Category Archives: tools

Paper(ISMIR2015): Comparative Music Similarity Modelling using Transfer Learning across User Groups

We presented “Comparative Music Similarity Modelling using Transfer Learning across User Groups“, as poster at IMSIR2015 in Malaga, Spain. This paper continues the similarity modelling methods described in my PhD thesis towards their intended use for modelling and comparing user … Continue reading

The DML Project

The Digital Music Lab is an AHRC project that researches and developes an infrastructure – both in methodology as in a technical framework – for musicological research on large datasets. It furthermore provides researchers and users with datasets and computational … Continue reading

Poster(Sysmus2014): Adapting computational music similarity models to geographic user groups

We presented “Adapting computational music similarity models to geographic user groups”, as poster at Sysmus 2014 at Goldsmiths University of London. Authors:Daniel Wolff and Tillman Weyde Music Informatics Group, City UniversityLondon. dowload poster Abstract: We present first results of experiments … Continue reading

Talk(DMRN+8): Adapting music similarity models to geographic user groups

We presented first experiments on adapting music similarity models to geographic user groups poster at DMRN+8 at Queen Mary University. Authors:Daniel Wolff, Tillman Weyde and Andrew MacFarlane Music Informatics Group, City UniversityLondon. dowload slides Abstract: We present first results of … Continue reading

Poster(DMRN+7): An online game for collecting music similarity data

We presented, “Spot the Odd Song Out”: an online game for collecting music similarity data poster at DMRN+7 at Queen Mary University. Authors:Daniel Wolff(1), Guillaume Bellec(2) and Tillman Weyde(1) (1) Music Informatics Group, City UniversityLondon. (2)École Nationale Supérieure de Techniques … Continue reading

GAME: Spot The Odd Song Out

In a collaboration with Guillaume Bellec at ENSTA Paristech, we have developed “Spot The Odd Song Out”, a music game on Facebook. The fast-paced multi-player game allows users to explore new music, based on their favourite genre. The researchers use … Continue reading

Paper + Code(ISMIR2012): A Systematic Comparison of Music Similarity Adaptation Approaches

Sebastian and myself presented the Paper (pdf) at ISMIR 2012 in the first poster session of Tuesday, October 9th 2012. Authors: Daniel Wolff(1), Sebastian Stober(2), Andreas Nürnberger(2), Tillman Weyde(1) (1)City UniversityLondon, (2)Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg Abstract: In order to support individual user … Continue reading

Paper (AdMIRe12): Adapting Similarity on the MagnaTagATune Database. Effects of Model and Feature Choices

This paper was presented at the AdMIRe workshop at the WWW2012 conference. The paper is freely available in the proceedings here. The PDF: presentation can be accessed here. Authors: Daniel Wolff and Tillman Weyde Abstract: Predicting user’s tastes on music … Continue reading

Paper (Ismir11): Adapting Metrics for Music Similarity using Comparative Ratings

This paper was presented at the Ismir 2011 in Miami. The paper is available in the online proceedings as pdf Authors: Daniel Wolff and Tillman Weyde Abstract: Understanding how we relate and compare pieces of music has been a topic … Continue reading

Bioacoustics Research Summary

Detecting Bird Sounds via Periodic Structures A Robust Pattern Recognition Approach to Unsupervised Animal Monitoring Diploma Thesis; Bonn University 2008 download My diploma thesis evolved during a collaborative project of the Multimedia Signal Processing Group of Bonn University and the … Continue reading