UK Research Groups
Queen Mary University of
London
Research in the Centre, led by Prof Mark Sandler, started
with
the work in Digital Power Amplification in 1982. Recent
relevant research in the lab includes work on music analysis
and automatic
music transcription using various techniques such as blackboard
models and neural networks; application of Hidden Markov
Models
to music; digital audio watermarking; Wavelet transform
for audio coding; music synthesis; sigma-delta signal processing;
independent component analysis (ICA) and blind source separation.
Contact: Dr
Mark Plumbley, Prof
Mark Sandler, Dr
Josh Reiss
Interaction, Media, and Communication is a multi-disciplinary
group which applies computer science, philosophy, and psychology
to exploit the potential of digital technologies to support
novel forms of human action and interaction. Interests
include: human-human communication, interactional engagement
and creativity, human error modelling, multi-modal interaction
(including verbal, gestural, aural, graphical and musical
interaction) and accessibility.
Contact: Dr
Nick Bryan-Kinns, Dr Pat Healey
University of Bristol
The work of the Signal Processing Group relates primarily
to problems associated with image and video transmission
and analysis. It also has activities in the areas of radar
signal processing, tracking and audio analysis. [See also
historical Digital
Music Research (DMR) Group pages]
Contact: Prof
Nishan Canagarajah, Prof
David Bull
University of Cambridge
The Signal Processing and Communications Laboratory is
active in many areas, including image and 3D data processing,
computer vision and computer graphics, audio and music
processing, statistical methodology
(especially Bayesian methods), life sciences data (including
genomics), tracking and machine learning.
Contact: Prof
Bill Fitzgerald, Dr
Simon Godsill, Prof
Peter Rayner
City University, London
The work of the group includes the study of computational
models of music analysis, music generation, and music performance.
Interests of the Music Informatics group include statistical
modelling, computational musicology, music knowledge representation,
pattern discovery, and music e-learning. The group is also
interested in wider aspects of modelling sequential structures,
such as financial time series, biological sequences, and
text, and the novel application of techniques from these
areas to music.
Contact: Dr
Darrell Conklin, Dr
Tillman Weyde
De Montfort University, Leicester
MTI Research Centre is the research hub of De Montfort
University's (DMU) Music, Technology and Innovation Department
(MTI), a programme of undergraduate and postgraduate education
and researchwhich is part of DMU's Faculty of Humanities.
Activites encompass a broad and continually evolving range
of artistic creation and theory focused on innovative application
of new technologies to music.
Contact: Prof
Leigh Landy, Prof
Andrew Hugill, Dr
Simon Atkinson, Prof
Simon Emmerson
University of Glasgow
CMT is an interdisciplinary
centre of the Departments of Music, Computing Science and
Electronics & Electrical Engineering, managed by a
board of staff members in the participating disciplines.
Research topics include: Automatic Music Transcription;
Optical Music Recognition; Content labelling; MPEG standard
encoding methods such as MPEG-4 Structured Audio, MPEG-7,
etc.; Streaming formats for delivery of audio over the
Internet; Musical information storage, searching and retrieval;
Multi-channel audio systems; Mixing and Post-processing
systems; Musical composition tools; and Musical instrument
synthesis.
Contact: Dr
Carola Böhm, Dr
Nick Bailey, Dr
Nick Fells, Prof
Stephen Brewster
Goldsmiths' College, University of London
Research
in the group is focussed around two main areas: modelling
of musical creativity and cognitively plausible tools
and techniques for the analysis of musical data. An important
aspect of the
current work is pattern discovery and matching in large
musical datasets, and work in this area has recently
led
to the discovery
and patenting of new algorithms for the discovery and
matching of patterns in arbitrary multidimensional datasets.
Contact: Prof
Geraint Wiggins, Dr
David Meredith, Mr
Tim Crawford, Dr Michael Casey
The research
labs include Cognitive Neuroscience (Psychology) and
the Goldsmiths Digital Studios, where
the emphasis is on the creative use of computing and
information technology in music and the visual arts, and
the computational
modelling of cognition. The main aim of the centre (The
4Cs) is the understanding of cognitive processes including
those related to cultural differences.
Contact: Dr
Michael Young, Prof
Geraint Wiggins
Imperial College
Research is centred around the theme of Multimedia Information
Retrieval, including Music Retrieval. The group is part
of the London Knowledge Management Network.
Contact: Dr
Stefan Rüger
King's College London
The Group has a wide range
of interests encompassing both applied and basic research.
Particular strengths are in bio-informatics, music analysis,
network optimization, string, graph and randomized algorithms.
The research of the Group includes designing sequential
and parallel algorithms to solve practical problems, providing
rigorous proofs of correctness and efficiency, as well
as exploring new areas of algorithmic research and evaluating
selected algorithms exprimentally. Prof C. Iliopoulis (Head
of the Group), Prof. A. Gibbons, and M. Kurokawa are working
on computer assisted musical analysis in the group. This
research aims to design and implement efficient algorithms
for monophonic and polyphonic motif matching in musical
sequences.
