(c) FWF/Hans Schubert, 2010

CURRENT POSITIONS

• Professor and Head of the Department of Computational Perception at the Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria.
  
• Head of the Intelligent Music Processing and Machine Learning Group at the Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OFAI), Vienna.
  
  

TEACHING (in German)

• here is an up-to-date list of the classes taught at my department

RESEARCH

Research Interests

• Artificial Intelligence
• Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition
  
• Knowledge Discovery in Databases / Data Mining / Text Mining
  
• Intelligent Music and Audio Processing
• Computational Models of Expressive Music Performance
  
• Music Information Retrieval (MIR)
  
  

Publications

• Here is my LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
  
  (see also Research at the Department of Computational Perception @ JKU
  and The Machine Learning and Intelligent Music Processing Group @ OFAI)
  

Invited Speaker at

• 2001: 12th European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML'2001), Freiburg, Germany
• 2001: 8th Brazilian Symposium on Computer Music (SBCM'2001), Fortaleza, Brazil
• 2001: 9th Spanish Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CAEPIA'2001), Gijón, Spain
• 2002: ESCOM Conference on Musical Creativity 2002, Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Creativity, Liège, Belgium
• 2002: 13th International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory (ALT'02) and
2002: 5th International Conference on Discovery Science (DS'02), Lübeck, Germany
• 2002: 15th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI'02), Lyon, France
• 2003: 3rd decennial Stockholm Music Acoustics Conference (SMAC'03), Stockholm, Sweden
• 2003: AT21 Gala, Graz, Austria
  
• 2004: AT21 Gala, Schloss Schönbrunn, Vienna
• 2004: First Central European International Multimedia and Virtual Reality Conference, Veszprém, Hungary
• 2005: 22nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2005) and
  2005: 15th International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming (ILP 2005) , Bonn, Germany
  
• 2006: 18th European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research (EMCSR 2006), Vienna, Austria
  
• 2007: Science Impact - Rethinking the Impact of Basic Research on Science and the Economy
  (organized by FWF and European Science Foundation), Vienna, Austria:
  Closing event: "The Beauty of Basic Research: Computers Explore Musical Expressivity" ( video)
• 2008: 1st International Conference of Students of Systematic Musicology (SysMus08), Graz, Austria
• 2009: 18th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems (ISMIS 2009), Prague, Czech Republic
• 2009: 21st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-09), Pasadena, CA, USA (had to be cancelled)
• 2010: Vienna Talk 2010 on Music Acoustics, University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
• 2012: 13th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP 2012), Linz, Austria
• 2012: 12th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC) & 8th Triennial Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM), Thessaloniki, Greece

RECENT AND CURRENT PROJECTS

• 2004- (ongoing):
  Cooperation with Bang & Olufsen (B&O), Denmark:
  Development of the MOTS music analysis functionality for intelligent music players such as B&O's BeoSound 5
  
  
• 2011-2013 - EU 7th FP Project:
  Roadmap for Music Information ReSearch (MIReS)


• 2010-2013 - Austrian National Research Fund (FWF) -
  Research Line "Translational Research"):
  Computational Music Performance Research, Applied
  
  
• 2008-2011 - Austrian National Research Fund (FWF) -
  Research Line "Translational Research"):
  Music Retrieval Beyond Simple Audio Similarity
  
  
• 2007-2010 - Austrian National Research Fund (FWF):
  Computational Performance Style Analysis from Audio Recordings
  
  
• 2005-2008 - Austrian National Research Fund (FWF) -
  Research Line "Translational Research"):
  Operational Models of Music Similarity for Music Information Retrieval
  
  
• 2004 - 2007 - Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF) -
  Research Line "Science for Creative Industries":
  Interfaces to Music (I2M)
  
  
• 2006 - 2010 - Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), U.K. -
  Learning the Structure of Music (LeStruM)
  Collaboration with University of Southampton, University of Plymouth, Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology (Germany)
  
  
• 2004-2006 - EU 6th FP Project:
  Semantic Interaction with Music Audio Contents (SIMAC)


• 2004-2007 - EU 6th FP Project:
  Sound to Sense, Sense to Sound (S2S²)
  
  
• 1999-2005 - START Research Prize:
  Computer-Based Music Research: Artificial Intelligence Models of Musical Expression

• 2003-2005 - EU 5th FP, QoL Programme:
  Biological Text Mining (BioMinT)
  

• 2002-2005 - EU COST Action No. 282:
  Knowledge Exploration in Science and Technology
  

