Awards & competitive grants
- "Best in class award" in the 2012 Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange contest (MIREX12 Structure Segmentation task).
- Knowledge Transfer Award in the Information and Communication Technologies area (PhD thesis modality). Board of Trustees of Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2011.
- European Doctorate Mention. Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2011.
- JAE-DOC postdoctoral grant. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC, Spanish National Research Council), 2011-2014.
- "Best in class award" in the 2010 Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange contest (MIREX10 Audio Classical Composer Identification task).
- One to six month grant for PhD students and junior researchers (A/09/96235). Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD, German Academic Exchange Service), 2010.
- Predoctoral scholarship for short research stays abroad (BE-DGR-2009). Catalan Government, Agency for Administration of University and Research Grants (AGAUR), 2010. Declined.
- "Best in class awards" in the 2009 Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange contest (MIREX09 Audio Cover Song Identification task and MIREX09 Audio Classical Composer Identification task).
- "Best in class award" in the 2008 Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange contest (MIREX08 Audio Cover Song Identification task).
- "Best in class award" in the 2007 Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange contest (MIREX07 Audio Cover Song Identification task).
- R+D+I scholarship. Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2006-2010.
Selected media appearances (in no particular order)
- The computer as music critic: NYTimes, Nodes.
- Measuring the evolution of contemporary western popular music: Nature, TVE (Informativos, min 42:30) [Local link], Antena3 (Telediario, part 3, min 3:40), La Vanguardia, El País, Scientific American, The Economist (Babbage), Onda Cero (Herrera en la Onda), Reuters, CNet, UPF e-Notícies, stern.de, Cadena SER (La ventana), RNE (En Días Como Hoy), The Guardian, Daily Mail, The Telegraph, The Australian, Welt, Hindustan Times, Corriere della Sera, FranceTV Info, ...
- Identification of versions of the same musical composition by processing audio descriptions: UPF e-Notícies.
- MTG Technology: TVE (Tres 14, min 19).
- Unsupervised detection of cover song sets: accuracy improvement and original identification: UPF e-Notícies.
- Cross recurrence quantification for cover song identification: COMRadio (Extraradi), ABC, Science Daily, Innovations-report, PhysOrg, SINC, Asian News International, ...
Links & downloads
Colleagues and collaborators
Vincent Akkermans, Ralph G. Andrzejak, Josep Ll. Arcos, Miguel Ausejo, Jan Van Balen, Dmitry Bogdanov, Marián Boguñá, Pedro Cano, Òscar Celma, Álvaro Corral, Frederic Font, Emilia Gómez, Peter Grosche, Enric Guaus, Martín Haro, Perfecto Herrera, Holger Kantz, Gopala K. Koduri, Cyril Laurier, Mathieu Lagrange, Meinard Müller, Justin Salamon, Xavier Serra, Mohamed Sordo, Pablo Uroz, Massimiliano Zanin.
Journals and international conferences
ISMIR (main page), MIREX (main page), ICASSP 2008, IEEE Trans. on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, IEEE CS Conf on The Use of Symbols to Represent Music and Multimedia Objects, Journal of New Music Research, SMC 2009, New Journal of Physics, Multimedia Tools and Applications, Net‐Works 2010, ACM MM 2010, MML 2010, IEEE Trans. on Multimedia, ICASSP 2011, FRSM 2012, Pattern Recognition Letters, PLoS ONE, NoLineal 2012, AAAI 2012, Scientific Reports, ICCBR 2012, COGNITIVE 2013, ...
Other links
Enginyeria La Salle, Universitat Ramón Llull (URL), Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya (ESMUC), Barcelona Media and Audio Technologies (BMAT), ISI Web of Knowledge, Consejo Superor de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Institut d'Investigació en Inteligència Artificial (IIIA), Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD), Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems (MPIPKS), Centre de Tecnologies i Aplicacions del Llenguatge i de la Parla (TALP), Centre de Recerca Matemàtica (CRM), Max Planck Institute for Computer Science (MPII), Nonlinear Time Series Analysis Group (NTSA), ...
Download links
Metadata CSV file for the versions collection we used (2010-2012; for the collection we used until 2009 click here). Other downloads can be found at my downloads folder at IIIA.
Personal & fun
Dilbert - Do you need a designer? - RockStock, the cover band! - Some Rockstock videos
Vincent Akkermans, Ralph G. Andrzejak, Josep Ll. Arcos, Miguel Ausejo, Jan Van Balen, Dmitry Bogdanov, Marián Boguñá, Pedro Cano, Òscar Celma, Álvaro Corral, Frederic Font, Emilia Gómez, Peter Grosche, Enric Guaus, Martín Haro, Perfecto Herrera, Holger Kantz, Gopala K. Koduri, Cyril Laurier, Mathieu Lagrange, Meinard Müller, Justin Salamon, Xavier Serra, Mohamed Sordo, Pablo Uroz, Massimiliano Zanin.
Journals and international conferences
ISMIR (main page), MIREX (main page), ICASSP 2008, IEEE Trans. on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, IEEE CS Conf on The Use of Symbols to Represent Music and Multimedia Objects, Journal of New Music Research, SMC 2009, New Journal of Physics, Multimedia Tools and Applications, Net‐Works 2010, ACM MM 2010, MML 2010, IEEE Trans. on Multimedia, ICASSP 2011, FRSM 2012, Pattern Recognition Letters, PLoS ONE, NoLineal 2012, AAAI 2012, Scientific Reports, ICCBR 2012, COGNITIVE 2013, ...
Other links
Enginyeria La Salle, Universitat Ramón Llull (URL), Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya (ESMUC), Barcelona Media and Audio Technologies (BMAT), ISI Web of Knowledge, Consejo Superor de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Institut d'Investigació en Inteligència Artificial (IIIA), Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD), Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems (MPIPKS), Centre de Tecnologies i Aplicacions del Llenguatge i de la Parla (TALP), Centre de Recerca Matemàtica (CRM), Max Planck Institute for Computer Science (MPII), Nonlinear Time Series Analysis Group (NTSA), ...
Download links
Metadata CSV file for the versions collection we used (2010-2012; for the collection we used until 2009 click here). Other downloads can be found at my downloads folder at IIIA.
Personal & fun
Dilbert - Do you need a designer? - RockStock, the cover band! - Some Rockstock videos
