主讲人：Mark Plumbley教授

主题：Making Sense of Sound and Music  

时间：2013年12月11日（星期三）上午9:00-10:30

地点：主楼报告厅

语言：全英文，不设翻译。

主讲人简介：

Professor Mark Plumbley is Director of the Centre for Digital Music (C4DM) at Queen Mary University of London. His research interests include the analysis of audio and music signals, including environmental sound analysis, musical beat tracking, automatic music transcription and audio source separation. Mark is an EPSRC Leadership Fellow, leads the UK Digital Music Research Network, is a member of the IEEE Audio and Acoustic Signal Processing Technical Committee, and is an occasional choral singer.

讲座内容介绍：

Sound and music surrounds us all the time. Often we hear all this without really noticing: it just forms part of the background to our lives. The human ability to listen to sounds is something that is very hard for computers; but we are now beginning to build sound processing methods that can help us. In this talk I will discuss some of these techniques that can separate out different sound sources from a mixture, follow the notes and the beats in a piece of music, or show us the sound in new visual ways. These “machine listening” algorithms offer the potential to make sense of the huge amount of sound and music in our digital world: helping us to analyze sounds like birdsong or city sounds, find the music we want in huge collections of music tracks, or to create music in new ways.