• 2000-2003 - EU 5th FP, IST Programme:
  Data Mining and Decision Support for Business Competitiveness: A European Virtual Enterprise (SOL-EU-NET)

• 2000-2003 - EU 5th FP, RTN Project:
  Music Orchestration Systems in Algorithmic Research and Technology (MOSART)

• 2000-2003 - Austrian National Research Fund (FWF):
  A New Modular Architecture for Data Mining

• 1999-2002 - EU ESPRIT Project:
  A Meta-Learning Assistant for Providing User Support in Machine Learning and Data Mining (METAL)

• 2001-2002 - EU 5th FP, IST Project:
  3D Ontology-based Web Search Application (3D Search)
  
  

SCIENTIFIC SERVICES

Organization of Conferences and Workshops

• Local chair (jointly with Igor Mozetic) of the
• 6th European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML-93), Vienna
 
• Programme Chair (jointly with Maarten van Someren) of the
• 9th European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML-97), Prague
 
• (Co-)Organizer and (co-)chair of the following workshops:
• ECAI-92 Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Music, 10th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-92), Vienna
• IJCAI-95 Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Music, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-95), Montreal, Canada
• ICML-96 Workshop on Learning in Context-Sensitive Domains, 13th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML-96), Bari, Italy (jointly with Miroslav Kubat)
• AAAI-2000 Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Music, 17th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'2000), Austin, Texas (jointly with William Birmingham and Roger B. Dannenberg)
• IJCAI'03 Workshop on Methods for Automatic Music Performance and their Applications in a Public Rendering Contest, 18th Joint International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'03), Acapulco, Mexico
 
• Austria's Delegate to the Management Committee of the
• COST Action No. 282 ("Knowledge Exploration in Science and Technology")
 
• Co-Organiser and Co-Chair of the
• 8th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR 2007), Vienna
 

Editorial Services

• Member of the Editorial/Advisory Board of
• AAAI Press
  
• Machine Learning
• Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR) (2003-2007)
• Intelligent Data Analysis (1996-2006)
• AI Communications (AICom) (2000-2004)
• Journal of New Music Research
 
• Guest Editor (jointly with Miroslav Kubat) of a
• Special Issue on "Context Sensitivity and Concept Drift", Machine Learning 32(2), August 1998
 
• Guest Editor of a
• Special Issue on "Machine Learning in Music", Machine Learning 65 (2/3), Dec. 2006 2006
 

MISCELLANEOUS

Awards, Prizes, Honours

• 1974: First Prize, National Piano Competition, Federal State of Vorarlberg
  
• 1984-86: Fulbright Scholarship (to Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, USA)
• 1997: Kardinal Innitzer Research Award ("Kardinal-Innitzer-Förderungspreis")
• 1998: START Research Prize by the Austrian Federal Government; comes with large six-year research grant (EUR 872.000,-) for the project Computer-Based Music Research: Artificial Intelligence Models of Musical Expression.
  Some articles about this in the public media:
  • WIRED MAGAZINE (Sept. 2001)
  • DER SPIEGEL (June 2002, in German)
  • New York Times (June 2005)
  • Sueddeutsche Zeitung (Oct. 2005, in German)
• 2002: Förderungspreis des Landes Vorarlberg für Wissenschaft
• 2004: Best Paper Award, 15th European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML'2004), Pisa, Italy, for the paper "Using String Kernels to Identify Performers from their Playing Style" by C. Saunders, D. Hardoon, J. Shawe-Taylor, & G. Widmer.
• 2006: Elected ECCAI Fellow by the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence
• Since 2008: Member of the "Junge Kurie" of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
• 2008: Our expressive music performance rendering system YQX wins the Rencon Award, the Rencon Technical Award, and the Rencon Murao Award at the 7th Contest for Performance Rendering Systems (RENCON '08), Sapporo, Japan, Aug. 2008. Listen to the results.
• 2009: Wittgenstein Prize (Austria's most prestigious research award, comes with a five-year grant of EUR 1,4 million)
• 2011: Our multimedia arts project sound/tracks has been selected as one of the "Jury Recommended Works" and will be exhibited at the 14th Japan Media Arts Festival, The National Art Center, Tokyo, Feb. 2011
• 2011: Our expressive music performance rendering system YQX 2.0 feat. the Basis Mixer wins the 2011 SMC Rencon Award and the Rencon Technical Award at the 10th Contest for Performance Rendering Systems (SMC-Rencon), Padova, Italy, July 2011.

Reports on our Research in the Media

• Here is our MEDIA ARCHIVE
  

... and my Erdös Number :-)