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~ TarsosDSP Paper and Presentation at AES 53rd International conference on Semantic Audio

TarsosDSP will be presented at the AES 53rd International conference on Semantic Audio in London . During the conference both a presentation and demonstration of the paper TarsosDSP, a Real-Time Audio Processing Framework in Java, by Joren Six, Olmo Cornelis and Marc Leman, in Proceedings of the 53rd AES Conference (AES 53rd), 2014. From their website:

Semantic Audio is concerned with content-based management of digital audio recordings. The rapid evolution of digital audio technologies, e.g. audio data compression and streaming, the availability of large audio libraries online and offline, and recent developments in content-based audio retrieval have significantly changed the way digital audio is created, processed, and consumed. New audio content can be produced at lower cost, while also large audio archives at libraries or record labels are opening to the public. Thus the sheer amount of available audio data grows more and more each day. Semantic analysis of audio resulting in high-level metadata descriptors such as musical chords and tempo, or the identification of speakers facilitate content-based management of audio recordings. Aside from audio retrieval and recommendation technologies, the semantics of audio signals are also becoming increasingly important, for instance, in object-based audio coding, as well as intelligent audio editing, and processing. Recent product releases already demonstrate this to a great extent, however, more innovative functionalities relying on semantic audio analysis and management are imminent. These functionalities may utilise, for instance, (informed) audio source separation, speaker segmentation and identification, structural music segmentation, or social and Semantic Web technologies, including ontologies and linked open data.

This conference will give a broad overview of the state of the art and address many of the new scientific disciplines involved in this still-emerging field. Our purpose is to continue fostering this line of interdisciplinary research. This is reflected by the wide variety of invited speakers presenting at the conference.

The paper presents TarsosDSP, a framework for real-time audio analysis and processing. Most libraries and frameworks offer either audio analysis and feature extraction or audio synthesis and processing. TarsosDSP is one of a only a few frameworks that offers both analysis, processing and feature extraction in real-time, a unique feature in the Java ecosystem. The framework contains practical audio processing algorithms, it can be extended easily, and has no external dependencies. Each algorithm is implemented as simple as possible thanks to a straightforward processing pipeline. TarsosDSP’s features include a resampling algorithm, onset detectors, a number of pitch estimation algorithms, a time stretch algorithm, a pitch shifting algorithm, and an algorithm to calculate the Constant-Q. The framework also allows simple audio synthesis, some audio effects, and several filters. The Open Source framework is a valuable contribution to the MIR-Community and ideal fit for interactive MIR-applications on Android. The full paper can be downloaded TarsosDSP, a Real-Time Audio Processing Framework in Java

A BibTeX entry for the paper can be found below.

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@inproceedings{six2014tarsosdsp,
  author      = {Joren Six and Olmo Cornelis and Marc Leman},
  title       = {{TarsosDSP, a Real-Time Audio Processing Framework in Java}},
  booktitle   = {{Proceedings of the 53rd AES Conference (AES 53rd)}}, 
  year        =  2014
}

~ Doctoral defense Olmo Cornelis - Exploring the Symbiosis of Western and non-Western Music

Woensdag 18 december 2013 organiseerde Olmo Cornelis een concert in het kader van zijn doctoraat. De dag erna volgde zijn verdediging. Nogmaals proficiat Olmo met het mooie eeh mbirapunt. Hieronder staat kort wat uitleg over het project en het concert.

In zijn onderzoeksproject ‘Exploring the symbiosis of Western and non-Western Music’ stelde Olmo Cornelis de beschrijving van Centraal-Afrikaanse muziek centraal. Deze werd verkend via computationele technieken die de klank als signaal
benaderden. De verkregen informatie zorgde voor beïnvloeding van het artistieke oeuvre waarin steeds een mengeling van impliciete en expliciete etnische invloeden spelen.

In het kader van de afronding van dit doctoraal onderzoek spelen het HERMESensemble, het Nadar Ensemble, Maja Jantar en Françoise Vanhecke op 18 december werk van Olmo Cornelis dat tijdens dit project geschreven werd. Het onderzoeksproject Exploring the symbiosis of Western and non-Western Music werd in 2008 geïnitieerd aan het Conservatorium / School of Arts van de HoGent en werd gefinancierd door het onderzoeksfonds Hogeschool Gent.

Beeld: Noel Cornelis, Reality of Possibilities, 2012


~ IPEM D-Jogger featured on RTBF

Yesterday, December 4th 2013, the RTBF was at IPEM to do a small feature on research currently going on at the institue. The RTBF is the public broadcasting organization of the French Community of Belgium, the southern, French-speaking part of Belgium. The clip shows the D-Jogger in action, with me using it. The fragment is available on the RTBF website and is embedded below.