Welcome to UCSD's Computer Audition Laboratory. Listen up!
faculty affiliated faculty graduate students
  • Luke Barrington, Electrical & Computer Enginnering
  • Arshia Cont, Computer Music
  • Omer Lang, Electrical & Computer Engineering
  • Brian McFee, Computer Science & Engineering
  • David Torres, Computer Science & Computer Engineering
  • Douglas Turnbull, Computer Science & Computer Engineering
  • Mehrdad Yazdani, Electrical & Computer Engineering
research projects
publications
2008
D. Turnbull, L. Barrington, D. Torres, G. Lanckriet Semantic Annotation and Retrieval of Music and Sound Effects - IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, February 2008 bib
S. Dubnov - Unified View of Prediction and Repetition Structure in Audio Signals IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, Februrary 2008
S. Dubnov and G. Assayag - Memex and Composer Duets: computer aided composition using style modeling and mixing. to appear in Open Music Composers book 2, 2008

2007
Turnbull, Liu, Barrington & Lanckriet - A Game-Based Approach for Collecting Semantic Annotations of Music ISMIR, Vienna, Austria, September 2007.
Torres, Turnbull, Barrington & Lanckriet - Identifying Words that are Musically Meaningful ISMIR, Vienna, Austria, September 2007. bib
Turnbull, Lanckriet, Pampalk, & Goto - A Supervised Approach for Detecting Boundaries in Music Using Difference Features and Boosting ISMIR, Vienna, Austria, September 2007.
Cont, Dubnov & Wessel (2007) - Realtime Multiple-pitch and Multiple-instrument Recognition For Music Signals using Sparse Non-negative Constraints. DAFx, Bordeaux, France, September 2007.
Cont, Dubnov & Assayag (2007) - GUIDAGE: A Fast Audio Query Guided Assemblage. ICMC, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 2007.
Dubnov, Cont & Assayag (2007) - Audio Oracle: A New Algorithm for Fast Learning of Audio Structures. ICMC, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 2007.
Turnbull, Barrington, Torres & Lanckriet (2007) - Towards Musical Query-by-Semantic Description using the CAL500 Data Set. To appear in SIGIR, Amsterdam, July 2007 bib
Cont, Dubnov & Assayag (2007) - Anticipatory Model of Musical Style Imitation using Collaborative and Competitive Reinforcement Learning. in Anticipatory Behavior in Adaptive Learning Systems: From Brains to Individual and Social Behavior Butz, M.V.; Sigaud, O.; Pezzulo, G.; Baldassarre, G. (Eds.), Pages 285-306, LNCS 4520, Springer Verlag.
Barrington, Chan, Turnbull & Lanckriet (2007) - Audio Information Retrieval Using Semantic Similarity. International Conference on Acoustic, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Hawaii, April 2007 bib
Sriperumbudur, Torres & Lanckriet(2007) - Sparse Eigen Methods by D.C. Programming. To appear in International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2007 bib
Turnbull, Barrington, Torres & Lanckriet (2007) - Exploring the Semantic Annotation and Retrieval of Sound. CAL Technical Report CAL-2007-01, San Diego, February 2007

2006
Turnbull, Barrington, Torres & Lanckriet (2006) - Modeling the Semantics of Sound NIPS Workshop on Advances in Models for Acoustic Processing, Vancouver, December 2006
Turnbull, Barrington & Lanckriet (2006) - Modeling Music and Words using a Multi-Class naive Bayes Approach. International Symposium on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), Victoria, October 2006
Cont (2006b) - Realtime Multiple Pitch Observation using Sparse Non-negative Constraints. International Symposium on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), Victoria, October 2006.
Cont, Dubnov & Assayag (2006) - A framework for Anticipatory Machine Improvisation and Style Imitation. Anticipatory Behavior in Adaptive Learning Systems (ABiALS), Rome, September 2006.
Cont (2006a) - Realtime Audio to Score Alignment for Polyphonic Music Instruments Using Sparse Non-negative constraints and Hierarchical HMMs. ICASSP'06, Toulouse, May 2006.
Barrington, Lyons, Diegmann & Abe (2006) - Ambient Display Using Musical Effects. Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI), Sydney, January 2006