[mirtoolboxnews] Fwd: [MUSIC-IR] Utrecht Summer School in Music Information Retrieval (USMIR) second announcement

From: Olivier Lartillot <olartillot@xxxxxxxxx>
To: mirtoolboxnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 11:53:34 +0200
There will be a MIRtoolbox tutorial and workshop during Utrecht Summer School 
in Music Information Retrieval (USMIR).

Hope to see you there.

Olivier

Välitetty viesti alkaa:

> Lähettäjä: Frans Wiering <fransw@xxxxxxxx>
> Päiväys: 7. huhtikuuta 2010 8.22.15 UTC+2.00
> Vastaanottaja: music-ir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Aihe: [MUSIC-IR] Utrecht Summer School in Music Information Retrieval (USMIR) 
> second announcement
> 
> Utrecht Summer School in Music Information Retrieval (USMIR)
> Dates: 2-6 August 2010
> Info: http://www.utrechtsummerschool.nl/index.php?type=courses&code=H5
> Contact: usmir2010@xxxxxxxx
> 
> Deadline for application: 1 May 2010.
> 
> Organized in conjunction with ISMIR 2010 in Utrecht, the Utrecht Summer
> School in Music Information Retrieval (USMIR) will provide one week of
> intensive training in state-of-the-art topics in Music Information
> Retrieval (MIR). Particular attention will be given to the importance of
> human understanding and experience of music in MIR research.
> 
> USMIR is an interdisciplinary summer school, open for students from the
> disciplines of computer science, library and information science,
> engineering, musicology, cognitive science and others. The target level
> includes master's students in their final year, newly started PhD
> students and researchers.
> 
> USMIR is jointly organized by the Department of Information and
> Computing Sciences (ICS) of Utrecht University and the Institute of
> Psychoacoustics and Electronic Music (IPEM), Department of Musicology of
> Ghent University, and is part of the Utrecht Summer School programme.
> 
> USMIR 2-6 August 2010  - Program
> 
> The wide ranges of activities at USMIR include lectures, workshops and 
> tutorials and student poster presentations. Student’s training at USMIR will 
> be enriched by the opportunity to meet and work together with Music 
> Information Retrieval experts in different subdomains of MIR.  Teachers of 
> courses and workshops are among others Dr. Frans Wiering (ICS, Utrecht 
> University), Peter van Kranenburg (ICS, Utrecht University), Dr. Olivier 
> Lartillot (University of Jyväskylä), Prof. ir. Dr. Leon van Noorden (IPEM, 
> Ghent University), Dr. Maarten Grachten (IPEM, Ghent University), Dr. 
> Micheline Lesaffre (IPEM, Ghent University).
> 
> Keynote lecture by J. Stephen Downie
> A highlight of the Summer School will be a keynote lecture by J. Stephen 
> Downie, Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Library and Information 
> Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).  He is Director 
> of the International Music Information Retrieval Systems Evaluation 
> Laboratory (IMIRSEL). He is Principal Investigator on the Networked 
> Environment for Music Analysis (NEMA) project. He has been very active in the 
> establishment of the Music Information Retrieval (MIR) community through his 
> ongoing work with the International Society for Music Information Retrieval 
> (ISMIR) conferences and now serves as ISMIR's President.
> 
> Lectures presented at USMIR will provide state-of –the-art context 
> information and will address important challenges for the future of Music 
> Information retrieval. Topics that will be covered include the power of 
> user-oriented approaches, gesture-based MIR and challenges in cross-cultural 
> MIR research.
> 
> Workshops and tutorials will provide information on how specific problems can 
> be solved.  The “music analysis from audio” workshop, for example, proposes 
> an overview of the MIRtoolbox, a Matlab toolbox for musical feature design, 
> extraction and analysis from audio.
> 
> Poster sessions
> In addition to the intensive program, the schedule also provides time for 
> student poster presentations. These presentations provide students with an 
> opportunity to discuss and receive feedback on their own research 
> proposals/project.
> 
> For more information and registration, see
> http://www.utrechtsummerschool.nl/index.php?type=courses&code=H5
> Contact: usmir2010@xxxxxxxx
> 
> -- 
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> dr. Frans Wiering
> e-mail: frans.wiering@xxxxxxxx
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> Department of Information and Computing Sciences (ICS)
> Utrecht University
> Padualaan 14, A 215
> P.O. Box 80.089
> NL-3508 TB Utrecht
> tel: +31-30-2536335
> fax: +31-30-2532804
> www: http://www.cs.uu.nl/staff/fransw.html
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