Peter Knees

Dr. Peter Knees

Department of Computational Perception
Johannes Kepler University (JKU)
Altenberger Str. 69, 4040 Linz, Austria
TNF-Tower, 7th floor
Room 726

Current Position

Research

Research Interests

Publications

A list of my publications can be found here.

Invited Talks

"Landscapes from Music, Music from Landscapes", Artist's Presentation, 14th Japan Media Arts Festival, National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan, February 2011.
"Context-Based Music Similarity Estimation", Invited Talk (jointly with Markus Schedl), 3rd Workshop on Learning the Semantics of Audio Signals (LSAS 2009), Graz, Austria, December 2009.
"Integrating Context and Content to Search for Music via Natural Language Queries", Seminar Talk, Queen Mary University, London, UK, April 2008.

Current Projects

Past Projects

Scientific Services

Organization of Conferences and Workshops

Program Chair and Co-Organizer of the 3rd International Workshop on Advances in Music Information Research (AdMIRe 2011), Barcelona, Spain.
Program Chair and Local Organizer of the 8th International Workshop on Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval (AMR 2010), Linz, Austria.
Program Chair and Co-Organizer of the 2nd International Workshop on Advances in Music Information Research (AdMIRe 2010), Singapore.
Program Chair and Co-Organizer of the International Workshop on Advances in Music Information Research (AdMIRe 2009), San Diego, USA.

Service on Program Committees

Program Committee Member of the 9th International Workshop on Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval (AMR 2011), Barcelona, Spain.
Program Committee Member of the Workshop on Music Recommendation and Discovery (Womrad 2010), Barcelona, Spain.
Member of the Technical Program Committee of ACM Multimedia Interactive Arts Program 2010, Florence, Italy.
Member of the Technical Program Committee of ACM Multimedia Interactive Arts Program 2009, Beijing, China.

Reviews

Curriculum Vitae

Education

December 2010:	Graduation (with distinction) from Johannes Kepler University Linz, Academic Degree: Dr. techn. (PhD equivalent)
2005 – 2010:	Ph.D. Study in Computer Science at Johannes Kepler University Linz
February 2005:	Graduation in Computer Science (Informatik) at Vienna University of Technology, Academic Degree: Diplom-Ingenieur (MSc equivalent)
since 2004:	Diploma Study in Psychology at University of Vienna
2000 – 2005:	Diploma Study in Computer Science (Informatik) at Vienna University of Technology
June 2000:	Graduation from High School (Matura mit ausgezeichnetem Erfolg) “Pass with High Distinction”, Final Result: 1.0 (Maximum: 1.0)
1992 – 2000:	Bundesrealgymnasium Rahlgasse, Vienna (High School)

Awards, Prizes, etc.

2010	Jury Recommendation for the project sound/tracks in the Art Division of the 14th Japan Media Arts Festival
2007	Best Student Paper Award at the 6th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM 2007) for the Paper "One-Touch Access to Music on Mobile Devices" by D. Schnitzer, T. Pohle, P. Knees, and G. Widmer
2006	Runner-up for Best Paper Award at the ACM Multimedia 2006 for the Paper "An Innovative Three-Dimensional User Interface for Exploring Music Collections Enriched with Meta-Information from the Web" by P. Knees, M. Schedl, T. Pohle, and G. Widmer
2003 and 2004:	Received Achievement Scholarship (Leistungsstipendium) from Vienna University of Technology

Practical Experience

since 2011:	Assistant Professor at the Department of Computational Perception, Johannes Kepler University Linz
2009:	Civilian National Service at Verein Wiener Sozialprojekte - ChEck iT!
2005 – 2010:	Project Assistant at the Department of Computational Perception, Johannes Kepler University Linz
since 2005:	Conceptual Design, Visual Design, and Maintenance of the Webpage of the Department of Computational Perception, JKU Linz: http://www.cp.jku.at
2004:	Tutor for „Übersetzerbau” (Compiler Construction) at Vienna University of Technology
2001 – 2005:	Tutor for „Einführung in das Programmieren” (Introduction to Programming) at Vienna University of Technology
July 2001:	Internship at Siemens Software-Engineering Group Vienna
1998 – 2000:	Administrator of Public Computer Network for Students at BRG Rahlgasse

Languages

last edited by pk at 2011-03-23