CP Results in the DCASE 2019 Acoustic Event Detection and Classification Challenge, opens an external URL in a new window:

• Task 1a - Acoustic Scene Classification, opens an external URL in a new window:
  Rank 2 (Team Ranking)  for CP Team Khaled Koutini, Hamid Eghbal-zadeh & Gerhard Widmer (see Report, opens an external URL in a new window)
• Task 1b - Acoustic Scene Classification under Distribution Mismatch, opens an external URL in a new window:
  Rank 3 for CP Team Hamid Eghbal-zadeh, Khaled Koutini, and Gerhard Widmer (Report, opens an external URL in a new window)
  Rank 4 by CP Student! Team Paul Primus and David Eitelsebner (Report, opens an external URL in a new window)
• Task 1c - Open-Set Acoustic Scene Classification, opens an external URL in a new window:
  Rank 4 for SAL/CP Team Bernhard Lehner and Khaled Koutini (Report, opens an external URL in a new window)
• Task 2 - Audio Tagging with Noisy Labels and Minimal Supervision, opens an external URL in a new window:
  Rank 5 for CP Team Khaled Koutini, Hamid Eghbal-zadeh & Gerhard Widmer. (Report, opens an external URL in a new window)

(July 2019)

CP Results in the DCASE 2018 Acoustic Event Detection and Classification Challenge, opens an external URL in a new window:

• CP Team (Matthias Dorfer, Bernhard Lehner, Hamid Eghbal-zadeh, Christop Heindl, Fabian Paischer and Gerhard Widmer) achieve Rank 2, opens an external URL in a new window in the Acoustic Scene Classification Task, opens an external URL in a new window. Here is a report on how we did it, opens an external URL in a new window.
• CP Team (Matthias Dorfer and Gerhard Widmer) achieve Rank2, opens an external URL in a new window (out of 558 participating teams, opens an external URL in a new window) in the General-purpose audio tagging of Freesound content with AudioSet labels Challenge, opens an external URL in a new window. You can find a detail description ouf our approach here, opens an external URL in a new window.

(July 2018)

CP graduate Florian Henkel wins the third place of the Adolf-Adam-Award 2018, opens an external URL in a new window for his master's theses in computer science with the title "A Regularization Study for Policy Gradient Methods, opens an external URL in a new window"

(Dec. 2018)

The paper "Learning to Listen, Read, and Follow: Score Following as a Reinforcement Learning Game (PDF, opens an external URL in a new window)" by Matthias Dorfer, opens an external URL in a new window, Florian Henkel, opens an external URL in a new window, and Gerhard Widmer, opens an external URL in a new window received the Best Paper Award and the Best Poster Presentation Award at the 19th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, opens an external URL in a new window.

(Sep. 2018)

CP.JKU researchers Matthias Dorfer, Florian Henkel, Filip Korzeniowski and Richard Vogl win the prize for the best documentation at the Hacking Audio and Music Research (HAMR, opens an external URL in a new window) 2018 Hackathon with the Project "Neural Bubble Beat, opens an external URL in a new window" - a hack for visualizing the activations of neural networks that extract beats, transcribe drums and analyse the harmonic content of music.

(Sep. 2018)

The paper "Towards Multi-Instrument Drum Transcription" by Richard Vogl (cp.jku PhD Student), Gerhard Widmer, and Peter Knees (TU Wien) received the 2nd Best Paper Award at the 21st International Conference on Digital Audio Effects. 

(Sep. 2018)

CP.JKU, opens an external URL in a new window researchers Markus Schedl, opens an external URL in a new window and Christine Bauer, opens an external URL in a new window receive the Best Paper Award for their paper "Introducing Global and Regional Mainstreaminess for Improving Personalized Music Recommendation" at the 15th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing & Multimedia (MoMM 2017), opens an external URL in a new window.

(Dec. 2017)

Results of cp.jku, opens an external URL in a new window algorithms in the MIREX 2017 Audio Music Similarity and Retrieval eXchange, opens an external URL in a new window

• Ranks 1 - 6 in the Onset Detection Task, opens an external URL in a new window
• Rank 1 in the Tempo Estimation Task, opens an external URL in a new window
• Ranks 1–4 in the Beat Tracking Tasks (all datasets)
• Rank 1 on 5 of 7 datasets, otherwise Rank 2 in the Chord Estimation Task, opens an external URL in a new window
• Rank 1 (GiantSteps dataset) and Rank 2 (Isophonics and Robbie Williams) in the Key Detection Task, opens an external URL in a new window
• Rank 1–4 in the Drum Transcription Task, opens an external URL in a new window

(Nov. 2017)

CP.JKU, opens an external URL in a new window guest researcher Jan Hajic jr., opens an external URL in a new window (visiting from ÚFAL, opens an external URL in a new window, Charles University Prague) and his team win the Internet of Emotions Hack Challenge at the Waves Vienna Music Hackday 2017, opens an external URL in a new window with Project "Trumpet" - a hack for reading back tweets with an appropriately (melo)dramatic voice and background music.

