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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2018 has been a fascinating year for the Machine Listening Lab. Here are the headlines! Grant success and projects Emmanouil Benetos is co-investigator (Co-I) for the Science Foundation Ireland funded PhD project “Data-driven quality prediction for digitally restored audio archives”, …
Machine Listening Lab researchers will be participating at the 2018 Workshop and Challenge on Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE). The workshop, which is at its third iteration, is taking place on 19-20 November 2018 in Surrey, …
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The Machine Listening Lab at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) would like to invite applicants for PhD positions to be held jointly between the Alan Turing Institute and QMUL. Three PhD students across QMUL will be sponsored by this …
– Special session at IEEE ICASSP 2019 – Organisers: Dan Stowell, Naomi Harte, Theo Damoulas Summary: Wildlife bioacoustics is witnessing a surge in both data volumes and computational methods. Monitoring projects worldwide collect many thousands of hours of audio …
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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The second Bird Audio Detection challenge, now running as Task 3 in the 2018 DCASE Challenge, has been running all month, and the leaderboard is hotting up! There’s less than a week to go. Who will get the strongest results? …
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Over the recent holiday weekend, in order to spread ideas about bird sounds and ecology, we made groups of kids and grown-ups run around in a field wearing bird heads and searching for food. This was Animal Diplomacy Bureau, a …
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: …
C4DM researchers have had a lot of success this year in being accepted for ICASSP 2018, the IEEE’s International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing. Most of these papers are led by C4DM PhD students, on MIR and Machine …