Archiv des Autors: Igor Vatolkin

SIGMA #61

The 61. SIGMA will take place on 8.10.2026, at 14:00 (same place + online). Please find the updated program below. Due to very sad news that Prof. Günter Rudolph has passed away a few days ago, we have decided to … Weiterlesen →

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Masters’ Thesis on Beat Tracking

Polina Kozarovytska Beat Tracking for Genre-Related Datasets Obtained by Clustering (direct link to PDF) Abstract Beat tracking is a fundamental task in music information retrieval. Its performance is often influenced by genre characteristics, as different musical styles exhibit distinct rhythmic … Weiterlesen →

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Paper Presented at ICASSP 2026

The following paper was presented this year at ICASSP 2026 in Barcelona: Justin Dettmer, Annelot Bosman, Igor Vatolkin, Holger Hoos: Audio Classification Models are Vulnerable to Filter Perturbations  Abstract: Deep learning models are known to suffer from a lack of … Weiterlesen →

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PhD Position at Harz University of Applied Sciences

PhD: EEG studies on musical harmony perception An acoustic stimulus, e.g., a musical harmony, is transformed in a highly nonlinear way in the ear and brain during the hearing process. The periodicity of complex chords can be detected in the … Weiterlesen →

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Teaching Courses in Winter Term 2025/2026

In this winter term, there will be two lectures related to music informatics: RWTH Aachen: Artificial Intelligence in Music TU Dortmund: Music Data Analysis

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Paper on LLM Guided Music Evolution is Part of the AIMC 2025

Fabian Ostermann, Jonas Kramer, Günter Rudolph: Using Large Language Models as Fitness Functions in Evolutionary Algorithms for Music Generation. Proceedings of the Conference on AI Music Creativity (AIMC), 2025 Abstract: Using evolutionary algorithms for music generation is a well-researched approach. … Weiterlesen →

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SIGMA #60

The program of the 60th SIGMA meeting on 10.07.2025, 14:00-16:10, which takes place at the RWTH Aachen, Chair for Artificial Intelligence Methodology, Theaterstr. 35-39, Room 325, and online (please send an email to igor.vatolkin [at] rwth-aachen.de if you wish to … Weiterlesen →

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Paper with Guidelines for Multimodal Datasets Published at TISMIR

M. Gotham, B. Bemman, and I. Vatolkin: Towards an ‘Everything Corpus’: A Framework and Guidelines for the Curation of More Comprehensive Multimodal Music Data. Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval, 8(1), pp. 70-92. Abstract: Current state-of-the-art methods … Weiterlesen →

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A Workshop for Live Coding and Instruments (19-20.06.2025 at TU Dortmund)

Write yourself an Orchestra A workshop for live coding and instruments. On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the ensemble for contemporary chamber music at the TU Dortmund, Niklas Reppel and Alicia Champlin (hailing from Toplap Barcelona) are offering … Weiterlesen →

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SIGMA #59

The program of the following 59th SIGMA meeting on 05.03.2025, 14:00-16:00, which takes place at the Chair of Algorithm Engineering, Deparment of Computer Science, TU Dortmund, Otto-Hahn-Str. 14, room 202, and online (please send an email to igor.vatolkin [at] rwth-aachen.de … Weiterlesen →

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