauli Lecture on the Con Espressione project, at the Künstlerhaus Vienna
  
  
• Aug 13, 2015: Video of Gerhard Widmer controlling a performance on the Bösendorfer CEUS computer-monitored piano via a Midi Theremin (with interview; produced by Austrian Science Fund FWF)
  
  
• Aug 13, 2015: Portrait of Gerhard Widmer in SciLog (E-Magazine of the Austrian Science Fund FWF): "Abseits vom Mainstream" (German); "Beyond the Mainstream" (English).
  
  
• Jul 01, 2015: Interview mit Gerhard Widmer in Der Standard: "Musik braucht eine bestimmte Menge Redundanz" (online: "Musik braucht Wiederholungen")
  
  
• Jun 19, 2015: Richard Vogl wins the prizes for Best Bitalino Hack and Best Juce Hack at the Music Hack Day 2015 in Barcelona (watch the presentation of his hack)
  
  
• Jun 02, 2015: Call for Papers: ACM TIST Special Issue on Intelligent Music Systems and Applications
  
  
• May 04, 2015: Gerhard Widmer receives an ERC Advanced Grant from the European Research Council (ERC): € 2.3 million for the project Con Espressione
  
  
• May 03, 2015: Call for Papers for the 2nd International Workshop on Social Media Retrieval and Analysis in conjunction with IEEE ICDM 2015, Atlantic City, NJ, USA
  
  
• Feb 14, 2015: Two articles in Die Presse on cp.jku research: "Eine Sinfonie mit gewissen Extras" und "Der digitale DJ empfiehlt die beste Melodie" (print article)
  
  
• Feb 07, 2015: World premiere in the Concertgebouw Amsterdam: Our live music tracking system successfully followed a live performance of Richard Strauss' Alpensinfonie by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Here's an article on this in Die Presse and a radio interview on Ö1.
  
  
• Feb 05, 2015: Radio interview with Gerhard Widmer on the upcoming Concertgebouw concert in Ö1 Kulturjournal (MP3) and Ö1 Mittagsjournal (MP3)
  
  
• Dec 17, 2014: Gerhard Widmer on the PHENICX project and the upcoming AI-augmented concert by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam in Der Standard and Wiener Zeitung
  
  
• Oct 01, 2014: Call for Papers: UMUAI - Special Issue on Physiology in Personalized Systems
  
  
• Sep 06, 2014: Best Student Paper Award for the paper "Quad-Based Audio Fingerprinting Robust to Time and Frequency Scaling" by Reinhard Sonnleitner and Gerhard Widmer at the 17th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx 2014), Erlangen, Germany
  
  
• Sep 01, 2014: Best PAIS Demo Award for the "The Piano Music Companion" by A. Arzt, S. Böck, S. Flossmann, H. Frostel, M. Gasser, C.C.S. Liem, and G. Widmer at the 8th International Conference on the Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems (PAIS 2014) in conjunction with the 21st European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2014), Prague, Czech Republic
  
  
• May 13, 2014: Artikel auf nachrichten.at: "Königliches Orchester spielt mit Computerprogramm der Kepler-Uni"
  
  
• May 06, 2014: cp.jku researcher Andreas Arzt named Oberösterreicher des Tages
  
  
• Mar 26, 2014: CP & OFAI Score-Performance Alignment Technology integrated into Issue # 5 (on Beethoven's 3rd Symphony) of the e-magazine RCO Editions (iPad-based e-magazine by the world-famous Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam)!
  
  
• Mar 13, 2014: Call for Papers: UMUAI - Special Issue on Personality in Personalized Systems
  
  
• Jan 29, 2014: Best Paper Award and Best Demo Award at the AES 53rd International Conference on Semantic Audio, London, UK
  
  
• Best Paper: "Bridging the Audio-Symbolic Gap: The Discovery of Repeated Note Content Directly From Polyphonic Music Audio" by T. Collins, S. Böck, F. Krebs, and G. Widmer
  
  
• Best Demo: "The Complete Classical Music Companion V0.9" by A. Arzt, S. Böck, S. Flossmann, H. Frostel, M. Gasser, and G. Widmer
  
  
• Oct 16, 2013: Artikel über Markus Schedl und Forschungsprojekt FWF P22856-N23 in Bild der Wissenschaft: "Immer den passenden Groove"
  
  
• May 05, 2013: Artikel über Gerhard Widmer in Die Presse am Sonntag: "Wie Computer hören lernen"
  
  
• Apr 03, 2013: Artikel in Der Standard über cp.jku Forschungsprojekt FWF P22856-N23: "Der Alltag bestimmt den Rhythmus"
    >> siehe auch weitere Artikel in OÖ Nachrichten, krone.at, APA Science, Österreich Journal und Bezirksrundschau
  
  
• Mar 20, 2013: Artikel über Gerhard Widmer im Universum Magazin: "Herr der leisen Töne"
  
  
• Feb 13, 2013: Exciting new topics for student projects and Master's theses in the context of the PHENICX project
  
  
• Feb 01, 2013: New EU-FP7 project Performances as Highly Enriched aNd Interactive Concert eXperiences (PHENICX) started
  
  
• Oct 03, 2012: The cp.jku powered ISMIR 2012 Cloud Browser is online
  
  
• Aug 31, 2012: Das Institut für Computational Perception ist übersiedelt. Sie finden uns nun im Science Park 3, 4. Stock.
  
