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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Matthew Edward Price Davies

Citation names

  • Matthew E. P. Davies

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
7216-935C-1282
ORCID iD
0000-0002-1315-3992
Google Scholar ID
BBkGcE8AAAAJ
Researcher Id
K-1701-2014
Scopus Author Id
55349903900

Email addresses

  • mepdavies@dei.uc.pt (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Engineering and Technology - Electrotechnical Engineering, Electronics and Informatics - Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Education
Degree Classification
2007/08/31
Concluded
 PhD in Electronic Engineering (Doctor of Philosophy)
Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom
"Towards Automatic Rhythmic Accompaniment" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2001/07
Concluded
 Computer Systems with Electronics (Bachelor)
King's College London, United Kingdom
"Evaluation of Audio Source Separation Algorithms" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 1st Class Honours
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2020/01/01 - 2021/11/30 Principal Investigator (Research) Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Informatica e Sistemas, Portugal
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Informatica e Sistemas, Portugal
2016/12/01 - 2019/12/31 Principal Investigator (Research) Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
2013/12/01 - 2016/11/30 Postdoc (Research) Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
2013/03/01 - 2013/11/30 Postdoc (Research) National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan
2011/04/19 - 2013/02/28 Postdoc (Research) Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
2007/04/01 - 2011/04/15 Postdoc (Research) Queen Mary University of London School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, United Kingdom

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2015 - 2019 Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal

Positions / Appointments

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2014/10/01 - 2019/12/31 Co-ordinator of the Sound and Music Computing Group Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2013/12/01 - 2016/11/30 Downbeat Detection in Musical Audio
SFRH/BPD/88722/2012
Post-doc
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2011/04/18 - 2013/02/28 Shake-It: Mechanisms of Groove and Applications
PTDC/EAT-MMU/112255/2009
Post-doc
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2018/10/01 - 2021/09/30 The Healing and Emotional Power of Music and Dance
PTDC/ART-PER/29641/2017
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Motricidade Humana, Portugal

Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2016/12/01 - 2019/12/31 CompMash - Music compatibility models for interactive mashup applications
IF/01566/2015/CP1304/CT0001
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. António Sá Pinto; Matthew E. P. Davies. "Tapping Along to the Difficult Ones: Leveraging User-Input for Beat Tracking in Highly Expressive Musical Content". In Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, 2021.
    In press
  2. Bernardes, Gilberto; Davies, Matthew E. P.; Guedes, Carlos. "A Hierarchical Harmonic Mixing Method". In Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 151-170. Springer International Publishing, 2018.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-030-01692-0_11
  3. Bernardes, Gilberto; Cocharro, Diogo; Guedes, Carlos; Davies, Matthew E. P.. "Conchord: An Application for Generating Musical Harmony by Navigating in the Tonal Interval Space". In Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 243-260. Springer International Publishing, 2016.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-319-46282-0_15
  4. Damnjanovic, I.; Davies, M.E.P.; Plumbley, M.D.. "SMALLbox - An evaluation framework for sparse representations and dictionary learning algorithms". In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 418-425. 2010.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-642-15995-4_52
Conference abstract
  1. Filippo Bonini Baraldi; Matthew E. P. Davies; André Viana; Daniel Tercio. "Multi-modal recordings of Maracatu "de baque solto" (Brazil): technical concerns and preliminary analyses". Paper presented in First Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Sound, Movement, and the Sciences, 2021.
    Accepted
  2. António Sá Pinto; Inês Campos Monteiro Sabino Domingues; Matthew E. P. Davies. "Shift If You Can: Counting and Visualising Correction Operations for Beat Tracking Evaluation". Paper presented in Late-Breaking Demo Session of ISMIR, 2020.
    Published
  3. Patricio López-Serrano; Matthew E. P. Davies; Jason Hockman; Christian Dittmar; Meinard Müller. "Break-informed Audio Decomposition For Interactive Redrumming". Paper presented in Late-Breaking Demo Session of ISMIR, 2018.
    Published
Conference paper
  1. Matthew E. P. Davies; Magdalena Fuentes; João Fonseca; Luís Alberto Teixeira Aly; Marco Jerónimo; Filippo Bonini Baraldi. "Moving in Time: Computational Analysis of Microtiming in Maracatu de Baque Solto". Paper presented in International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR), 2021.
    Published
  2. Ramires, A; Bernardes, G; Davies, MEP; Serra, X. "TIV.lib: an open-source library for the tonal description of musical audio". Paper presented in International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx), Vienna, 2020.
    Published
  3. Sebastian Böck; Matthew E. P. Davies. "Deconstruct, Analyse, Reconstruct: How to improve Tempo, Beat, and Downbeat Estimation". Paper presented in International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR), 2020.
    Published
  4. Böck, S; Davies, MEP; Knees, P. "Multi-Task Learning of Tempo and Beat: Learning One to Improve the Other". Paper presented in International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR), 2019.
    Published
  5. Nieto, O; McCallum, M; Davies, MEP; Robertson, A; Stark, AM; Egozy, E. "The Harmonix Set: Beats, Downbeats, and Functional Segment Annotations of Western Popular Music". Paper presented in International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR), 2019.
    Published
  6. Davies, MEP; Böck, S. "Temporal convolutional networks for musical audio beat tracking". Paper presented in European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), 2019.
    Published • 10.23919/eusipco.2019.8902578
  7. António Sá Pinto; Matthew E. P. Davies. "Towards user-informed beat tracking of musical audio". Paper presented in International Symposium on Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research (CMMR), 2019.
    Published
  8. Marius Miron; Matthew E. P. Davies. "High frequency magnitude spectrogram reconstruction for music mixtures using convolutional autoencoders". Paper presented in International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx), 2018.
    Published
  9. Ramires, A; Cocharro, D; Davies, MEP. "An audio-only method for advertisement detection in broadcast television content". Paper presented in Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition (RecPad), 2017.
    Published
  10. Ramires, A; Penha, R; Davies, MEP. "User Specific Adaptation in Automatic Transcription of Vocalised Percussion". Paper presented in Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition (RecPad), 2017.
    Published
  11. Bernardes, G; Davies, MEP; Guedes, C. "Automatic Musical Key Estimation With Adaptive Mode Bias". Paper presented in International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2017.
    Published • 10.1109/ICASSP.2017.7952169
  12. Gilberto Bernardes; Matthew E. P. Davies; Carlos Guedes. "A Perceptually-Motivated Harmonic Compatibility Method for Music Mixing". Paper presented in International Symposium on Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research (CMMR), 2017.
    Published
  13. Bernardes, G; Aly, L; Davies, MEP. "Seed: Resynthesizing environmental sounds from examples". Paper presented in Sound and Music Computing Conference, 2016.
    Published
  14. Bruno Dias; David Manuel Martins de Matos; Matthew E. P. Davies; H. Sofia Pinto. "Time Stretching & Pitch Shifting with the Web Audio API: Where are we at?". Paper presented in Web Audio Conference (WAC-2016), 2016.
    Published
  15. António Sá Pinto; Matthew E. P. Davies; Perfecto Herrera. "Semantic Modelling for User Interaction with Sonic Content". Paper presented in Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition (RecPad), 2016.
    Published
  16. Hockman, J.A.; Davies, M.E.P.. "Computational strategies for breakbeat classification and resequencing in hardcore, jungle and drum and bass". Paper presented in International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx), 2015.
    Published
  17. Gebhardt, R.; Davies, M.E.P.; Seeber, B.. "Harmonic mixing based on roughness and pitch commonality". Paper presented in International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx), 2015.
    Published
  18. Davies, MEP; Stark, AM; Gouyon, F; Goto, M. "Improvasher: A Real-Time Mashup System for Live Musical Input". Paper presented in International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), 2014.
    Published
  19. Robertson, A; Davies, M; Stark, A. "Real-time percussive beat tracking". Paper presented in 53rd AES International Conference on Semantic Audio, 2014.
    Published
