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** The Music and Science list is managed by the Institute of Musical Research (www.music.sas.ac.uk) as a bulletin board and discussion forum for researchers working at the shared boundaries of science and music. ** MESSAGE FOLLOWS: Dear all, At C4DM, on Wednesday 4th June, Ye Wang from the National University of Singapore will present a seminar on "Towards Mobile Music Edutainment: A Multimedia Approach". The seminar will take place in room 105 in the Electronic Engineering Department, Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS. Directions of how to get to Queen Mary are available at http://www.elec.qmul.ac.uk/research/seminars/ as are details of future seminars. The room is under access control, so people from outside QM will need to contact C4DM to get in - the lab phone number is +44 (0)20 7882 7986 and if I'm not available, anyone else in the lab should be able to help. If you are coming from outside Queen Mary's, please let me know, so I can make sure no-ones stuck outside the doors... All are welcome to attend. If you wish to be added to / removed from our mailing list, please send me an email and I'll be happy to do so. Next seminar: ------------------- 16:00 Wednesday 4th June 2008 Towards Mobile Music Edutainment: A Multimedia Approach Ye Wang National University of Singapore Abstract I would like to give first a brief introduction to School of Computing, National University of Singapore. This will be followed by an overview of research activities in my group - Towards Mobile Music Edutainment: A Multimedia Approach. Modern mobile systems from mobile phones to laptops are becoming increasingly more powerful in terms of computation, memory and connectivity. Such devices typically have a very high degree of integration of multimedia components (microphone, speaker, camera, accelerometer, etc.) and functionalities (MP3 player, video caption and playback, game, etc.). We seek to leverage on such capabilities of mobile devices to facilitate music education and entertainment. I will give an overview of two research projects: 1) multimedia-based music content analysis for computer-assisted musical instrument tutoring; 2) perception-aware low-power media processing for mobile devices. Biodata: Ye Wang is an assistant professor in the department of computer science at National University of Singapore since 2002. He received his B.S from Southern China University of Technology in 1983, his Diplom-Ingenieur (M.S.) from Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany in 1993, and his Ph.D. from Tampere University of Technology, Finland in January 2002. He has worked as a research engineer and senior research engineer at Nokia Research Center in Tampere, Finland in 1994 – 2002. More information can be found at: http:// www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~wangye/. If you'd like to present a seminar at C4DM, please get in touch, and we'll see what we can do. Steve Welburn -- Centre for Digital Music (C4DM) Electronic Engineering Department Queen Mary, University of London [log in to unmask] Tel: +44 (0)20 7882 7986 Fax: +44 (0)20 7882 7997 C4DM Web-site : http://www.elec.qmul.ac.uk/digitalmusic/index.html