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A global study (75 researchers, 46 countries!) finds predictable melodies in songs may help us bond & synchronise as a group. Dr Emmanouil Benetos (QMUL Electronic Engineering and Computer Science) contributed his expertise in analysing the music, revealing deep connections between music & language. scientificamerican.com/article/why-do…

On 1-2 July 2024, C4DM researchers will participate at the UK and Ireland Speech Workshop (UKIS 2024). See you all at UKIS! c4dm.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/news/2024-06-2…

With the deadline for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellowships approaching, we invite applicants to carry out their research with us! More info at: …sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/postdo… c4dm.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/get-involved/

``YourMT3+: Multi-instrument Music Transcription with Enhanced Transformer Architectures and Cross-dataset Stem Augmentation,'' Sungkyun Chang, Emmanouil Benetos, Holger Kirchhoff, Simon Dixon, ift.tt/Lm9zeyY

``MuChoMusic: Evaluating Music Understanding in Multimodal Audio-Language Models,'' Benno Weck, Ilaria Manco, Emmanouil Benetos, Elio Quinton, George Fazekas, Dmitry Bogdanov, ift.tt/etSLsqJ

Work from our group will be presented at #EUSIPCO2024 later this August. For more information, check: c4dm.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/news/2024-08-0…

📢Job opening: Research Assistant / Postdoctoral Research Assistant in music information research C4DM at QMUL QMUL Electronic Engineering and Computer Science on a project funded by Innovate UK Closing date: 31 August 2024 - more info: qmul-jobs.tal.net/vx/mobile-0/ap…

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We address the challenge of domain shift when training on focal recordings and testing on soundscape recordings by using supervised contrastive learning. We evaluate our approach on a large-scale few-shot benchmark for bird sound classification.

A bit late posting this, but a few weeks ago we released MuChoMusic, a new benchmark for music understanding, which will be presented at ISMIR Conference this year. If you’re working on multimodal audio LLMs, you might want to add this to your evals!

``Domain-Invariant Representation Learning of Bird Sounds,'' Ilyass Moummad, Romain Serizel, Emmanouil Benetos, Nicolas Farrugia, ift.tt/BOGqfvX

Exciting news! We're thrilled to introduce OmniBench: a groundbreaking benchmark for evaluating omni-language models (OLMs) that can process visual, acoustic, and textual inputs simultaneously! 🖼️🔊📝 huggingface.co/papers/2409.15… #Multimodal#LLM

We are pleased to invite you to contribute to the 2024 Digital Music Research Network (DMRN) workshop! This year, we will have Stefan Lattner Stefan Lattner from Sony CSL (Paris) as our keynote speaker. More information at: qmul.ac.uk/dmrn/dmrn19/

ISMIR Conference is approaching and we are very glad to announce that we will have 17 academic papers from our group, as well as Tutorials, MIREX tasks, TISMIR presentations, and Satellite Events! For a complete list, please see: c4dm.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/news/2024-10-2…

🐦Simplifying access to bird audio data with 6-sec segments selected via PANN in PyTorch (.pt) format! Xeno-Canto, a large pre-training dataset: huggingface.co/datasets/ilyas… Eval datasets from BIRB for few-shot learning: zenodo.org/records/139943… More info: github.com/ilyassmoummad/…

🎶🏆 Celebrating Outstanding Research: Best Paper Award Nominee! 🏆🎶 It’s an honor to announce one of this year’s Best Paper Award Nominees! #ismir2024 #bestpapernominee #musicinformationretrieval

🎶🏆 Shining a Light on Excellence: Best Paper Award Nominee! 🏆🎶 Thrilled to recognize a best paper award nominee at this year’s ISMIR 2024 conference! #ismir2024 #bestpapernominee #musicinformationretrieval

In session 6 we had presentations from Ilaria Manco (best paper nominee, w/ Emmanouil Benetos Elio Quinton) and Yannis Vasilakis 🎵

My last ISMIR Conference as a PhD student is officially over! I’m leaving SF feeling inspired and incredibly proud of being part of such a creative and supportive research community. And honoured to have received a best paper award (together with my co-author Benno Weck)!

A really great opportunity for AI specialists outside the UK to work more closely with a UK expert. Deadline is 12 December, so please hurry. If you are in AI and Music, then C4DM at QMUL QMUL Electronic Engineering and Computer Science would be super happy to welcome you.