AES Technical Council and Committees
Semantic Audio Analysis

AES Technical Committee Members Virtual Office
Chair:Mark Sandler(Send E-mail)
Vice Chair:Dan Ellis(Send E-mail)
Vice Chair:Jay LeBoeuf(Send E-mail)

This committee provides a forum in AES for researchers and innovators to come together and discuss and disseminate the newest developments in the automatic extraction of meaning from audio. The committee is interested in how to extract meaning from audio signals, how to represent it - typically as metadata - and how to use it.

This includes developments in Music Information Retrieval, Intelligent Audio Editing, and Semantic Web for Music.

If you are interested in working with the committee and especially if you would like to propose a workshop or tutorial at a future Convention, please contact one of the above.


Areas of Concentration

TOPICS

Audio feature detection & extraction Audio classification Audio segmentation Music understanding

Musical similarity Automatic music transcription Computational Auditory Scene Analysis Signal and source separation

Musical data mining Statistical audio modelling Audio indexing, hashing, searching Audio Markup and XML

APPLICATIONS

Synthesis-driven audio coding MPEG7 Semantic web for music Music Web Services

Music Information Retrieval Intelligent editing and production Audio for Multimedia and Video Radio broadcast monitoring

Intelligent FX Intelligent Karaoke Music/Speech/Environment discrimination Environmental audio analysis

Digital Archiving and libraries Performance analysis (instrument tuition etc) Computational Musicology

Organised Events
  • Audio Gets Smart - a workshop held at AES 115th Convention. Speakers were Dan Ellis of Columbia University, Michael Casey of City University and Juergen Herre of Fraunhoefer IIS. Talks may be downloaded from this website.
  • Music 2.0: Music and the Semantic Web - a workshop held at the 122nd Convention in Vienna. Speakers were: Scott Cohen of The Orchard, Mark Sandler and Yves Raimond of Queen Mary's Centre for Digital Music, Lucas Gonze of Yahoo!Music, and Oscar Celma of the Music Technology Group at Pompeu Fabra University. For more details see this website


Meeting Report:
These documents do not necessarily express the official position of the AES on the issues discussed at these meetings, and only represent the views of committee members participating in the discussion. Any unauthorized use of these publications is prohibited. Authorization must be obtained from the Executive Director of the AES: E-mail, Tel: +1 212 661 8528, Address: 60 East 42nd Street, Room 2520, New York, New York 10165-2520, USA.

11/20/2006     Minutes of TC on Semantic Audio, 117st Convention
Description: Minutes of TC on Semantic Audio, 117st Convention

11/20/2006     Minutes of TC on Semantic Audio, 121st Convention
Description: Minutes of TC on Semantic Audio, 121st Convention

07/14/2004     Minutes of TC meeting, AES 116th
Description: Minutes of the meeting held on Sunday 9 May 2004

12/03/2003     Minutes of TC meeting 10 Oct 2003, 115th Convention
Description: minutes of tc meeting in new york, 115th aes

06/26/2003     Minutes of the First meeting of the AES TC on Semantic Audio Analysis
Description: Minutes of the inaugural meeting of the TC on SAA


Committee Members

Mark Sandler Juergen Herre Perfecto Herrera
Josh Reiss Geoffroy Peeters Thorsten Heinz
Russell Mason Tim Collins Schuyler Quackenbush
Jens Blauert Fabien Gouyon Emilia Gomez
Bozena Kostek Dan Ellis Stephen Pope
Michael Casey Anibal Ferreira Elizabeth Cohen
Michael Lee Francis Rumsey Laurent Daudet
Jeroen Breebaart Oliver Hellmuth James Johnston
David Ackerman Chris Lacinak Eric Jacobs
Jean-Dominique Polack Esben Skovenborg Vitor Soares
Luis Ortiz Berenguer Jay LeBoeuf

To request membership in this Technical Committee please e-mail the Chair by using the link above.

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