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Dr. Markus Schedl
 

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

Tel: +43 732 2468 1512
Fax: +43 732 2468 1520
E-Mail: markus dot schedl at jku dot at


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CURRENT POSITION

Assistant Professor at the Department of Computational Perception of the Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria.

RESEARCH

Research Interests

Information Retrieval / Data Mining / Web Mining
Music Information Research / Multimedia Retrieval
Information Visualization / Intelligent User Interfaces
Machine Learning / Data Projection and Dimensionality Reduction
Recommendation / Personalization
International Business / Financial Markets

Upcoming Events 

Selected Publications (Full List )

Journals

Peer-Reviewed Conference Proceedings

Books and Book Chapters

Others

Theses

SCIENTIFIC SERVICES

Reviewing

Conferences / Workshops

Journals

Organization of Conferences and Workshops, Program Committee Membership, etc.

Organizer, Program Chair
 International Workshop on Learning from User-generated Content (LUC) @ 29th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2012), Edinburgh, Scotland, June-July 2012
PC Member
 13th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2012), Porto, Portugal, October 2012
PC Member 2nd Workshop on Context-awareness in Retrieval and Recommendation (CaRR 2012) @ 16th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2012), Lisbon, Portugal, February 2012
Organizer, Program Chair

4th International Workshop on Advances in Music Information Research (AdMIRe 2012) @ 21st International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2012), Lyon, France, April 2012
PC Member
 European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD 2011) Discovery Challenge, Athens, Greece, September 2011
Organizer
 MusiCLEF 2011, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, September 2011
PC Member
 IEEE International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM 2011), Melbourne, Australia, September 2011
PC Member
 Workshop on Music Recommendation and Discovery (WOMRAD 2011) @ ACM Recommender Systems (RecSys 2011), Chicago, USA, October 2011
PC Member
 ACM RecSys 2011: Challenge on Context-Aware Movie Recommendation (CAMRa 2011), Chicago, USA, October 2011
Organizer
 3rd International Workshop on Search and Mining User-generated Contents (SMUC 2011) @ 20th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2011), Glasgow, UK, October 2011
PC Member
 18th International Conference on MultiMedia Modeling (MMM 2012), Klagenfurt, Austria, January 2012
PC Member
 1st International ACM Workshop on Music Information Retrieval with User-Centered and Multimodal Strategies (MIRUM 2011) @ ACM Multimedia 2011, Scottsdale, USA
PC Member, Best Student Paper Panelist 12th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2011), Miami, USA, October 2011
PC Member International Workshop on Social Web Mining @ International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2011), Barcelona, Spain, July 2011
Judging Panel Member International Computer Music Conference (ICMC 2011), Huddersfield, UK, July/August 2011
PC Member 9th International Workshop on Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval (AMR 2011), Barcelona, Spain, July 2011
Organizer, Program Chair, Session Chair

3rd International Workshop on Advances in Music Information Research (AdMIRe 2011) @ IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2011), Barcelona, Spain, July 2011
PC Member Workshop on Music Recommendation and Discovery (WOMRAD 2010) @ ACM Recommender Systems (RecSys 2010), Barcelona, Spain, September 2010
PC Member 11th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2010), Utrecht, the Netherlands, August 2010
Organizer, Program Chair, Session Chair 8th International Workshop on Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval (AMR 2010), Linz, Austria, August 2010
Organizer, Program Chair, Session Chair

2nd International Workshop on Advances in Music Information Research (AdMIRe 2010) @ IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2010), Singapore, July 2010
PC Member

International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI 2010), Grenoble, France, June 2010
PC Member

IEEE International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM 2010), Thunder Bay, Canada, July 2010
Organizer, Program Chair, Session Chair

International Workshop on Advances in Music Information Research (AdMIRe 2009) @ IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM 2009), San Diego, USA, December 2009

Editorial Services

Co-editor of Dagstuhl Follow-Ups, Vol. 3: Multimodal Music Processing, Dagstuhl Publishing, Saarbrücken/Wadern, Germany, 2012
Co-editor of Springer LNCS 6817: Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval: Context, Exploration, and Fusion, Heidelberg, Germany, 2011

Invited Talks

Research Seminar "Geo-Aware Music Information Extraction from Social Media" at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain, February 2012
Research Colloquium "Social Media Mining for Music Information Extraction" at Universidade do Porto, Portugal, February 2012
Research Seminar "Inferring Music Similarity from Content and Context" at Free University of Bolzano, Italy, November 2011
Research Talk "Contextual Music and User Data for Personalized Music Retrieval" at Utrecht University, the Netherlands, September 2011
Research Talk "Web Content Mining for Music Retrieval" at Vienna University of Technology, Austria, April 2011
Research Seminar "The (Social) Web and Music, Stars and the Like" at Queen Mary, University of London, UK, March 2011
Seminar on Multimodal Music Processing, Dagstuhl, Germany, January 2011
Workshop on Learning the Semantics of Audio Signals (LSAS 2009), Graz, Austria, December 2009