(Oct. 2017)

CP.JKU Team (Khaled Koutini, Alina Imenina, Matthias Dorfer, Alexander Gruber, Markus Schedl) achieves the top results, opens an external URL in a new window in the 2017 AcousticBrainz Genre Task, opens an external URL in a new window at the MediaEval Benchmarking Initiative for Multimedia Evaluation.
Here is is a report on how we did it, opens in new window.

(Aug. 2017)

Highly Commended Award, opens an external URL in a new window in the 2017 Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence for Andreas Mladenow, Christine Bauer, opens an external URL in a new window and Christine Strauss for their paper "Crowd logistics", opens an external URL in a new window in the International Journal of Web Information Systems, opens an external URL in a new window.

(Aug. 2017)

Our Basis Function Model, opens an external URL in a new window of expressive music performance is said to have passed a "musical Turing Test" (producing a piano performance whose "humanness" as judged by listeners is undistinguishable from a human musician's [and ranking best, in this respect, among a number of algorithms]) in a recent study (E. Schubert et al., Algorithms Can Mimic Human Piano Performance, opens an external URL in a new window, Journal of New Music Research (Jan. 2017)).
See also our Con Espressione Project, opens an external URL in a new window.

(Jan. 2017)

Our drum robot won the second place in the IEEE Signal Processing Cup, opens an external URL in a new window among 21 competitors.

(Mar. 2017)

cp.jku, opens an external URL in a new window researcher Richard Vogl, opens an external URL in a new window wins the prize for Best Gesture and Sound Combination, opens an external URL in a new window at the Waves Vienna Music Hackday 2016, opens an external URL in a new window (watch the presentation, opens an external URL in a new window and further impressions, opens an external URL in a new window)

(Oct. 2016)

Results of cp.jku, opens an external URL in a new window algorithms in the MIREX 2016 Audio Music Similarity and Retrieval eXchange, opens an external URL in a new window

• Ranks 1 and 2 in the Onset Detection Task, opens an external URL in a new window
• Ranks 1–5 in the Beat Tracking Tasks (MAZ, opens an external URL in a new window, MCK, opens an external URL in a new window, SMC, opens an external URL in a new window datasets)
• Rank 1 in 7 out of 8 datasets in the Downbeat Tracking Tasks, opens an external URL in a new window
• Rank 1 in the Tempo Estimation Task, opens an external URL in a new window
• Rank 1 in the Chord Estimation Task, opens an external URL in a new window

(Aug. 2016)

Best Oral Presentation Award, opens an external URL in a new window for cp.jku Ph.D. student Jan Schlüter, opens an external URL in a new window at the 7th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2016), opens an external URL in a new window, New York City, USA.

(Sep. 2016)

CP Team (Hamid Eghbal-Zadeh, Bernhard Lehner, Matthias Dorfer) achieves Ranks 1 and 2, opens an external URL in a new window (among 49 competing entries) in the Audio Scene Classification Task, opens an external URL in a new window at the DCASE 2016 Acoustic Event Detection and Classification Challenge, opens an external URL in a new window.
Here is a report on how we did it, opens an external URL in a new window.

(July 2016)

Gerhard Widmer, opens an external URL in a new window named "Vorarlberger des Jahres z'Wian 2016, opens an external URL in a new window"

(June 2016)

cp.jku, opens an external URL in a new window graduate Stefan Neumüller wins the Adolf-Adam-Award 2015, opens an external URL in a new window for distinguished master's theses in computer science for his thesis "Active Appearance Models for Face Recognition"

(Dec. 2015)

Best Paper Award, opens in new window for Andreas Arzt, opens an external URL in a new window and Gerhard Widmer, opens an external URL in a new window at the 16th International Society for Music Information Retrieval conference (ISMIR 2015), opens an external URL in a new window for their paper Real-Time Music Tracking Using Multiple Performances as a Reference, opens an external URL in a new window

