States of Diffusion is a participative audio installation artwork that explores patterns of sound transformation that move through space as they evolve spectrally. Six one-minute segments exploring themes of intonation and timing of events across ...

Current DJ interfaces lack direct support for typical digital communication common in social media. We present a novel DJ interface for live internet broadcast performances with remote audience feedback integration. Our multi-touch interface is designed ...

Automatic urban sound classification is a growing area of research with applications in multimedia retrieval and urban informatics. In this paper we identify two main barriers to research in this area - the lack of a common taxonomy and the scarceness ...

Users of audio-visual streaming services expect an ever increasing quality of experience. Channel bandwidth remains a bottleneck commonly addressed with lossy compression schemes for both the video and audio streams. Anecdotal evidence suggests a ...

This paper presents the AWtoolbox, an open-source software designed for extracting the audio word (AW) representation of audio signals. The toolbox comes with a graphical user interface that helps a user design custom AW extraction pipelines and various ...

Nowadays, an increasing number of singing enthusiasts upload their cover songs and share their performances in online social singing communities. They can also listen and rate other users' song renderings. An important feature of the social singing ...

Music emotion recognition, which aims to automatically recognize the affective content of a piece of music, has become one of the key components of music searching, exploring, and social networking applications. Although researchers have given more and ...

Parallel recordings made at the same event with different devices, e.g. by visitors of a concert, contain semantically the same content but do not run at the same speed when played back in parallel on a computer, which makes their synchronization ...

While programming an audio synthesizer can be difficult, if a user has a general idea of the sound they are trying to program, they may be able to imitate it with their voice. In this technical demonstration, we demonstrate SynthAssist, a system that ...

In the field of Music-Information Retrieval (Music-IR), algorithms are used to analyze musical signals and estimate high-level features such as tempi and beat locations. These features can then be used in tasks to enhance the experience of listening to ...