PhD thesis
Alonso, P. (2024) Deep Audio Representation Learning for Music Using Weak Supervision. Directors: Dmitry Bogdanov & Xavier Serra.
Tamer, N.C. (2024) Violin Performance Analysis using Weak Supervision. Director: Xavier Serra
Zinemanas, P. (2023) Interpretable Deep-learning Models for Sound Event Detection and Classification. Directors: Xavier Serra & Frederic Font. [Video defence]
Ramires, A. (2023) Automatic Characterization and Generation of Music Loops and Instrument Samples for Electronic Music Production. Directors: Xavier Serra & Frederic Font. [Video defence]
Porcaro, L. (2022) Assessing the Impact of Music Recommendation Diversity on Listeners. Directors: Emilia Gómez & Carlos Castillo. [Video defence]
Gómez Cañon, J.S. (2022) Human-centered machine learning for music emotion recognition. Directors: Emilia Gómez, Perfecto Herrera & Estefanía Cano
Blaauw, M. (2022) Modeling Timbre for Neural Singing Synthesis: Methods for Data-Efficient, Reduced Effort Voice Creation, and Fast and Stable Inference. Directors: Emilia Gómez & Jordi Bonada. [Video defence]
Tovstogan, P. (2022) Exploration of Music Collections with Audio Embeddings. Directors: Xavier Serra & Dmitry Bogdanov. [Video defence]
Won, M. (2022) Representation Learning for Music Classification and Retrieval: Bridging the Gap between Natural Language and Music Semantics. Directors: Xavier Serra & Horacio Saggion [Video defence]
Cuesta, H. (2022) Data-driven Pitch Content Description of Choral Singing Recordings. Director: Emilia Gómez. [Video defence]
Muneratti, F. (2022) A machine learning approach to computer modeling of musical expression for performance learning and practice. Director: Rafael Ramírez.
Yesiler, F. (2022) Data-driven Musical Version Identification: Accuracy, Scalability, and Bias Perspectives. Directors: Emilia Gómez and Joan Serrà. [Video defence]
Fonseca, E. (2021) Training Sound Event Classifiers Using Different Types of Supervision. Directors: Xavier Serra & Frederic Font. [Video defence]
Ferraro, A. (2021) Music Recommender Systems: Taking Into Account The Artists' Perspective. Director: Xavier Serra. [Video defence]
Blanco, A.D. (2021) Educational Technologies and the Impact of Feedback on Violin Learning. A Behavioral and Electrophysiological Account. Director: Rafael Ramírez. [Video defence]
Chandna, P. (2021) Neural Networks for Singing Voice Extraction in Monaural Polyphonic Music Signals. Director: Emilia Gómez. [Video defence]
Sayis, B. (2021) Computational Modeling of User Activity in Full-Body Interaction Environments for ASC Children: Multimodal Analysis of Social Interaction Behaviors through Psychophysiology, System Activity, Video Coding, Questionnaires, and Body Cues. Directors: Narcís Parés & Rafael Ramírez
Meléndez, B. (2021) Relative Music Loudness Estimation In TV Broadcast Audio Using Deep Learning. Directors: Emilia Gómez & Emilio Molina. [Video defence]
Favory, X. (2021) Improving Sound Retrieval in Large Collaborative Collections. Directors: Xavier Serra & Frederic Font. [Video defence]
Cabrera Dalmazzo, D. (2020) Machine Learning and Deep Neural Networks Approach to Modelling Musical Gestures. Director: Rafael Ramírez.[Video defence]
Pérez, A. (2020) Parametric Analysis of Ambisonic Audio: Contributions to methods, applications and data generation. Directors: Emilia Gómez & Adán Garriga. [Video defence]
Slizovskaia, O. (2020) Audio-visual deep learning methods for musical instrument classification and separation. Directors: Emilia Gómez & Gloria Haro. [Video defence]
Pons, J. (2019). Deep Neural Networks for Music and Audio Tagging. Director: Xavier Serra.
