• Contributing to new musicological theories with computational methods: the case of centonization in Arab-Andalusian music

  Nuttall, Thomas; García Casado, Miguel; Núñez Tarifa, Víctor; Caro Repetto, Rafael; Serra, Xavier (International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), 2019)

  Arab-Andalusian music was formed in the medieval Islamic territories of the Iberian Peninsula, drawing on local traditions and assuming Arabic influences. The expert performer and researcher of the Moroccan tradition ...
• 20 Years of automatic chord recognition from audio

  Pauwels, Johan; O’Hanlon, Ken; Gómez Gutiérrez, Emilia, 1975-; Sandler, Mark (International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), 2019)

  In 1999, Fujishima published Realtime Chord Recognition of Musical Sound: a System using Common Lisp Music. This paper kickstarted an active research topic that has been popular in and around the ISMIR community. The field ...
• A Dataset of rhythmic pattern reproductions and baseline automatic assessment system

  Falcao, Felipe; Bozkurt, Baris; Serra, Xavier; Andrade, Nazareno; Baysal, Ozan (International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), 2019)

  This work presents a novel dataset comprised of audio and jury evaluations for rhythmic pattern reproduction performances by students applying for a conservatory. Data was collected in-loco during entrance exams where ...
• Da-TACOS: A dataset for cover song identification and understanding

  Yesiler, Furkan; Tralie, Chris; Correya, Albin Andrew; Silva, Diego F.; Tovstogan, Philip; Gómez Gutiérrez, Emilia, 1975-; Serra, Xavier (International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), 2019)

  This paper focuses on Cover Song Identification (CSI), an important research challenge in content-based Music Information Retrieval (MIR). Although the task itself is interesting and challenging for both academia and ...
• A Framework for multi-f0 modeling in SATB choir recordings

  Cuesta, Helena; Gómez Gutiérrez, Emilia, 1975-; Chandna, Pritish (Sound and Music Computing, 2019)

  Fundamental frequency (f0) modeling is an important but relatively unexplored aspect of choir singing. Performance evaluation as well as auditory analysis of singing, whether individually or in a choir, often depend on ...
• Multi web audio sequencer: collaborative music making

  Favory, Xavier; Serra, Xavier (2018)

  Recent advancements in web-based audio systems have enabled sufficiently accurate timing control and real-time sound processing capabilities. Numerous specialized music tools, as well as digital audio workstations, are ...
• Learning sound event classifiers from web audio with noisy labels

  Fonseca, Eduardo; Plakal, Manoj; Ellis, Daniel P. W.; Font, Frederic; Favory, Xavier; Serra, Xavier (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2018)

  As sound event classification moves towards larger datasets, issues of label noise become inevitable. Web sites can supply large volumes of user-contributed audio and metadata, but inferring labels from this metadata ...
• Randomly weighted CNNs for (music) audio classification

  Pons Puig, Jordi; Serra, Xavier (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2018)

  The computer vision literature shows that randomly weighted neural networks perform reasonably as feature extractors. Following this idea, we study how non-trained (randomly weighted) convolutional neural networks perform ...
• Adult content in social live streaming services: characterizing deviant users and relationships

  Lykousas, Nikolaos; Gómez, Vicenç; Patsakis, Constantinos (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2018)

  Social Live Stream Services (SLSS) exploit a new level of social interaction. One of the main challenges in these services is how to detect and prevent deviant behaviors that violate community guidelines. In this work, we ...
• Towards large scale multimedia indexing: a case study on person discovery in broadcast news

  Le, Nam; Bredin, Hervé; Sargent, Gabriel; India, Miquel; López Otero, Paula; Barras, Claude; Guinaudeau, Camille; Gravier, Guillaume; Barbosa da Fonseca, Gabriel; Lyon Freire, Izabela; Patrocínio, Zenilton; Guimarães, Silvio Jamil F.; Martí Juan, Gerard; Morros, Josep Ramon; Hernando, Javier; Docio Fernández, Laura; García Mateo, Carmen; Meignier, Sylvain; Odobez, Jean-Marc (ACM Association for Computer Machinery, 2017)

  The rapid growth of multimedia databases and the human interest in their peers make indices representing the location and identity of people in audio-visual documents essential for searching archives. Person discovery ...
• The Role of context in defining play

  Crowell, Ciera; Mora Guiard, Joan; Parés, Narcís, 1966- (ACM Association for Computer Machinery, 2018)

  When players enter into an interactive game setting, they undertake a process of discovery and subsequent distinguishing of the rules and goals which will prevail in the play context. However, this process of forming ...
• Variations between perceptions of interpersonal distance in virtual environments for autism

  Crowell, Ciera; Parés, Narcís, 1966- (ACM Association for Computer Machinery, 2018)

  Interpersonal distance is defined as the area which we choose to keep between ourselves and others, revealed through observation and cultural components. Although previous studies have suggested the possibility of alterations ...
• Prosodic phrase alignment for machine dubbing

  Öktem, Alp; Farrús, Mireia; Bonafonte, Antonio (International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), 2019)

  Dubbing is a type of audiovisual translation where dialogues are translated and enacted so that they give the impression that the media is in the target language. It requires a careful alignment of dubbed recordings ...
• Transferring knowledge from discourse to arguments: a case study with scientific abstracts

  Accuosto, Pablo; Saggion, Horacio (ACL (Association for Computational Linguistics), 2019)

  In this work we propose to leverage resources available with discourse-level annotations to facilitate the identification of argumentative components and relations in scientific texts, which has been recognized as a ...
• Concept-level design analytics for blended courses

  Albó, Laia; Barria-Pineda, Jordan; Brusilovsky, Peter; Hernández Leo, Davinia (Springer, 2019)

  Although many efforts are being made to provide educators with dashboards and tools to understand student behaviors within specific technological environments (learning analytics), there is a lack of work in supporting ...
• PyToBI: a toolkit for ToBI labeling under Python

  Domínguez Bajo, Mónica; Rohrer, Patrick Louis; Soler-Company, Juan (International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), 2019)

  PyToBI is introduced as a user-friendly toolkit for the automatic annotation of intonation contours using the Tones and Breaks Indexes convention, known as ToBI. Index Terms: speech prosody, ToBI, automatic annotation, speech ...
• A Model for evaluating popularity and semantic information variations in radio listening sessions

  Porcaro, Lorenzo; Gómez Gutiérrez, Emilia, 1975- (CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2019)

  Listening to music radios is an activity that since the 20th century is part of the cultural habits for people all over the world. While in the case of analog radios DJs are in charge of selecting the music to be ...
• CCA2-secure threshold broadcast encryption with shorter ciphertexts

  Daza, Vanesa; Herranz, Javier; Morillo, Paz; Ràfols, Carla (Springer, 2007)

  In a threshold broadcast encryption scheme, a sender chooses (ad-hoc) a set of n receivers and a threshold t, and then encrypts a message by using the public keys of all the receivers, in such a way that the original ...
• The Security of all bits using list decoding

  Morillo, Paz; Ràfols, Carla (Springer, 2009)

  The relation between list decoding and hard-core predicates has provided a clean and easy methodology to prove the hardness of certain predicates. So far this methodology has only been used to prove that the O(log logN) ...
• Constant size ciphertexts in threshold attribute-based encryption

  Herranz, Javier; Laguillaumie, Fabien; Ràfols, Carla (Springer, 2010)

  Attribute-based cryptography has emerged in the last years as a promising primitive for digital security. For instance, it provides good solutions to the problem of anonymous access control. In a ciphertext- policy ...

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