(Oct. 2015)

Results of cp.jku, opens an external URL in a new window algorithms in the MIREX 2015 Audio Music Similarity and Retrieval eXchange, opens an external URL in a new window

• Ranks 1 and 3–5 in the Onset Detection Task, opens an external URL in a new window
• Ranks 1–10 in the Beat Tracking Task (MCK dataset), opens an external URL in a new window
• Ranks 1–10 in the Beat Tracking Task (SMC dataset), opens an external URL in a new window
• Ranks 1–2 and 4 in the Beat Tracking Task (MAZ dataset), opens an external URL in a new window
• Rank 1 in the Down-beat Tracking Task (Carnatic dataset), opens an external URL in a new window
• Rank 1 in the Down-beat Tracking Task (Turkish dataset), opens an external URL in a new window
• Rank 1 in the Down-beat Tracking Task (Cretan dataset), opens an external URL in a new window
• Ranks 1–2 in the Down-beat Tracking Task (HJDB dataset), opens an external URL in a new window
• Ranks 1–3 in the Tempo Estimation Task, opens an external URL in a new window

(Oct. 2015)

cp.jku, opens an external URL in a new window researcher Richard Vogl, opens an external URL in a new window wins the prizes for Best Bitalino Hack, opens an external URL in a new window and Best Juce Hack, opens an external URL in a new window at the Music Hack Day 2015 in Barcelona, opens an external URL in a new window (watch the presentation of his hack, opens an external URL in a new window)

(June 2015)

Gerhard Widmer, opens an external URL in a new window receives an ERC Advanced Grant, opens an external URL in a new window from the European Research Council (ERC), opens an external URL in a new window: € 2.3 million for the project Con Espressione, opens an external URL in a new window

(May 2015)

Results of cp.jku, opens an external URL in a new window algorithms in the MIREX 2014 Audio Music Similarity and Retrieval eXchange, opens an external URL in a new window

• Ranks 1–4 in the Beat Tracking Task (MCK dataset), opens an external URL in a new window
• Ranks 1–4 in the Beat Tracking Task (SMC dataset), opens an external URL in a new window
• Ranks 1 and 3 in the Beat Tracking Task (MAZ dataset), opens an external URL in a new window
• Ranks 1 and 3 in the Down-beat Tracking Task (Carnatic dataset), opens an external URL in a new window
• Rank 1 in the Down-beat Tracking Task (Turkish dataset), opens an external URL in a new window
• Ranks 1–3 in the Down-beat Tracking Task (Cretan dataset), opens an external URL in a new window
• Ranks 1–5 in the Onset Detection Task, opens an external URL in a new window
• Rank 1 in the Tempo Estimation Task, opens an external URL in a new window
• Rank 1 in the Tag Classification Task (MajorMiner tags), opens an external URL in a new window
• Rank 1 in the Tag Classification Task (Mood tags), opens an external URL in a new window
• Ranks 1–4 in the Audio Music Similarity and Retrieval Task, opens an external URL in a new window
• Rank 1 in the Music Structure Segmentation Task (MIREX dataset), opens an external URL in a new window
• Rank 1 in the Music Structure Segmentation Task (RWC/Quaero dataset), opens an external URL in a new window
• Rank 1 in the Music Structure Segmentation Task (SALAMI dataset), opens an external URL in a new window

(Nov. 2014)

Best Student Paper Award of the 17th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx 2014), opens an external URL in a new window, Erlangen, Germany for the paper "Quad-Based Audio Fingerprinting Robust to Time and Frequency Scaling, opens an external URL in a new window" by Reinhard Sonnleitner and Gerhard Widmer

(Sep. 2014)

Best PAIS Demo Award of the 8th International Conference on the Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems (PAIS 2014), opens an external URL in a new window in conjunction with the 21st European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2014), opens an external URL in a new window, Prague, Czech Republic for the demo "The Piano Music Companion" by Andreas Arzt, Sebastian Böck, Sebastian Flossmann, Harald Frostel, Martin Gasser, Cynthia C.S. Liem, and Gerhard Widmer

(Aug. 2014)

Best Paper Award and Best Demo Award at the AES 53rd International Conference on Semantic Audio, opens an external URL in a new window, London, UK
Best Paper: "Bridging the Audio-Symbolic Gap: The Discovery of Repeated Note Content Directly From Polyphonic Music Audio, opens in new window" by Tom Collins, Sebastian Böck, Florian Krebs, and Gerhard Widmer
Best Demo: "The Complete Classical Music Companion V0.9, opens in new window" by Andreas Arzt, Sebastian Böck, Sebastian Flossmann, Harald Frostel, Martin Gasser, and Gerhard Widmer

