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faculty Gert Lanckriet (PI), Electrical & Computer Engineering Shlomo Dubnov, Music Lawrence Saul, Computer Science & Computer Engineering affiliated faculty Bhaskar Rao, Electrical & Computer Engineering graduate students Luke Barrington, Electrical & Computer Enginnering Chih-Chieh Cheng, Computer Science & Engineering Youngmin Cho, Computer Science & Engineering Arshia Cont, Computer Music Diane Hu, Computer Science & Engineering Omer Lang, Electrical & Computer Engineering Brian McFee, Computer Science & Engineering Shibin Parameswan, Computer Science & Engineering David Torres, Computer Science & Computer Engineering Douglas Turnbull, Computer Science & Computer Engineering Mehrdad Yazdani, Electrical & Computer Engineering

research projects Games for Musical Data Collection Feature Kernel Combination Semantic Music Annotation and Retrieval CAL500 Data Set - 500 songs, 174 tags CATbox: Computer Audtion Toolbox for Matlab Music Segmentation and Boundary Detection Finding Musically Meaningful Words using Sparse CCA Musical Monitoring for Ambient Technology Temporal Models of Music news Oct 2008: Dr. Arshia Cont completes his joint thesis from UCSD, CAL and IRCAM. Arshia's thesis Sep 2008: CAL system places first in MIREX auto-tagging contest abstract poster July 2008: Dr. Doug Turnbull becomes CAL's first Ph.D graduate. Doug's thesis

publications 2009 L. Barrington, A.B. Chan, G. Lanckriet - Dynamic Texture Models of Music. ICASSP 2009 2008 L. Barrington, M. Yazdani, D. Turnbull, G. Lanckriet - Combination of Feature Kernels for Semantic Music Retrieval. ISMIR 2008 D. Turnbull, L. Barrington, G. Lanckriet - Five Approaches to Coleecting Tags for Music. ISMIR 2008 C. C. Cheng, D. J. Hu, and L. K. Saul - Nonnegative matrix factorization for real time musical analysis and sight-reading evaluation. Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP-08), pages 2017-2020. Las Vegas, NV. 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. 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 - Realtime Multiple-pitch and Multiple-instrument Recognition For Music Signals using Sparse Non-negative Constraints. DAFx, Bordeaux, France, September 2007. Cont, Dubnov & Assayag - GUIDAGE: A Fast Audio Query Guided Assemblage. ICMC, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 2007. Dubnov, Cont & Assayag - Audio Oracle: A New Algorithm for Fast Learning of Audio Structures. ICMC, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 2007. Turnbull, Barrington, Torres & Lanckriet - Towards Musical Query-by-Semantic Description using the CAL500 Data Set. To appear in SIGIR, Amsterdam, July 2007 bib Cont, Dubnov & Assayag - 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 - Audio Information Retrieval Using Semantic Similarity. International Conference on Acoustic, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Hawaii, April 2007 bib Sriperumbudur, Torres & Lanckriet - Sparse Eigen Methods by D.C. Programming. To appear in International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2007 bib Turnbull, Barrington, Torres & Lanckriet - Exploring the Semantic Annotation and Retrieval of Sound. CAL Technical Report CAL-2007-01, San Diego, February 2007 2006 Turnbull, Barrington, Torres & Lanckriet - Modeling the Semantics of Sound NIPS Workshop on Advances in Models for Acoustic Processing, Vancouver, December 2006 Turnbull, Barrington & Lanckriet - Modeling Music and Words using a Multi-Class naive Bayes Approach. International Symposium on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), Victoria, October 2006 Cont - Realtime Multiple Pitch Observation using Sparse Non-negative Constraints. International Symposium on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), Victoria, October 2006. Cont, Dubnov & Assayag - A framework for Anticipatory Machine Improvisation and Style Imitation. Anticipatory Behavior in Adaptive Learning Systems (ABiALS), Rome, September 2006. Cont - 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 - Ambient Display Using Musical Effects. Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI), Sydney, January 2006