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Oral Sessions

Oral Session 1: Melody and Harmony.
Chair: Rafael Ramirez

• [OS1-1] Taemin Cho, Ron Weiss and Juan Pablo Bello. Exploring Common Variations in State of the Art Chord Recognition Systems.
• [OS1-2] Matthias Mauch, Hiromasa Fujihara and Masataka Goto. Lyrics-to-Audio Alignment and Phrase-Level Segmentation Using Incomplete Internet-Style Chord Annotations.
• [OS1-3] Jens Wissmann, Tillman Weyde and Darrell Conklin. Chord Sequence Patterns in OWL.
• [OS1-4] Tae Hun Kim, Satoru Fukayama, Takuya Nishimoto and Shigeki Sagayama. Performance Rendering for Polyphonic Piano Music with a Combination of Probabilistic Models for Melody and Harmony.

Oral Session 2: Timbre and Melody.
Chair: Perfecto Herrera

• [OS2-1] Carolina Blasco-Yepes and Blas Payri. The Influence of Reed Making on the Performance and Sound Quality of the Oboe.
• [OS2-2] Panagiotis Papiotis and Georgios Papaioannou. Kettle: A Real-Time Model for Orchestral Timpani.
• [OS2-3] Dan Stowell and Mark D. Plumbley. Timbre Remapping through a Regression-Tree Technique.
• [OS2-4] Mariana E. Benassi-Werke, Marcelo Queiroz, Nayana G. Germano and Maria Gabriela M. Oliveira. Melodic Memory and its Dependence on Familiarity and Difficulty.

Oral Session 3: Multimodality.
Chair: Federico Avanzini

• [OS3-1] Baptiste Caramiaux, Frédéric Bevilacqua and Norbert Schnell. Analysing Gesture and Sound Similarities with a HMM-based Divergence Measure.
• [OS3-3] Stefania Serafin, Luca Turchet and Rolf Nordahl. Examining the Role of Context in the Recognition of Walking Sounds.
• [OS3-4] Benjamin Schroeder, Marc Ainger and Richard Parent. An Audiovisual Workspace for Physical Models.

Oral Session 4: Sound modeling and processing.
Chair: Giovanni de Poli

• [OS4-1] Monika Dörfler, Arthur Flexer, Gino Velasco and Volkmar Klien. Sparse Regression in Time-Frequency Representations of Complex Audio.
• [OS4-2] Sašo Muševič and Jordi Bonada. Comparison of Non-Stationary Sinusoid Estimation Methods using Reassignment and Derivatives.
• [OS4-3] Jari Kleimola, Victor Lazzarini, Joseph Timoney and Vesa Välimäki. Phaseshaping Oscillator Algorithms for Musical Sound Synthesis.

Oral Session 5: Music classification and annotation.
Chair: Bryan Pardo

• [OS5-1] Jesus L. Alvaro and Beatriz Barros. MusicJSON: A Representation for the Computer Music Cloud.
• [OS5-2] Bernhard Niedermayer and Gerhard Widmer. Strategies towards the Automatic Annotation of Classical Piano Music.
• [OS5-3] Klaus Seyerlehner, Gerhard Widmer, Markus Schedl and Peter Knees. Automatic Music Tag Classification based on Block-Level Features.
• [OS5-4] Gonçalo Marques, Miguel Lopes, Mohamed Sordo, Thibault Langlois and Fabien Gouyon. Additional Evidence that Common Low-Level Audio Features are not Representative of Music Genres.

Oral Session 6: Interaction.
Chair: Dominique Fober

• [OS6-1] Alain Renaud. Dynamic Cues for Network Music Interactions.
• [OS6-2] Robin Laney, Chris Dobbyn, Anna Xambó, Mattia Schirosa, Dorothy Miell, Karen Littleton and Sheep Dalton. Issues and Techniques for Collaborative Music Making on Multi-Touch Surfaces.
• [OS6-3] Andrea Franceschini. Towards A Practical Approach to Music Theory on the Reactable.
• [OS6-4] Sylvain Le Groux and Paul Verschure. Towards Adaptive Music Generation by Reinforcement Learning of Musical Tension.

Oral Session 7: Rhythm and percussion.
Chair: Fabien Gouyon

• [OS7-1] Filipe Cunha Monteiro Lopes. Õdaiko - A Real Time Score Generator Based on Rhythm.
• [OS7-2] Gilberto Bernardes, Carlos Guedes and Bruce Pennycook. Style Emulation of Drum Patterns by Means of Evolutionary Methods and Statistical Analysis.
• [OS7-3] Andreas Arzt and Gerhard Widmer. Simple Tempo Models for Real-time Music Tracking.
• [OS7-4] Henning Pohl and Aristotelis Hadjakos. Dance Pattern Recognition using Dynamic Time Warping.

Oral Session 8: Voice and singing.
Chair: Stefania Serafin

• [OS8-1] Maarten Grachten, Michiel Demey, Dirk Moelants and Marc Leman. Analysis and Automatic Annotation of Singer’s Postures during Concert and Rehearsal.
• [OS8-2] Tristan Bowles and Sandra Pauletto. Emotions in the Voice: Humanising a Robotic Voice.
• [OS8-3] Adam Kestian and Tamara Smyth. Real-Time Estimation of the Vocal Tract Shape for Musical Control