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2009
Making an orchestra speak. Nouno, Gilbert, Cont, Arshia, Carpentier, Gr{\’e}goire and Harvey, Jonathan. In Sound and Music Computing, Porto, 2009. (SMC2009 Best Paper Award). 
A coupled duration-focused architecture for realtime music to score alignment. Arshia Cont. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2009. (in press).
2008
Modeling Musical Anticipation: From the time of music to the music of time. Arshia Cont. PhD thesis, University of Paris 6 and University of California in San Diego, October 2008. 
On the Information Geometry of Audio Streams with Applications to Automatic Structure Discovery. Arshia Cont, Shlomo Dubnov and G{\’e}rard Assayag. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, December 2008. (submitted).
ANTESCOFO: Anticipatory Synchronization and Control of Interactive Parameters in Computer Music. Arshia Cont. In Proceedings of International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), August 2008.
2007
Audio Oracle: A New Algorithm for Fast Learning of Audio Structures. Shlomo Dubnov, Gerard Assayag and Arshia Cont. In Proceedings of International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), September 2007.
GUIDAGE: A Fast Audio Query Guided Assemblage. Arshia Cont, Shlomo Dubnov and Gerard Assayag. In Proceedings of International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), September 2007. (ICMC Best Presentation Award).
Realtime Multiple-pitch and Multiple-instrument Recognition For Music Signals using Sparse Non-negative Constraints. Arshia Cont, Shlomo Dubnov and David Wessel. In Proceedings of Digital Audio Effects Conference (DAFx), October 2007.
Evaluation of Real-Time Audio-to-Score Alignment. Arshia Cont, Diemo Schwarz, Norbert Schnell and Christopher Raphael. In International Symposium on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), October 2007.
Anticipatory Model of Musical Style Imitation using Collaborative and Competitive Reinforcement Learning. Arshia Cont, Shlomo Dubnov and Gerard Assayag. In Anticipatory Behavior in Adaptive Learning Systems, pages 285–306.Springer Verlag, , 2007.
2006
A framework for Anticipatory Machine Improvisation and Style Imitation. Arshia Cont, Shlomo Dubnov and Gerard Assayag. In Anticipatory Behavior in Adaptive Learning Systems (ABiALS), September 2006.
Score Following at Ircam. Arshia Cont and Diemo Schwarz. In Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange (MIREX) Score Following Contest, October 2006.
OMAX Brothers: A Dynamic Topology of Agents for Improvisation Learning. Gerard Assayag, George Bloch, Marc Chemillier, Arshia Cont and Shlomo Dubnov. In ACM Multimedia Workshop on Audio and Music Computing for Multimedia, October 2006.
Realtime Multiple Pitch Observation using Sparse Non-negative Constraints. Arshia Cont. In International Symposium on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), October 2006.
Realtime Audio to Score Alignment for Polyphonic Music Instruments Using Sparse Non-negative constraints and Hierarchical HMMs. Arshia Cont. In IEEE International Conference in Acoustics and Speech Signal Processing (ICASSP), May 2006.
2005
From Boulez to Ballads: Training IRCAM’s Score Follower. Diemo Schwarz, Arshia Cont and Norbert Schnell. In Proceedings of International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), September 2005.
Training Ircam’s Score Follower. Arshia Cont, Diemo Schwarz and Norbert Schnell. In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics and Speech Signal Processing (ICASSP), March 2005.
2004
TOASTER and KROONDE: High-resolution and High-speed real-time sensor interfaces. Thierry Coduys, Arshia Cont and Cyrille Henry. In New Interfaces for Musical Expressions 2004 (NIME04), June 2004.
Real-time gesture mapping in Pd environment using Neural Networks. Arshia Cont, Cyrille Henry and Thierry Coduys. In New Interfaces for Musical Expressions 2004 (NIME04), June 2004.
Improvement of Observation Modeling for Score Following. Cont, Arshia. Master’s thesis, University of Paris 6, IRCAM, 2004.
Training Ircam’s Score Follower. Arshia Cont, Diemo Schwarz and Norbert Schnell. In AAAI Fall Symposium on Style and Meaning in Language, Art and Music, 2004.
2003
Simulation of Bistable Acousto-Optic Devices Using Matlab. Arshia Cont and T.-C. Poon. In IEEE Southern Symposium on System Theory (SSST), 2003.
Audio Spectral Processing and Recognition: Implementation of a ‘Listening Machine. Arshia Cont. In International Conference in Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing(ICASSP), 2003. (student paper section).
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PhD Thesis
Modeling Musical Anticipation: From the time of music to the music of time. Arshia Cont. PhD thesis, University of Paris 6 and University of California in San Diego, October 2008.
Journal Papers
A coupled duration-focused architecture for realtime music to score alignment. Arshia Cont. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2009. (in press).
On the Information Geometry of Audio Streams with Applications to Automatic Structure Discovery. Arshia Cont, Shlomo Dubnov and G{\’e}rard Assayag. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, December 2008. (submitted).
