AI Grant and EUSIPCO paper accepted!

Our EUSIPCO 2017 paper got accepted! This paper was done in collaboration with Olga Slizovskaia, Rong Gong, Emilia Gómez and Xavier Serra. And it is entitled: “Timbre Analysis of Music Audio Signals with Convolutional Neural Networks”.

Paper blogpost with further details!

Link to the paper!

And I have been awarded with one of the AI Grants given by Nat Friedman for creating a dataset of sounds from Freesound and using it in my research. The AI grants are an initiative of Nat Friedman, Cofounder/CEO of Xamarin, to support open-source AI projects. The project I proposed is part of an initiative of the MTG to promote the use of Freesound.org for research. The goal is to create a large dataset of sounds, following the same principles as Imagenet – in order to make audio AI more accessible to everyone. The project will contribute in developing an infrastructure to organize a crowdsource tool to convert Freesound into a research dataset. The following video presents the aforementioned project: