Speakers

XavierSerra
Xavier Serra
Affiliation: Music Technology Group
Dept. of Information and Communication Technologies & Audiovisual Institute,
Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain
xavier.serra [At] upf.edu
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Xavier Serra (Barcelona, 1959) is the head of the Music Technology Group of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. After a multidisciplinary academic education he obtained a PhD in Computer Music from Stanford University in 1989 with a dissertation on the spectral processing of musical sounds that is considered a key reference in the field. His research interests cover the understanding, modeling and generation of musical signals by computational means, with a balance between basic and applied research and approaches from both scientific/technological and humanistic/artistic disciplines. Dr. Serra is very active in promoting initiatives in the field of Sound and Music Computing at the local and international levels, being editor and reviewer of a number of journals, conferences and research programs of the European Commission, and also giving lectures on current and future challenges of the field. He is the principal investigator of more than 15 major research projects funded by public and private institutions, the author of 31 patents and of more than 50 research publications.

Topics: Audio Analysis and Models, Sound and Music Description for Search and Retrieval

malcolm
Malcolm Slaney
Affiliation: Yahoo! Research Silicon Valley, California, U.S.A.
malcolm [AT] ieee.org
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Malcolm joined Yahoo! Research in 2005. He received his PhD from Purdue University for his work on computer imaging. He is interested in all manners of perception, signal processing, and multimedia analysis and modification. For the last 15 years he has organized the Stanford CCRMA Hearing Seminar. Before joining Yahoo he was a researcher at IBM's Almaden Research Center working on multimedia analysis and user models. He has also been employed by Interval Research, Apple's Advanced Technology Group, Schlumberger's Palo Alto Research Laboratory, and Bell Labs. He is the coauthor of the book "Principles of Computerized Tomographic Imaging," which was recently republished by SIAM as a "Classics in Applied Mathematics". He is coeditor of the book "Computational Models of Auditory Function."

Topics: Auditory Perception, Audio Similarity Measures, Retrieval with Large-scale Tools

JMakhoul
John Makhoul
(by interactive video conf)
Affiliation: BBN Technologies,
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA



Born on 19 September 1942 in Deirmimas, Lebanon, John Makhoul obtained his B.E. degree (1964) from the American University of Beirut, his M.Sc. degree (1965) from The Ohio State University, and his Ph.D. degree (1970) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), all in electrical engineering. In 1970, he joined Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc. (BBN Technologies) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he is currently chief scientist. His research interests include various aspects of speech processing (speech coding, speech recognition, speaker recognition, speech synthesis, speech enhancement, and voice modification), human-machine interaction using voice (including speech-to-speech translation for limited applications), multilingual optical character recognition, and artificial neural networks. Dr. Makhoul received the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) Senior Award (1978), the IEEE SPS Technical Achievement Award (1982), the IEEE SPS Society Award (1988), and the IEEE Third Millennium Medal (2000). On 21 April 2009, he received 2009 IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award at the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing in Taipei, Taiwan for pioneering contributions to speech modeling.

Topics: Speech and Language Technologies for Search and Retrieval (by Interactive Video Conference)