Herrera, P. (2018). MIRages: an account of music audio extractors, semantic description and context-awareness, in the three ages of MIR. Directors: Xavier Serra & Emilia Gómez. [Defence slides] [Video defence]
Gong, R. (2018). Automatic Assessment of Singing Voice Pronunciation: A Case Study with Jingju Music. Director: Xavier Serra. [Additional material]
Nuanáin, C. Ó. (2018). Connecting Time and Timbre: Computational Methods for Generative Rhythmic Loops in Symbolic and Signal Domains. Directors: Sergi Jordà & Perfecto Herrera. [Presentation, experiments]
Faraldo, Á. (2018). Tonality Estimation in Electronic Dance Music: A Computational and Musically Informed Examination. Director: Sergi Jordà.
Miron, M. (2018). Source Separation Methods for Orchestral Music: Timbre-Informed and Score-Informed Strategies. Directors: Emilia Gómez & Jordi Janer.
Caro Repetto, R. (2018). The musical dimension of Chinese traditional theatre: An analysis from computer aided musicology. Directors: Manel Ollé & Xavier Serra. [Additional material] [Video defence]
Gómez-Marín, D. (2018). Similarity and Style in Electronic Dance Music Drum Rhythms. Director: Sergi Jordà.
Oramas, S. (2017). Knowledge Extraction and Representation Learning for Music Recommendation and Classification. Director: Xavier Serra. [Video defence]
Bosch, J. (2017). From Heuristics-Based to Data-Driven Audio Melody Extraction. Director: Emilia Gómez.
Dzhambazov, G. (2017). Knowledge-based Probabilistic Modeling for Tracking Lyrics in Music Audio Signals. Director: Xavier Serra. [Additional material] [Video defence]
Sarasúa, Á. (2017). Musical Interaction Based on the Conductor Metaphor. Directors: Emilia Gómez & Enric Guaus.
Gulati, S. (2016). Computational Approaches for Melodic Description in Indian Art Music Corpora. Director: Xavier Serra. [Additional material] [Video defence]
Koduri, G. K. (2016). Towards a multimodal knowledge base for Indian art music: A case study with melodic intonation. Director: Xavier Serra. [Additional material] [Video defence]
Vamvakousis, Z. (2016). Digital Musical Instruments for People with Physical Disabilities. Director: Rafael Ramírez.
Sentürk, S. (2016). Computational Analysis of Audio Recordings and Music Scores for the Description and Discovery of Ottoman-Turkish Makam Music. Director: Xavier Serra. [Additional material] [Video defence]
Srinivasamurthy, A. (2016). A Data-driven Bayesian Approach to Automatic Rhythm Analysis of Indian Art Music. Director: Xavier Serra. [Additional material] [Video defence]
Giraldo, S. (2016). Computational Modelling of Expressive Music Performance in Jazz Guitar: A Machine Learning Approach. Director: Rafael Ramírez.
Coleman, G. (2016). Descriptor Control of Sound Transformations and Mosaicing Synthesis. Directors: Jordi Bonada & Xavier Serra.
Umbert, M. (2016). Expression Control of Singing Voice Synthesis: Modeling Pitch and Dynamics with Unit Selection and Statistical Approaches. Directors: Jordi Bonada & Xavier Serra.
Papiotis, P. (2016). A computational approach to studying interdependence in string quartet performance. Directors: Esteban Maestre & Xavier Serra.
Gallardo, D. (2015). Expanding tangible tabletop interfaces beyond the display. Director: Sergi Jordà.
Roma, G. (2015). Algorithms and representations for supporting online music creation with large-scale audio databases. Director: Xavier Serra.
Font, F. (2015). Tag Recommendation using Folksonomy Information for Online Sound Sharing Platforms. Director: Xavier Serra & Joan Serrà.
Julià, C. F. (2015). Making Tabletops Useful with Applications, Frameworks and Multi-Tasking. Director: Sergi Jordà.
Kersten, S. (2015). Statistical modelling and resynthesis of environmental texture sounds. Director: Xavier Serra & Hendrik Purwins.