  20. Cocharro, D; Sioros, G; Caetano, M; Davies, MEP. "Real-time manipulation of syncopation in audio loops". Paper presented in ICMC | SMC Joint Conference, 2014.
    Published
  21. Davies, MEP; Böck, S. "Evaluating the Evaluation Measures for Beat Tracking". Paper presented in International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, 2014.
    Published
  22. Bernardes, G.; Davies, M.E.P.; Guedes, C.; Pennycook, B.. "Considering roughness to describe and generate vertical musical structure in content-based algorithmic-assisted audio composition". Paper presented in ICMC | SMC Joint Conference, 2014.
    Published
  23. Davies, MEP; Hamel, P; Yoshii, K; Goto, M. "AutoMashUpper: An Automatic Multi-Song Mashup System". Paper presented in International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, 2013.
    Published
  24. Hamel, P; Davies, MEP; Yoshii, K; Goto, M. "Transfer Learning In Mir: Sharing Learned Latent Representations For Music Audio Classification And Similarity". Paper presented in International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, 2013.
    Published
  25. Miron, M.; Davies, M.E.P.; Gouyon, F.. "An open-source drum transcription system for Pure Data and Max MSP". Paper presented in International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2013.
    Published • 10.1109/icassp.2013.6637641
  26. Holzapfel, A; Davies, MEP; Zapata, JR; Oliveira, JL; Gouyon, F. "On The Automatic Identification Of Difficult Examples For Beat Tracking: Towards Building New Evaluation Datasets". Paper presented in International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2012.
    Published • 10.1109/icassp.2012.6287824
  27. Hockman, J.A.; Davies, M.E.P.; Fujinaga, I.. "One in the jungle: Downbeat detection in hardcore, jungle, and drum and bass". Paper presented in International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, 2012.
    Published
  28. Zapata, J.R.; Holzapfel, A.; Davies, M.E.P.; Oliveira, J.L.; Gouyon, F.. "Assigning a confidence threshold on automatic beat annotation in large datasets". Paper presented in International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, 2012.
    Published
  29. Degara, N; Pena, A; Davies, MEP; Plumbley, MD. "Note Onset Detection Using Rhythmic Structure". Paper presented in International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2010.
    Published • 10.1109/icassp.2010.5495220
  30. Stark, A.M.; Davies, M.E.P.; Plumbley, M.D.. "Real-time beat-synchronous analysis of musical audio". Paper presented in International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx), 2009.
    Published
  31. Davies, MEP; Plumbley, MD; Eck, D. "Towards a musical beat emphasis function". Paper presented in EEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA), 2009.
    Published • 10.1109/aspaa.2009.5346462
  32. Davies, M.E.P.; Plumbley, M.D.. "Exploring the effect of rhythmic style classification on automatic tempo estimation". Paper presented in European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), 2008.
    Published
  33. Hockman, J.A.; Bello, J.P.; Davies, M.E.P.; Plumbley, M.D.. "Automated rhythmic transformation of musical audio". Paper presented in International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx), 2008.
    Published
  34. Stark, A.M.; Davies, M.E.P.; Plumbley, M.D.. "Rhythmic analysis for real-time audio effects". Paper presented in International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), 2008.
    Published
  35. Jacobson, K.; Davies, M.; Sandler, M.. "The effects of lossy audio encoding on onset detection tasks". Paper presented in 125th AES Convention, 2008.
    Published
  36. Davies, MEP; Plumbley, MD. "On the use of entropy for beat tracking evaluation". Paper presented in International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2007.
    Published • 10.1109/icassp.2007.367317
  37. Jacobson, K.; Davies, M.; Sandler, M.. "Towards textual annotation of rhythmic style in electronic dance music". Paper presented in 123rd AES Convention, 2007.
    Published
  38. Stark, A.M.; Plumbley, M.D.; Davies, M.E.P.. "Audio effects for real-time performance using beat tracking". Paper presented in 122nd AES Convention, 2007.
    Published
  39. Stark, A.M.; Plumbley, M.D.; Davies, M.E.P.. "Real-time beat-synchronous audio effects". Paper presented in International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), 2007.
    Published • 10.1145/1279740.1279816
  40. Davies, M.E.P.; Plumbley, M.D.. "A spectral difference approach to downbeat extraction in musical audio". Paper presented in European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), 2006.
    Published
  41. Davies, MEP; Plumbley, MD. "Beat tracking with a two state model". Paper presented in International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2005.
    Published • 10.1109/icassp.2005.1415691
  42. Davies, MEP; Brossier, PM; Plumbley, MD. "Beat tracking towards automatic musical accompaniment". Paper presented in 118th AES Convention, 2005.
    Published
  43. Davies, MEP; Plumbley, MD. "Causal Tempo Tracking of Audio". Paper presented in International Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR), 2004.
    Published
Edited book
  1. Aramaki, M; Davies, MEP; Martinet, RK; Ystad, S. Music Technology with Swing - 13th International Symposium, CMMR 2017, Matosinhos, Portugal, September 25-28, 2017, Revised Selected Papers. 2018.
Journal article
  1. Pinto, António; Böck, Sebastian; Cardoso, Jaime; Davies, Matthew. "User-Driven Fine-Tuning for Beat Tracking". Electronics 10 13 (2021): 1518. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/electronics10131518.
    10.3390/electronics10131518
  2. Sulun, S; Davies, MEP. "On Filter Generalization for Music Bandwidth Extension Using Deep Neural Networks". IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing (2021):
    10.1109/jstsp.2020.3037485
  3. Sioros, G; Davies, MEP; Guedes, C. "A generative model for the characterization of musical rhythms". Journal of New Music Research (2018):
    10.1080/09298215.2017.1409769
  4. Jin, Craig T.; Davies, Matthew E.P.; Campisi, Patrizio. "Embedded Systems Feel the Beat in New Orleans: Highlights from the IEEE Signal Processing Cup 2017 Student Competition [SP Competitions]". IEEE Signal Processing Magazine 34 4 (2017): 143-170. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/msp.2017.2698075.
    10.1109/msp.2017.2698075
  5. Bernardes, G; Cocharro, D; Caetano, M; Guedes, C; Davies, MEP. "A multi-level tonal interval space for modelling pitch relatedness and musical consonance". JOURNAL OF NEW MUSIC RESEARCH (2016): https://www.authenticus.pt/P-00K-KKF.
    10.1080/09298215.2016.1182192
  6. Bernardes, G; Cocharro, D; Guedes, C; Davies, MEP. "Harmony Generation Driven by a Perceptually Motivated Tonal Interval Space". COMPUTERS IN ENTERTAINMENT (2016): https://www.authenticus.pt/P-00M-C5W.
