• Performance assessment technologies for the support of musical instrument learning

  Eremenko, Vsevolod; Morsi, Alia; Narang, Jyoti; Serra, Xavier (2020)

  Recent technological developments are having a significant impact on musical instruments and singing voice learning. A proof is the number of successful software applications that are being used by aspiring musicians in ...
• Towards blockchain for decentralized self-organizing wireless networks

  Platt, Steven; Oliver Riera, Miquel (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2019)

  Distributed consensus mechanisms have been widely researched and made popular with a number of blockchain-based token applications, such as Bitcoin, and Ethereum. Although these ...
• A distributed ledger-enabled interworking model for the wireless air interface

  Platt, Steven; Oliver Riera, Miquel (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2019)

  While direct allocation of spectrum and evolved medium access protocols provide a base for ubiquitous wireless connectivity, the existing TCP/IP and OSI models were designed for wired networks and do not address open ...
• Personalized computational framework to study arrhythmia mechanisms on top of ECGI-detected sub-strate

  Cluitmans, Matthijs J.M.; Lluch Alvarez, Èric; Morales, Hernán G.; Heijman, Jordi; Vaulders, Paul (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2018)

  Electrocardiographic Imaging (ECGI) can unmask electrical abnormalities that were difficult to detect using the standard 12-lead ECG. However, it is still challenging to interpret the potential arrhythmogenic consequence ...
• PAD and SAD: Two awareness-weighted rhythmic similarity distances

  Gómez Marín, Daniel; Jordà Puig, Sergi; Herrera Boyer, Perfecto, 1964- (International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), 2015)

  Measuring rhythm similarity is relevant for the analysis and generation of music. Existing similarity metrics tend to consider our perception of rhythms as being in time without discriminating the importance of some ...
• Improving score-informed source separation for classical music through note refinement

  Miron, Marius; Carabias Orti, Julio J.; Janer Mestres, Jordi (International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), 2015)

  Signal decomposition methods such as Non-negative Matrix Factorization (NMF) demonstrated to be a suitable approach for music signal processing applications, including sound source separation. To better control this ...
• Analyzing the influence of pitch quantization and note segmentation on singing voice alignment in the context of audio-based Query-by-Humming

  Valero-Mas, Jose J.; Salamon, Justin; Gómez Gutiérrez, Emilia, 1975- (Maynooth University, 2015)

  Query-by-Humming (QBH) systems base their operation on aligning the melody sung/hummed by a user with a set of candidate melodies retrieved from polyphonic songs. While MIDI-based QBH builds on the premise of ...
• Target-based rhythmic pattern generation and variation with genetic algorithms

  Nuanáin, Cárthach Ó; Herrera Boyer, Perfecto, 1964-; Jordà Puig, Sergi (Maynooth University, 2015)

  Composing drum patterns and musically developing them through repetition and variation is a typical task in electronic music production. We propose a system that, given an input pattern, automatically creates related ...
• An Analysis/synthesis framework for automatic F0 annotation of multitrack datasets

  Salamon, Justin; Bittner, Rachel M.; Bonada, Jordi, 1973-; Bosch, Juan J.; Gómez Gutiérrez, Emilia, 1975-; Bello, Juan Pablo (International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), 2017)

  Generating continuous f0 annotations for tasks such as melody extraction and multiple f0 estimation typically involves running a monophonic pitch tracker on each track of a multitrack recording and manually correcting ...
• Cell-free massive MIMO for UAV communications

  D’Andrea, Carmen; García Rodríguez, Adrián; Geraci, Giovanni; Galati Giordano, Lorenzo; Buzzi, Stefano (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2019)

  We study support for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications through a cell-free massive MIMO ar- chitecture. Under the general assumption that the propagation channel between the mobile stations, either UAVs or ...
• Cellular UAV-to-UAV communications

  Azari, M. Mahdi; Geraci, Giovanni; García Rodríguez, Adrián; Pollin, Sofie (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2019)

  Reliable and direct communication between un-manned aerial vehicles (UAVs) could facilitate autonomous flight, collision avoidance, and cooperation in UAV swarms. In this paper, we consider UAV-to-UAV (U2U) communica-tions ...
• Photorealistic style transfer for cinema shoots

  Zabaleta, Itziar; Bertalmío, Marcelo (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2018)