PROJECTS

Current Projects

Past Projects

TEACHING

Lectures at JKU

Guest Lectures

Supervised Bachelor and Master Theses

Jury Memberships of Defenses

Tutorials

CURRICULUM VITAE

Education

03/2011 - University Bachelor Studies in Scandinavian Studies at University of Vienna, Dr.-Karl-Lueger-Ring 1, A-1010 Vienna
23/11/2010 University Graduation in International Business Administration from Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration
08/2008 - 01/2009 University Exchange Semester in International Business Administration at Handelshögskolan (Göteborgs Universitet), Vasagatan 1, Göteborg, Sweden
24/07/2008   Graduation (with distinction) in Technical Sciences from Johannes Kepler University Linz, PhD Thesis: Automatically Extracting, Analyzing, and Visualizing Information on Music Artists from the World Wide Web
10/2004 - 07/2008 University PhD Study in Computer Science at Johannes Kepler University Linz, Altenberger Straße 69, A-4040 Linz
03/2003 - 11/2010 University Diploma Study in International Business Administration at Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Augasse 2-6, A-1090 Vienna
16/03/2004   Graduation in Computer Science from Vienna University of Technology, Master's Thesis: An Explorative, Hierarchical User Interface to Structured Music Repositories
10/1998 - 03/2004 University Diploma Study in Computer Science at Vienna University of Technology, Karlsplatz 13, A-1040 Vienna
17/06/1998   High School Graduation (with distinction), Fachbereichsarbeit aus Informatik
09/1990 - 06/1998 High School Realgymnasium, Laaer Berg-Straße 25-29, A-1100 Vienna
09/1986 - 06/1990 Primary School Volksschule, Bernhardtstalgasse 19, A-1100 Vienna

Employment

02/2009 -

Assistant Professor at the Department of Computational Perception of the Johannes Kepler University Linz, Altenberger Straße 69, A-4040 Linz
07/2005 - 01/2009

Research Assistant at the Department of Computational Perception of the Johannes Kepler University Linz, Altenberger Straße 69, A-4040 Linz
09/2004 - 06/2005

Scientific Assistant at the Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Freyung 6/6, A-1010 Vienna
03/2004 - 12/2004 Contract for work and services: Analysis of systems for digital music distribution, Development of a prototype for intelligent music search at Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Freyung 6/6, A-1010 Vienna
03/2004 - 07/2004 Tutor for "Theoretical Computer Science" ("Theoretische Informatik") at Institute of Computer Languages, Theory and Logic Group, Vienna University of Technology, Karlsplatz 13, A-1040 Vienna
10/2003 - 01/2004 Teaching Assistant (Studienassistent) for "Knowledge Based Systems" ("Wissensbasierte Systeme") at Institute of Information Systems, Knowledge Based Systems Group, Vienna University of Technology, Karlsplatz 13, A-1040 Vienna
07/2003 - 08/2003 Software Engineer (MS Excel VBA) and Team Leader at Siemens AG Österreich, Gudrunstraße 11, A-1101 Vienna
03/2003 - 06/2003 Teaching Assistant (Studienassistent) for "Knowledge Based Systems" ("Wissensbasierte Systeme") at Institute of Information Systems, Knowledge Based Systems Group, Vienna University of Technology, Karlsplatz 13, A-1040 Vienna
10/2002 - 01/2003 Teaching Assistant (Studienassistent) for "Database Systems" ("Datenbanksysteme") at Institute of Information Systems, Database and Artificial Intelligence Group, Vienna University of Technology, Karlsplatz 13, A-1040 Vienna
07/2002 - 08/2002 Software Engineer (MS Access and MS Excel Applications) at Siemens AG Österreich, Gudrunstraße 11, A-1101 Vienna
03/2002 - 06/2002 Teaching Assistant (Studienassistent) for "Data Modelling" ("Datenmodellierung") at Institute of Information Systems, Database and Artificial Intelligence Group, Vienna University of Technology, Karlsplatz 13, A-1040 Vienna
07/2001 - 08/2001 Software Engineer (MS Visual Basic and Visual Basic for Applications) at Siemens AG Österreich, Gudrunstraße 11, A-1101 Vienna
07/2000 Web Designer (Interactive Panorama Views) and Hardware Assembly at Heimhilcher & Weber GmbH, Steingasse 33, A-1030 Vienna
07/1999 Heimhilcher & Weber GmbH, Steingasse 33, A-1030 Vienna
08/1996, 08/1997, 07/1998 Update EDV Dienstleistungs- und Handelsges.m.b.H., Landstraßer Hauptstraße 146, A-1030 Vienna
02/1999 - 01/2000 Civilian Service at Kinderfreunde Wien

Languages

German native
English excellent
French proficient
Italian conversant
Swedish conversant

Memberships

ISMIR (International Society for Music Information Retrieval)
IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)
TU Wien alumni club

Other

Mentor in the Mentoring Program of the 34th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2012)
Co-authored submission to MIREX 2011 ranked 1st (out of 18 submissions) in task Audio Music Similarity and Retrieval and 2nd (out of 15 submissions) in task Audio Tag Classification
Best Reviewer Award for IEEE International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM 2011)
Co-author of the computational music similarity measure that ranked first at MIREX 2010 Audio Music Similarity and Retrieval eXchange
Graphical summary of result: SSPK2 = Seyerlehner, Schedl, Pohle, Knees
Description of the Approach: Using Block-Level Features for Genre Classification, Tag Classification, and Music Similarity Estimation
Runner-up for Best Paper Award at ACM Multimedia 2006 for the paper An Innovative Three-Dimensional User Interface for Exploring Music Collections Enriched with Meta-Information from the Web
Mentor for International Students at Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration
Mentor for Exchange Students at Johannes Kepler University (REFI)
last edited by ms on 2012-05-08