    10.1145/2991145
  7. Gebhardt, RB; Davies, MEP; Seeber, BU. "Psychoacoustic Approaches for Harmonic Music Mixing". APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL (2016): https://www.authenticus.pt/P-00K-DYZ.
    10.3390/app6050123
  8. Sioros, G; Miron, M; Davies, M; Gouyon, F; Madison, G. "Syncopation creates the sensation of groove in synthesized music examples". FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY (2014): https://www.authenticus.pt/P-009-TD6.
    10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01036
  9. Davies, M.E.P.; Hamel, P.; Yoshii, K.; Goto, M.. "AutoMashUpper: Automatic creation of multi-song music mashups". IEEE/ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing 22 12 (2014): 1726-1737. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84921738753&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1109/TASLP.2014.2347135
  10. Zapata, J.R.; Davies, M.E.P.; Gómez, E.. "Multi-feature beat tracking". IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing 22 4 (2014): 816-825. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84898080595&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1109/taslp.2014.2305252
  11. Davies, M; Madison, G; Silva, P; Gouyon, P. "THE EFFECT OF MICROTIMING DEVIATIONS ON THE PERCEPTION OF GROOVE IN SHORT RHYTHMS". MUSIC PERCEPTION (2013): https://www.authenticus.pt/P-006-ADC.
    10.1525/mp.2013.30.5.497
  12. Holzapfel, A; Davies, MEP; Zapata, JR; Oliveira, JL; Gouyon, F. "Selective Sampling for Beat Tracking Evaluation". IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUDIO SPEECH AND LANGUAGE PROCESSING (2012): https://www.authenticus.pt/P-002-49N.
    10.1109/tasl.2012.2205244
  13. Oliveira, JL; Davies, MEP; Gouyon, F; Reis, LP. "Beat Tracking for Multiple Applications: A Multi-Agent System Architecture With State Recovery". IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUDIO SPEECH AND LANGUAGE PROCESSING (2012): https://www.authenticus.pt/P-002-36S.
    10.1109/tasl.2012.2210878
  14. Degara, N; Argones Rua, EA; Pena, A; Torres Guijarro, S; Davies, MEP; Plumbley, MD. "Reliability-Informed Beat Tracking of Musical Signals". IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUDIO SPEECH AND LANGUAGE PROCESSING (2012): https://www.authenticus.pt/P-009-K23.
    10.1109/tasl.2011.2160854
  15. Streeter, E.; Davies, M.E.P.; Reiss, J.D.; Hunt, A.; Caley, R.; Roberts, C.. "Computer aided music therapy evaluation: Testing the Music Therapy Logbook prototype 1 system". Arts in Psychotherapy 39 1 (2012): 1-10. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-82355164578&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.aip.2011.11.004
  16. Degara, N; Davies, MEP; Pena, A; Plumbley, MD. "Onset Event Decoding Exploiting the Rhythmic Structure of Polyphonic Music". IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN SIGNAL PROCESSING (2011): https://www.authenticus.pt/P-002-M7Q.
    10.1109/jstsp.2011.2146229
  17. Davies, MEP; Degara, N; Plumbley, MD. "Measuring the Performance of Beat Tracking Algorithms Using a Beat Error Histogram". IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING LETTERS (2011): https://www.authenticus.pt/P-009-K0S.
    10.1109/lsp.2010.2102018
  18. McKinney, M.F.; Moelants, D.; Davies, M.E.P.; Klapuri, A.. "Evaluation of audio beat tracking and music tempo extraction algorithms". Journal of New Music Research 36 1 (2007): 1-16. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-36048933676&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1080/09298210701653252
  19. Davies, MEP; Plumbley, MD. "Context-dependent beat tracking of musical audio". IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUDIO SPEECH AND LANGUAGE PROCESSING (2007): https://www.authenticus.pt/P-00A-8YG.
    10.1109/tasl.2006.885257
Online resource
  1. Davies, Matthew E. P.; Böck, Sebastian; Magdalena Fuentes. Tempo, Beat, and Downbeat Estimation. 2021. https://tempobeatdownbeat.github.io/tutorial/intro.html.
Preface / Postscript
  1. Aramaki, M; Davies, MEP; Kronland Martinet, R; Ystad, S. "Preface". Preface to Music Technology with Swing - 13th International Symposium, CMMR 2017. 2018.
    Published • 10.1029/gm128p0vii
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2021/02/03 Connecting ethnomusicology and machine learning: Multidisciplinary analysis of Maracatu de Baque Solto RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion Seminars (invited)
RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion, University of Oslo (Oslo, Norway)
2020/12/09 Analysing the musical surface of Maracatu de Baque Solto Open Classes on Sound Design (invited)
University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2020/04/08 Musical audio beat tracking for creative content repurposing Cognitive and Media Systems group at CISUC (invited)
CISUC (Coimbra, Portugal)
2019/05/27 Experiments in beat tracking as a 'late adopter' of deep learning Berling Music Information Retrieval Meetup (invited)
TU Berlin (Berlin, Germany)
2018/12/14 Towards musical bandwidth expansion using convolutional autoencoders TU Wien Informatics Seminar (invited)
TU Wien (Vienna, Austria)
2018/10/23 Creative Applications of Music Information Research Data Science Portugal (DSPT) (invited)
Department of Science and Technology (DCT) of the University Portucalense (Porto, Portugal)
2018/10/18 Finding the beat in music signals.. .and then? Interdisciplinary Seminar: Acoustics and the study of sounds (invited)
INET MD / New University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
2017/07/04 Beat tracking evaluation from the MIR perspective: How we try to measure if computer algorithms can tap the beat 16th Rhythm Production and Perception Workshop (keynote)
Birmingham City University (Birmingham, United Kingdom)
2017/03/19 Real-time beat tracking with undergraduates: A report on the 2017 Signal Processing Cup Musical Rhythm: Cross-Disciplinary and Multi-Cultural Perspectives III (invitation-only workshop)
NYU Abu-Dhabi Institute (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates)
2016/03/01 Temporal Precision in the Evaluation of Music Structure Estimation Algorithms Dagstuhl Seminar 16092 Computational Music Structure Analysis (invitation-only workshop)
Schloss Dagstuhl (Dagstuhl, Germany)
2015/09/24 Harmonic Mixing based on Sensory Roughness DMT Lab seminar (invited)
Birmingham City University
2015/02/25 Towards Automatic Multi-song Music Mashups (invited) Special Session on Composing by Listening, Learning & Remixing in the ESART Forum
IPCB (Castelo Branco, Portugal)
2014/10/13 Evaluating the evaluation measures for beat tracking Cross-Disciplinary and Multi-Cultural Perspectives on Musical Rhythm and Improvisation II (invitation-only workshop)
NYU Abu Dhabi Institute