  Color grading is the process of subtly mixing andadjusting the color and tonal balance of a movie to achievea specific visuallook. This manual editing task may requirea significant amount of ...
• BAT: An open-source, web-based audio events annotation tool

  Meléndez Catalán, Blai; Molina, Emilio; Gómez Gutiérrez, Emilia, 1975- (2017)

  In this paper we present BAT (BMAT Annotation Tool), an open-source, web-based tool for the manual annotation of events in audio recordings developed at BMAT (Barcelona Music and Audio Technologies1). The main feature ...
• On large-scale genre classification in symbolically encoded music by automatic identification of repeating patterns

  Ferraro, Andrés; Lemström, Kjell (ACM Association for Computer Machinery, 2018)

  The importance of repetitions in music is well-known. In this paper, we study music repetitions in the context of effective and efficient automatic genre classification in large-scale music-databases. We aim at enhancing ...
• A Vocoder based method for singing voice extraction

  Chandna, Pritish; Blaauw, Merlijn; Bonada, Jordi, 1973-; Gómez Gutiérrez, Emilia, 1975- (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2019)

  This paper presents a novel method for extracting the vocal track from a musical mixture. The musical mixture consists of a singing voice and a backing track which may comprise of various instruments. We use a convolutional ...
• The Potential of light fields in media productions

  Trottnow, Jonas; Spielmann, Simon; Lange, Tobias; Chelli, Kelvin; Solony, Marek; Smrž, Pavel; Zemčík, Pavel; Aenchbacher, Weston; Grogan, Mairéad; Alain, Martin; Smolic, Aljosa; Canham, Trevor; Vu-Thanh, Olivier; Vazquez-Corral, Javier; Bertalmío, Marcelo (ACM Association for Computer Machinery, 2019)

  One aspect of the EU funded project SAUCE is to explore the pos-sibilities and challenges of integrating light field capturing andprocessing into media productions. A special light field camera wasbuild by Saarland University ...
• Performance evaluation of objective quality metrics on HLG-based HDR image coding

  Sugito, Yasuko; Bertalmío, Marcelo (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2018)

  We evaluate the performance of objective quality metrics for high dynamic range (HDR) image coding that uses the transfer function (TF) of the Hybrid Log-Gamma (HLG) method. Previous evaluations of objective metrics ...
• On the duality between retinex and image dehazing

  Galdran, Adrian; Bria, Alessandro; Álvarez-Gila, Aitor; Vazquez-Corral, Javier; Bertalmío, Marcelo (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2018)

  Image dehazing deals with the removal of undesired lossof visibility in outdoor images due to the presence of fog.Retinex is a color vision model mimicking the ability ofthe Human Visual System to robustly discount varying ...
• INGENIOUS: the first responder of the future. A next generation integrated toolkit for collaborative response, increasing protection and augmenting operational capacity.

  Institute of Communications and Computer Systems; Universiteit Twente; Deutsches Zentrum Fuer Luft – Und Raumfahrt; Diginext; Fundacion Tekniker; Exus; SINTEF; Center for Research & Technology Hellas; Totalförvarets Forskningsinstitut; SATWAYS; Alpes Lasers; Technische Universitaet Wien; Cyprus Research & Innovation Center; Universitat Pompeu Fabra; SingularLogic; Korea Institute of Robot & Convergence; Gobierno Vasco, Departamento de Seguridad; Hopitaux de Paris (SafeCorfu, 2019)

  The INGENIOUS project (EU Horizon 2020) aims to develop, integrate, test, deploy, demonstrate and validate a Next Generation Integrated Toolkit (NGIT) for Collaborative Response, which ensures high level of Protection & ...
• Enhancing music learning with smart technologies

  Ramírez, Rafael,1966-; Canepa, Corrado; Ghisio, Simone; Kolykhalova, Ksenia; Mancini, Maurizio; Volta, Erica; Volpe, Gualtiero; Giraldo, Sergio; Mayor, Oscar; Perez, Alfonso; Waddell, George; Williamon, Aaron (ACM Association for Computer Machinery, 2018)

  Learning to play a musical instrument is a difficult task, requiring the development of sophisticated skills. Nowadays, such a learning process is mostly based on the master-apprentice model. Technologies are rarely ...

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