(Jan. 2014)

Results of cp.jku, opens an external URL in a new window algorithms in the MIREX 2013 Audio Music Similarity and Retrieval eXchange, opens an external URL in a new window

• Ranks 1–3 in the Beat Tracking Task (MCK dataset), opens an external URL in a new window
• Ranks 1–3 in the Beat Tracking Task (SMC dataset), opens an external URL in a new window
• Rank 2 in the Beat Tracking Task (MAZ dataset), opens an external URL in a new window
• Ranks 1, 2, and 4 in the Onset Detection Task, opens an external URL in a new window
• Rank 5 in the Tempo Estimation Task, opens an external URL in a new window
• Ranks 1 and 2 in the Tag Classification Task (MajorMiner tags), opens an external URL in a new window
• Ranks 1 and 2 in the Tag Classification Task (Mood tags), opens an external URL in a new window
• Ranks 1–3 in the Audio Music Similarity and Retrieval Task, opens an external URL in a new window

(Oct. 2013)

cp.jku, opens an external URL in a new window researcher Peter Knees, opens an external URL in a new window short-listed for the Heinz Zemanek Award, opens an external URL in a new window 2012 for excellent degree dissertations in the field of informatics and related areas.

(July 2013)

Results of cp.jku, opens an external URL in a new window algorithms in the MIREX 2012 Audio Music Similarity and Retrieval eXchange, opens an external URL in a new window

• Ranks 1 and 2 in the Beat Tracking Task (MCK dataset), opens an external URL in a new window
• Ranks 1–3 in the Beat Tracking Task (SMC dataset), opens an external URL in a new window
• Rank 2 in the Beat Tracking Task (MAZ dataset), opens an external URL in a new window
• Ranks 1–4 in the Onset Detection Task, opens an external URL in a new window
• Rank 1 in the Tag Classification Task (MajorMiner tags), opens an external URL in a new window
• Rank 1 in the Tag Classification Task (Mood tags), opens an external URL in a new window
• Ranks 1 and 2 in the Audio Music Similarity and Retrieval Task, opens an external URL in a new window

(Oct. 2012)

cp.jku, opens an external URL in a new window's team "Die Polarkoordinatoren" wins the 6th annual Johannes Kepler University Ice Stock Sport Competition (also known as Bavarian Curling)
>> The winning team, opens a file (from left to right: Sebastian Böck, Andreas Arzt, Florian Krebs, Harald Frostel)

(Feb. 2012)

The Award of Excellence 2011 of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research (BMWF, opens an external URL in a new window) goes to cp.jku, opens an external URL in a new window researcher Klaus Seyerlehner, opens an external URL in a new window for his excellent PhD thesis, opens an external URL in a new window
>> Media coverage, opens an external URL in a new window

(Dec. 2011)

cp.jku, opens an external URL in a new window researcher Filip Korzeniowski, opens an external URL in a new window named one of the four finalists of the Adolf-Adam-Award 2011, opens an external URL in a new window for distinguished master's theses in computer science

(Dec. 2011)

Our arts project sound/tracks, opens an external URL in a new window is exhibited at the Media Arts Festival, opens an external URL in a new window at Miyazaki Art Center, opens an external URL in a new window in Miyazaki, Japan from December 23rd, 2011 – January 9th, 2012.

(Dec. 2011)

Results from the MIREX 2011 Audio Music Similarity and Retrieval eXchange, opens an external URL in a new window

• Rank 1 on the Audio Beat Tracking Task, opens an external URL in a new window goes to Sebastian Böck (SB3)
• Rank 1 on the Audio Onset Detection Task, opens an external URL in a new window goes to Sebastian Böck (SB2)
• Rank 1 on the Audio Music Similarity and Retrieval Task, opens an external URL in a new window goes to Klaus Seyerlehner, Markus Schedl, Tim Pohle, and Peter Knees (SSPK2)
• Rank 1 on the Audio Mood Tag Classification Task, opens an external URL in a new window goes to Klaus Seyerlehner, Markus Schedl, Peter Knees, and Reinhard Sonnleitner (SSKS1)

(Oct. 2011)

cp.jku, opens an external URL in a new window researcher Markus Schedl, opens an external URL in a new window named Best Reviewer, opens an external URL in a new window of the 6th IEEE International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM 2011), opens an external URL in a new window