Marchini, M. (2014). Analysis of Ensemble Expressive Performance in String Quartets: a Statistical and Machine Learning Approach. Director: Esteban Maestre & Rafael Ramírez.
Salselas, I. (2013). Exploring interactions between music and language during the early development of music cognition. A computational modelling approach. Director: Xavier Serra.
Martorell, A. (2013). Modelling tonal context dynamics by temporal multi-scale analysis. Director: Emilia Gómez.
Özaslan, T. (2013). Computational Analysis of Expressivity in Classical Guitar Performances. Directors: Josep Lluís Arcos & Xavier Serra.
Haro, G. G. (2013). Statistical Distribution of Common Audio Features. Director: Xavier Serra.
Marxer, R. (2013). Audio Source Separation for Music in Low-latency and High-latency Scenarios. Directors: Xavier Serra & Jordi Janer.
Zapata, J. R. (2013). Comparative evaluation and combination of automatic rhythm description systems. Director: Emilia Gómez.
Bogdanov, D. (2013). From music similarity to music recommendation: Computational approaches based on audio features and metadata. Director: Xavier Serra.
Salamon, J. (2013). Melody Extraction from Polyphonic Music Signals. Directors: Emilia Gómez & Xavier Serra.
Musevic, S. (2013). Non-Stationary Sinusoidal Analysis. Directors: Xavier Serra & Jordi Bonada.
Sordo, M. (2012). Semantic Annotation of Music Collections: A Computational Approach. Directors: Xavier Serra & Oscar Celma.
Fuhrmann, F. (2012). Automatic musical instrument recognition from polyphonic music audio signals. Director: Xavier Serra.
Laurier, C. (2011). Automatic Classification of Musical Mood by Content-Based Analysis. Director: Xavier Serra.
Serrà, J. (2011). Identification of versions of the same musical composition by processing audio descriptions. Director: Xavier Serra.
Hazan, A. (2010). Musical Expectation Modelling from Audio: a causal mid-level approach to predictive representation and learning of spectro-temporal events. Director: Xavier Serra.
Guaus, E. (2009). Audio content processing for automatic music genre classification: descriptors, databases, and classifiers. Director: Xavier Serra.
Pérez, A. (2009). Enhancing Spectral Synthesis Techniques with Performance Gestures using the Violin as a Case Study. Director: Xavier Serra.
Maestre, E. (2009). Modeling instrumental gestures: an analysis/synthesis framework for violin bowing. Director: Xavier Serra.
Celma, Ò. (2008). Music Recommendation and Discovery in the Long Tail. Director: Xavier Serra.
Janer, J. (2008). Singing-driven Interfaces for Sound Synthesizers. Director: Xavier Serra.
Bonada, J. (2008). Voice Processing and Synthesis by Performance Sampling and Spectral Models. Director: Xavier Serra.
Cano, P. (2007). Content-Based Audio Search from Fingerprinting to Semantic Audio Retrieval. Director: Xavier Serra.
Streich, S. (2007). Music Complexity a multi-faceted description of audio content. Director: Xavier Serra.
Loscos, A. (2007). Spectral Processing Of The Singing Voice. Director: Xavier Serra.
Ong, B. (2007). Structural Analysis and Segmentation of Music Signals. Director: Xavier Serra.
Barbosa, A. (2006). Computer-Supported Cooperative Work for Music Applications. Directors: Xavier Serra & Sergi Jordà.
Grachten, M. (2006). Expressivity-aware Tempo Transformations of Music Performances Using Case Based Reasoning. Director: Josep Lluís Arcos.
Gómez, E. (2006). Tonal Description of Music Audio Signals. Director: Xavier Serra.
Gouyon, F. (2005). A computational approach to rhythm description --- Audio features for the computation of rhythm periodicity functions and their use in tempo induction and music content processing. Directors: Gerhard Widmer & Xavier Serra.
Jordà, S. (2005). Digital Lutherie Crafting musical computers for new musics' performance and improvisation. Director: Xavier Serra.
Amatriain, X. (2005). An Object-Oriented Metamodel for Digital Signal Processing with a focus on Audio and Music. Director: Xavier Serra.