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2019/10/01 - Current Video-based Music Generation
Supervisor
 Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (PhD)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2016/10/01 - Current Content-based creative manipulation of music signals
Supervisor
 Media Digitais (PhD)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2019/10/01 - 2020/07/25 Multi-channel approaches for musical audio content analysis
Co-supervisor
 MSc in Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores, 2020 (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2018/10/01 - 2019/07/17 Soundscape Generation Using Web Audio Archives
Co-supervisor
 Multimédia (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2018/10/01 - 2019/07/11 Real-Time Audio Fingerprinting for Advertising Detection in Streaming Broadcast Content
Co-supervisor
 Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2019 - 2019 Musical Cross Synthesis using Matrix Factorisation
Supervisor
 Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2018 - 2018 Audição Musical Afetiva: Recurso a expressões faciais para recomendação musical
Supervisor
 Multimédia (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2016/10/01 - 2017/07/12 Automatic transcription of vocalized percussion
Co-supervisor
 Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2016/10/01 - 2017/07/12 Interactive Manipulation of Musical Melody in Audio Recordings
Co-supervisor
 Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2015/10/05 - 2016/06/30 Music Compatibility Models and Transformations for Harmonic Mixing
Supervisor
 Computer Science (Master)
Politecnico di Milano Dipartimento di Elettronica Informazione e Bioingegneria, Italy
2015/10/05 - 2016/06/30 Rhythmic Compatibility for Music Mixing
Supervisor
 Computer Science (Master)
Politecnico di Milano Dipartimento di Elettronica Informazione e Bioingegneria, Italy
2016 - 2016 Cousax - Sistema de apoio e desenvolvimento a iniciantes de instrumento musical
Co-supervisor
 Engenharia de Redes e Sistemas Informáticos (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2021 - 2021 Ubiquitous Music 2021 (2021/09/06 - 2021/09/08)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2019 - 2019 WIMIR Workshop: Building and Evaluating a Musical Audio Beat Tracking System (2019/11/03 - 2019/11/03)
Workshop (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Technische Universiteit Delft, Netherlands
2018 - 2018 DAFx 2018 — 21th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects Conference (2018/09/04 - 2018/09/08)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 Universidade de Aveiro Instituto de Engenharia Eletrónica e Informática de Aveiro, Portugal
2017 - 2017 CMMR 2017 — 13th International Symposium on Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research (2017/09/25 - 2017/09/28)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
2016 - 2017 IEEE Signal Processing Cup 2017 (2017/03/05 - 2017/03/05)
Other (Co-organisor)
 IEEE Signal Processing Society, United States
2014 - 2014 Introduction to musical beat tracking and creative transformations in MATLAB: SINFO XXI Workshop (2014/02/25 - 2014/02/25)
Workshop (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2012 - 2012 Workshop on the Multidisciplinary Aspects of Groove in Music (2012/10/13 - 2012/10/13)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Universidade Católica Portuguesa Centro de Investigação em Ciência e Tecnologia das Artes, Portugal
2010 - 2010 Machine Listening Workshop (2010/12/20 - 2010/12/20)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Queen Mary University of London School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, United Kingdom