  
• May 14, 2012: cp.jku's former PhD student Dominik Schnitzer and his Wolperdinger large-scale music recommender are featured on Science ORF.at and Ö1 Wissen aktuell
  
  
• Apr 23, 2012: Gerhard Widmer and Peter Knees presented our arts project sound/tracks at the ERC Gala in the Aula der Wissenschaften in a live performance on a Bösendorfer CEUS Grand Piano
  
  
• Feb 19, 2012: New Section: Hall of Fame
  
  
• Feb 02, 2012: cp.jku's team "Die Polarkoordinatoren" wins the 6th annual Johannes Kepler University Ice Stock Sport Competition (also known as Bavarian Curling)
  
  
• Jan 12, 2012: cp.jku is co-organizing the 4th International Workshop on Advances in Music Information Research – AdMIRe 2012: "The Web of Music" in conjunction with the www conference in Lyon, France
  
  
• Jan 12, 2012: Our arts project sound/tracks has been exhibited at the Media Arts Festival in Miyazaki, Japan
  
  
• Nov 06, 2011: cp.jku researcher Klaus Seyerlehner receives the Award of Excellence 2011 for his excellent PhD thesis
  
  
• Mar 02, 2011: Artikel in den Univationen: "Musikähnlichkeit genau berechnet"
  
  
• Feb 19, 2011: Artikel in den OÖ Nachrichten: "Computer mit Musikgeschmack als Konkurrenz zu Guetta"
  
  
• Feb 08, 2011: Well-funded PhD scholarships from National University of Singapore (NUS) are available. In case of interest, please contact Markus Schedl.
  
  
• Dec 08, 2010: Our arts project sound/tracks has been selected as Jury Recommended Work at the 14th Japan Media Arts Festival
  

• Nov 15, 2010: cp.jku is co-organizing AdMIRe 2011: 3rd International Workshop on Advances in Music Information Research
  
  
• Sep 29, 2010: Artikel über cp.jku und Gerhard Widmer in Die Presse: "In Linz lernen Computer das Zuhören"
  
  
• cp.jku co-organized the 8th International Workshop on Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval (AMR 2010) held on 17-18 August 2010 at the Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria.
  
  
• Mar 11, 2010: New version of CoMIRVA released! (CoMIRVA v0.36)
  
  
• Jan 28, 2010: Gerhard Widmer im Die Furche Feuilleton: "Künstliche Musik"
  
  
• Jan 15, 2010: cp.jku co-organizes the 2nd International Workshop on Advances in Music Information Research (AdMIRe 2010) to be held conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) in Singapore
  
  
• Jan 03, 2010: Programmhinweis: Am Dienstag, den 12.01.2010 um 21:00 sendet BR-alpha die Dokumentation "Stil und Interpretation - Fingerprints der Musik" - Porträt Prof. Gerhard Widmer
  
  
• Jan 02, 2010: Fernsehbeitrag über Gerhard Widmer in Oberösterreich Heute
  
  
• Oct 11, 2009: Computational Music Similarity Measure by Tim Pohle and Dominik Schnitzer ranks first at MIREX 2009 Audio Music Similarity and Retrieval eXchange  (here is a graphical summary of result; PS = Pohle&Schnitzer)
  
  
• Oct 19, 2009: Gerhard Widmer receives the highly prestigious Austrian Wittgenstein-Preis 2009
  
  
• Aug 10, 2009: FM4 Soundpark launches 3D Music Interface for content-based music recommendation based on cp.jku's nepTune project in collaboration with OFAI.

• Aug 10, 2009: Article about "Mots" in "ORF.at Futurezone".

• Jul 07, 2009: Article about "Mots" in "Der Standard".
  
  
• Apr 29, 2009: cp.jku will co-organize the International Workshop on Advances in Music Information Research (AdMIRe) 2009 to be held in December, 2009 in San Diego, CA, USA

• Apr 01, 2009: Gerhard Widmer will give a public presentation at the Linz'09 Kepler Salon. (18.05.2009)
  
  
• Mar 31, 2009: Gerhard Widmer will be one of the invited speakers at this year's International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'09), Pasadena, California

• Mirage - An Automatic Playlist Generation Extension for Banshee, a popular Linux Media Player, was included in two major Linux distributions: Redhat Fedora and Ubuntu. Mirage is an Open Source Project developed at the Department of Computational Perception.

• Pre-concert talk by Werner Goebl at the Philharmonie Luxembourg prior to a concert featuring Evgeny Kissin performing Chopin and Prokofiev (Nov 26, 2008, 19:15, Salle de Concerts Grande-Duchesse Joséphine-Charlotte).

• cp.jku's expressive performance rendering system YQX won the Rencon Award, the Rencon Technical Award, and the Rencon Murao Award, at the 7th Contest for Performance Rendering Systems (Rencon '08), in Sapporo, Japan. Hear the results and read related press articles in our Media section.

• Our arts project sound/tracks has been featured at ACM Multimedia Interactive Arts Exhibition 2008 in Vancouver, Canada