Book Chapters
Anticipatory Model of Musical Style Imitation using Collaborative and Competitive Reinforcement Learning. Arshia Cont, Shlomo Dubnov and Gerard Assayag. In Anticipatory Behavior in Adaptive Learning Systems, pages 285–306.Springer Verlag, , 2007.
Conference Proceedings
Making an orchestra speak. Nouno, Gilbert, Cont, Arshia, Carpentier, Gr{\’e}goire and Harvey, Jonathan. In Sound and Music Computing, Porto, 2009. (SMC2009 Best Paper Award).
ANTESCOFO: Anticipatory Synchronization and Control of Interactive Parameters in Computer Music. Arshia Cont. In Proceedings of International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), August 2008.
Audio Oracle: A New Algorithm for Fast Learning of Audio Structures. Shlomo Dubnov, Gerard Assayag and Arshia Cont. In Proceedings of International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), September 2007.
GUIDAGE: A Fast Audio Query Guided Assemblage. Arshia Cont, Shlomo Dubnov and Gerard Assayag. In Proceedings of International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), September 2007. (ICMC Best Presentation Award).
Realtime Multiple-pitch and Multiple-instrument Recognition For Music Signals using Sparse Non-negative Constraints. Arshia Cont, Shlomo Dubnov and David Wessel. In Proceedings of Digital Audio Effects Conference (DAFx), October 2007.
Evaluation of Real-Time Audio-to-Score Alignment. Arshia Cont, Diemo Schwarz, Norbert Schnell and Christopher Raphael. In International Symposium on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), October 2007.
Score Following at Ircam. Arshia Cont and Diemo Schwarz. In Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange (MIREX) Score Following Contest, October 2006.
Realtime Multiple Pitch Observation using Sparse Non-negative Constraints. Arshia Cont. In International Symposium on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), October 2006.
Realtime Audio to Score Alignment for Polyphonic Music Instruments Using Sparse Non-negative constraints and Hierarchical HMMs. Arshia Cont. In IEEE International Conference in Acoustics and Speech Signal Processing (ICASSP), May 2006.
Training Ircam’s Score Follower. Arshia Cont, Diemo Schwarz and Norbert Schnell. In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics and Speech Signal Processing (ICASSP), March 2005.
From Boulez to Ballads: Training IRCAM’s Score Follower. Diemo Schwarz, Arshia Cont and Norbert Schnell. In Proceedings of International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), September 2005.
TOASTER and KROONDE: High-resolution and High-speed real-time sensor interfaces. Thierry Coduys, Arshia Cont and Cyrille Henry. In New Interfaces for Musical Expressions 2004 (NIME04), June 2004.
Real-time gesture mapping in Pd environment using Neural Networks. Arshia Cont, Cyrille Henry and Thierry Coduys. In New Interfaces for Musical Expressions 2004 (NIME04), June 2004.
Audio Spectral Processing and Recognition: Implementation of a ‘Listening Machine. Arshia Cont. In International Conference in Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing(ICASSP), 2003. (student paper section).
Simulation of Bistable Acousto-Optic Devices Using Matlab. Arshia Cont and T.-C. Poon. In IEEE Southern Symposium on System Theory (SSST), 2003.
Workshops
A framework for Anticipatory Machine Improvisation and Style Imitation. Arshia Cont, Shlomo Dubnov and Gerard Assayag. In Anticipatory Behavior in Adaptive Learning Systems (ABiALS), September 2006.
OMAX Brothers: A Dynamic Topology of Agents for Improvisation Learning. Gerard Assayag, George Bloch, Marc Chemillier, Arshia Cont and Shlomo Dubnov. In ACM Multimedia Workshop on Audio and Music Computing for Multimedia, October 2006.
Training Ircam’s Score Follower. Arshia Cont, Diemo Schwarz and Norbert Schnell. In AAAI Fall Symposium on Style and Meaning in Language, Art and Music, 2004.
Master’s Thesis
Improvement of Observation Modeling for Score Following. Cont, Arshia. Master’s thesis, University of Paris 6, IRCAM, 2004.
Unpublished Reports
Artificial Intelligence and Music: A critical survey and proposal. Arshia Cont, May 2005.
Analysis of the second movement of Ligeti’s second string quartet. Arshia Cont, June 2005. (Submitted to MUS210, Music Department, UCSD.).
A brief survey of Expectancy Research in Music Perception. Arshia Cont, December 2004.
Contemplations on the use of technologies towards musical composition. Arshia Cont, 2004. (Submitted to the ATIAM Masters Program’s ‘Musical Applications’ course report (Unpublished)).
Worthy Presentations
Artificial Learning methods in Computer Music. Gerard Assayag and Arshia Cont, June 2006. (RTP CNRS Musique, Cognition, Societe - Ircam).
Analysis of Stockhausen’s Telemusik. Arshia Cont, June 2005. (Final Presentation MUS210, Music Department, UCSD.).
Realtime Polyphonic Score Following using NMF and HHMMs. Arshia Cont, November 2005. (Internal presentation at Ircam-Centre Pompidou).