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2021/01/14 Towards Global Tempo Estimation and Rhythm-oriented Genre Classification Based on Harmonic Characteristics of Rhythm
Thesis Member
 Hadrien Foroughmand Aarabi (PhD)
Sorbonne Université, France
2019/12/16 Automatic Drum Transcription Using Deep Learning
(Thesis) Arguer
 Carl Southall (PhD)
Birmingham City University Faculty of Technology Engineering and the Environment, United Kingdom
2019/11/12 Multi-Scale Computational Rhythm Analysis: A Framework for Sections, Downbeats, and Microtiming
(Thesis) Arguer
 Magdalena Fuentes (PhD)
Université Paris-Saclay, France
2019/05/08 Emotion-based Analysis and Classification of Audio Music
Thesis Member
 Renato Eduardo Silva Panda (PhD)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2018/12/13 Deep Learning Methods for Drum Transcription and Drum Pattern Generation
(Thesis) Arguer
 Richard Vogl (PhD)
Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, Austria
2018/12/05 Multi-Scale and Multi-Dimensional Modelling of Musical Structure with Polytopic Graphs
Thesis Member
 Corentin Louboutin (PhD)
Université de Rennes 1, France
2018/04/25 Similarity and Style in Electronic Dance Music Drum Rhythms
President of the jury
 Daniel Gómez Marín (PhD)
Universitat Pompeu Fabra Departament de Tecnologies de la Informació i les Comunicacions, Spain
2017/09/19 Modèles de compression et critères de complexité pour la description et l'inférence de structure musicale
Thesis Member
 Courentin Guichaoua (PhD)
Université de Rennes 1, France
2017/04/27 Emotion-based Analysis and Classification of Music Lyrics
Thesis Member
 Ricardo Manuel da Silva Malheiro (PhD)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2015/01/08 Machine Learning Techniques for Music Information Retrieval
Thesis Member
 Gonçalo Caetano Marques (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2008/01/01 - 2019/12/31 IEEE Member