(Aug. 2011)

Our expressive music performance rendering system YQX 2.0 feat. the Basis Mixer, opens an external URL in a new window wins 2 awards at the 10th Contest for Performance Rendering Systems (SMC-Rencon, opens an external URL in a new window), Padova, Italy, July 2011:

• SMC Rencon Award, opens in new window
• Rencon Technical Award, opens in new window

(July 2011)

Our arts project sound/tracks, opens an external URL in a new window is selected as Jury Recommended Work, opens an external URL in a new window at the 14th Japan Media Arts Festival, opens an external URL in a new window and exhibited at the National Art Center, Tokyo.

(Dec. 2010)

Results from the MIREX 2010 Audio Music Similarity and Retrieval eXchange, opens an external URL in a new window

In the Audio Music Similarity and Retrieval Task, opens an external URL in a new window, the three best-ranking algorithms were all submitted by cp.jku teams

• Rank 1: Klaus Seyerlehner, Markus Schedl, Tim Pohle, Peter Knees (SSPK2)
• Rank 2: Tim Pohle, Klaus Seyerlehner, Dominik Schnitzer (PSS1)
• Rank 3: Tim Pohle, Dominik Schnitzer (PS1)

The algorithm SSPK1 (Klaus Seyerlehner, Markus Schedl, Tim Pohle, Peter Knees) achieved

• Rank 1 in the Audio Latin Genre Classification Task, opens an external URL in a new window
• Rank 1 in the Audio Mixed Popular Genre Classification Task, opens an external URL in a new window
• Rank 2 in the Audio Music Mood Classification Task, opens an external URL in a new window
• Rank 2 in the Audio Classical Composer Identification Task, opens an external URL in a new window

(Aug. 2010)

Computational Music Similarity Measure by Tim Pohle, opens an external URL in a new window and Dominik Schnitzer, opens an external URL in a new window ranks first at MIREX 2009 Audio Music Similarity and Retrieval eXchange, opens an external URL in a new window
>> Graphical summary of result, opens an external URL in a new window (PS = Pohle & Schnitzer)

(Nov. 2009)

Gerhard Widmer, opens an external URL in a new window receives the Austrian Wittgenstein-Preis 2009
The Wittgenstein Prize is Austria's most prestigious research award and comes with a five-year grant of EUR 1,4 million.
>> Related media coverage, opens an external URL in a new window

(Oct. 2009)

cp.jku's expressive performance rendering system YQX, opens an external URL in a new window wins all three awards at the 7th Contest for Performance Rendering Systems (Rencon '08, opens an external URL in a new window), in Sapporo, Japan:

• Rencon Award, opens in new window
• Rencon Technical Award, opens in new window
• Rencon Murao Award, opens in new window

>> Listen to the results, opens an external URL in a new window
>> Related media coverage, opens an external URL in a new window

(Sept. 2008)

Gerhard Widmer, opens an external URL in a new window is elected into the "Junge Kurie", opens an external URL in a new window of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, opens an external URL in a new window

(May 2008)

Best Student Paper Award at the 6th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM 2007) for the Paper "One-Touch Access to Music on Mobile Devices, opens an external URL in a new window" by D. Schnitzer, T. Pohle, P. Knees, and G. Widmer
>> Photo of the award ceremony, opens an external URL in a new window

(Dec. 2007)

Computational Music Similarity Measure by Tim Pohle, opens an external URL in a new window and Dominik Schnitzer, opens an external URL in a new window ranks first at MIREX 2007 Audio Music Similarity and Retrieval eXchange, opens an external URL in a new window

(Sept. 2007)

Runner-up for Best Paper Award at the ACM Multimedia 2006 for the Paper "An Innovative Three-Dimensional User Interface for Exploring Music Collections Enriched with Meta-Information from the Web, opens an external URL in a new window" by P. Knees, M. Schedl, T. Pohle, and G. Widmer

(Oct. 2006)

Gerhard Widmer, opens an external URL in a new window is named an ECCAI Fellow, opens an external URL in a new window by the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI), opens an external URL in a new window

(Aug. 2006)

Best Poster Award at the International Conference for Music Information Retrieval 2005 (ISMIR), opens an external URL in a new window for the paper "MATCH: A Music Alignment Tool Chest, opens an external URL in a new window" by S. Dixon and G. Widmer

(Sept. 2005)