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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, Next Friday 5 March, at 2pm, Prof Gaël Richard will present the seminar entitled Presentation of Télécom-ParisTech / Automatic separation and transcription of the main melody from polyphonic music signals. 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/newsevents/c4dm-seminars.php 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 5528 and if I'm not available, anyone else in the lab should be able to help. If you are coming from outside Queen Mary, please let me know, so I can make sure no-one's stuck outside the doors. All are welcome to attend. For those unable to do so, a video recording of the seminar will be streamed live and also made available online after a few days. Please see the above website for details. 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 Friday's seminar (5 March, 2pm): Title: Presentation of Télécom-ParisTech / Automatic separation and transcription of the main melody from polyphonic music signals Speaker: Gaël Richard Télécom ParisTech, Paris, France Abstract: In this talk I will give a brief presentation of Télécom ParisTech (formerly known as ENST), the Audio research group, and will address its main research topics. During the second part of the talk, I will discuss the problem of "monaural main instrument / accompaniment separation" along with the transcription of the melody played by the main instrument, within a unified framework. I will in particular describe the signal model used for leading instrument source separation which extends previous works on the domain with explicit "MIR" knowledge. The proposed signal spectrum model explicitly uses pitches (or fundamental frequencies) both to extract the main instrument from the others and to transcribe the pitch sequence played by that instrument. Results in source separation and melody transcription will be given. Bio: Gaël Richard received the State Engineering degree from TELECOM ParisTech (formerly ENST), Paris, France, in 1990, the PhD degree from LIMSI-CNRS, University of Paris-XI, in 1994 in speech synthesis and the Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches degree from the University of Paris XI in September 2001. After his PhD, he spent two years at the CAIP Center, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, in the speech processing group of Prof. J. Flanagan, where he explored innovative approaches for speech production. Between 1997 and 2001, he successively worked for Matra Nortel Communications, Bois d'Arcy, France, and for Philips Consumer Comunications, Montrouge, France. In particular, he was the project manager of several large-scale European projects in the field of audio and multimodal signal processing. In September 2001, he joined the Department of Signal and Image Processing of TELECOM ParisTech, where he is now full Professor in audio signal processing and Head of the Audio, Acoustics and Waves research group. He is co-author of over 80 papers, inventor in a number of patents and one of the experts of the European commission in the field of speech and audio signal processing. Prof. Richard is a senior member of IEEE and Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing. Tim Murray Browne -- Centre for Digital Music (C4DM) Electronic Engineering Department Queen Mary, University of London [log in to unmask] Tel: +44 (0)20 7882 5528 Fax: +44 (0)20 7882 7997 C4DM Web-site : http://www.elec.qmul.ac.uk/digitalmusic/index.html