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2018 - Current CMMR Steering Committee
Member
 Laboratoire PRISM Perception Représentations Image Son Musique, France

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2021 - Current Rhythm Production and Perception Workshop
2018 - Current International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx)
2017 - Current International Symposium on Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research (CMMR)
2012 - Current Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC)
2005 - Current International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR)
2018 - 2018 Workshop on Intelligent Music Interfaces for Listening and Creation (MILC)
2018 - 2018 International Conference on Live Interfaces (ICLI)
2017 - 2017 Semantic Audio
2015 - 2015 Immersive Media Experiences

Consulting

Activity description Institution / Organization
2016/02/01 - 2016/04/30 MaRTA - Musical Rhythm Transformation Analysis. Consultancy for UK media company LickWorX Ltd Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2017 - 2019 Interactive Music Multimédia (Mestrado) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2015 - 2016 Analysis and Procedural Generation of Musical Content Multimédia (Mestrado) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal

Evaluation committee

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization Funding entity
2019 - 2019 Austrian Science Fund (FWF) - Funding Reviewer
Evaluator
 Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung
2018 - 2018 Dutch Research Council (NWO) - Funding reviewer
Evaluator
 Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
2017 - 2017 Regional Program STIC-AmSud 2017 - Funding reviewer
Evaluator

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2021 - Current Multimodal Technologies MDPI
2020 - Current Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval (Editor) Ubiquity Press
2019 - Current Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval (reviewer) Ubiquity Press
2017 - Current Music Perception: An interdisciplinary journal University of California Press
2016 - Current Psychology of Music Sage
2007 - Current IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing (reviewer) IEEE Signal Processing Society
2006 - Current Journal of New Music Research Routledge
2014 - 2018 IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing (Associate Editor) IEEE Signal Processing Society
2014 - 2018 EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing EURASIP
2017 - 2017 Frontiers in Psychology Frontiers
2015 - 2016 Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Springer
Distinctions

Award

2020 ISMIR 2020 Scientific Committee Award for Best Evaluation
2015 Best Paper Award: 18th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx-15)

Other distinction

2018 Certificate of Merit for "outstanding editorial board service" for the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing
IEEE Signal Processing Society, United States