Contact: Prof
Costas Iliopoulis, Prof
Alan Gibbons
Leeds College of Music
The aims of the group include both work in original composition
and academic research: Compositional research involves:
Composition and dissemination of electroacoustic music;
Music for Film and Television; Popular music composition.
Current academic research topics include: The development
of Music Technology education at secondary and tertiary
levels; Diegetic and Non-diegetic sound in film and television;
Creativity and Art in Music Recording and Process in Experimental
music.
Contact: Dr
Catherine Parsonage
University of Leeds
ICSRiM aims to produce research outcomes of international
significance in the broad area of musical sound and its
applications, and to exploit existing technologies and
to drive novel technologies in musical sound and its applications.
Contact: Dr
Kia Ng
London Metropolitain University
Music Technology (Sir
John Cass Department of Art, Media and Design)
The area consists of work in audio electronics, DSP, sound
synthesis, and digital audio. The University also supports
the Centre for New Musical Instruments (CNMI). The primary
aim of CNMI is to develop new versions of mainstream acoustic
and orchestral instruments, with the immediate objective
of creating orchestral-type instruments that reliably provide
quartertones and other tuning systems. CNMI is also keen
to encourage new timbral possibilities, acoustic-electronic
hybrid instruments, and those that complement digital and
electroacoustic instruments and music. CNMI aims to encourage
collaborative projects involving fundamental research,
e.g. acoustics, materials, electronics, new technologies,
interfaces, cognitive and musical systems theory, software
development, e.g. physical modelling, instrument design
tools, interface control software.
Contact: Allan
Seago, Sam
Verik, Lewis
Jones
University of Plymouth
Formed of scholars from different backgrounds and from
different departments across the University, including
musicians, media artists, engineers, neuroscientists and
psychologists. Research interests include systems for musical
composition, software sound synthesis, artificial intelligence,
evolutionary computing models of music, biomusicology and
neuroscience of music. The group is developing new intelligent
musical systems that will be able to evolve their own rules
for musical composition and ability to interact with musicians
and listeners in much more sophisticated ways than the
present ones can do. We predict the emergence of new kinds
of music content, most of which will be generated on the
fly, requiring new modes of representation, access and
interaction. New research topics such as Evolutionary Computer
Music and Neuroscience of Music are emerging as natural
progressions in Computer Music research
Contact: Prof
Eduardo Reck Miranda, Mr
Dan Livingstone
Queen's University Belfast
A newly established centre
of excellence, dedicated to the research of music technology.
The new £4.5m Centre, the first purpose-built facility
of its kind in the UK, has brought together key researchers
working in the fields of music, computer science and electronic
and electrical engineering into a world-class research
group. The team, which has grown to over thirty people,
is now one of the biggest groups of its kind in Europe
has been actively recruiting staff from leading institutions
in the field. SARC’s aim is to develop strategic
partnerships with leading commercial and academic organisations
in the audio, music and multimedia arena and, through these
links, to advance creative and technical boundaries in
the discipline.
Contact: Prof
Michael Alcorn, Dr
Maarten van Walstijn
University
of Salford
Principle areas include building and architectural acoustics,
environmental acoustics, outdoor sound propagation, remote
acoustic sensing of metrological conditions, subjective
response especially for room acoustics and audio systems,
digital signal processing, transducer design and active
control. Salford is one of the two UK universities that
provide acoustics training at degree, masters and doctoral
level. The Centre has a portfolio of fundamental and applied
research projects funded by research councils, government
bodies, and industry. Activities include work on physical
modelling of musical instruments.
Contact: Dr
Ian Drumm, Prof Trevor Cox
University of Sheffield
The MISTRES Group was formed at Sheffield University in
1998, involving the departments of Information Studies,
Computer Science and Music. The broad aim of the group
is to seek improved computer environments that better support
the creative process of music composition and performance.
This is a multi-faceted and multidisciplinary domain, hence
the involvement of three departments.
Contact: Dr
Barry Eaglestone, Dr
Guy Brown, Dr
Adrian Moore
University of Surrey
Research is centred on the measurement,
analysis and characterisation of recorded, reproduced,
and live sound. Tools for sound analysis, visualisation
and control are
being developed alongside innovative experimental approaches
to sound quality assessment. Close links, including collaboration
and student sponsorship, exist with BBC Research and Development,
Meridian Audio, Bang & Olufsen, Sony and NXT among others.
Contact: Prof
Francis Rumsey, Dr
Tim Brookes, Dr
Russell Mason, Dr Slawek Zielinski
University of York
Work in the Audio Lab relates to understanding what gives
a sound its naturalness, sound analysis and synthesis,
applications of audio and human perception of sound, particularly
in three dimensions.
Contact: Prof
David Howard, Mr
Ross Kirk, Dr
Andy Hunt, Dr
Damian Murphy, Mr
Tony Tew
The group is involved in the development of high speed
digital signal processing for musical applications and
has a Silicon
Graphics
Origin High Performance Computer with a 0.5TByte storage
for compositional and software research. The music
research centre promotes and supports creative research
into the use and application of technology in Music. The
centre has been designed to establish a supportive environment
for an active community of researchers and artists and
to support and develop contemporary creative work of international
significance.
Contact: Dr
Tony Myatt, Dr
Ambrose Field
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