The Machine Listening Lab is welcoming PhD applications for September 2021 entry. Applicants from all nationalities can apply across different funding schemes and PhD programmes. Current PhD funding opportunities for September 2021 entry include: AIM Centre for Doctoral Training studentships …
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Based on a conversation we had in the Machine Listening Lab last week, here are some blogs and other things you can read when you’re – say – a new PhD student who wants to get started with applying/understanding deep …
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Two of the Machine Listening Lab’s lead academics, Dan Stowell and Emmanouil Benetos, have been awarded Turing Fellowships. The Alan Turing Institute (ATI) is a new UK national institute for data science and artificial intelligence (founded in 2015). Our university …
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On 29th March 2018 we held a Machine Listening Lab symposium to gather together people across the university who are doing work in machine listening. The programme of talks included: Emmanouil Benetos (QMUL): Machine listening for music and everyday sounds: …
2017 has been a fascinating year for the Machine Listening Lab. Here are the headlines! Grant success and projects: Rob Lachlan, along with David Clayton and Dan Stowell, were awarded a BBSRC grant for a £659,000 project to study “Machine …
DEADLINE EXTENDED: 30th May 2017 We are pleased to announce a symposium on “Machine Learning Methods in Bioacoustics”, to be held as part of the 2017 International Bioacoustics Congress (Haridwar, India, 8-13 October 2017). To submit an abstract, see: http://www.ibac2017india.com/abstracts/ …
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Recently we launched the Bird Audio Detection Challenge, providing new datasets and a contest to improve the state of the art in general-purpose bird detection in audio. In our previous post we talked about the problem of generalisation, demonstrating that …
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Recently we launched the Bird Audio Detection Challenge, providing new datasets and a contest to improve the state of the art in general-purpose bird detection in audio. So what is the state of the art? For a thorough answer, you …
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On behalf of the organising committee and the IEEE AASP TC,* we invite you to consider the first Bird Audio Detection Challenge: https://machine-listening.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/bird-audio-detection-challenge/ Detecting bird sounds in audio is an important basic task in various applications. The current generation of …
Researchers at the Machine Listening Lab at QMUL won three of five awards at the 2016 International Symposium on Music Information Retrieval! “Best Student Paper” was awarded to Maria Panteli, Emmanouil Benetos and Simon Dixon: Learning a Feature Space for …