About Me

2003-2005: Master course, Department of Intelligence Science and Technology, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University (Okuno Lab)
2005-2008: Ph.D course, Department of Intelligence Science and Technology, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University (Okuno Lab)
2005-2008: JSPS Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (DC1)
2008-: MI, ITRI, AIST
A member of IPSJ, IEICE, and IEE
Interest: Music information processing (machine learning, signal processing, music interfaces, music robots)
Ph.D (Informatics)

Research Topics

Bayesian Nonparametrics
- Multipitch analysis: infinite latent harmonic allocation (iLHA)
- Chord progression analysis: vocabulary-free infinity-gram model
Music Recommender System
- A hybrid music recommender based on user ratings and acoustic features
- Incremental training methods for improving efficiency and scalability
- Smoothing methods for improving generalization capability
Drum sound recognition
- AdaMast: A drum onset detector based on template adaptation and matching
- An error correction method based on drum-onset periodicity
Active music listening interfaces
- INTER:D: A drum sound equalizer
- Drumix: An audio player with real-time drum-part rearrangement functions
Music Applications
- Music Thumbnailer: Visualizing musical pieces based on acoustic geatures
- Music Commentator: Generating comments synchronized with musical audio signals
Music robots
- A humanoid robot who can keeps steps in time with musical beatsp

Author : Kazuyoshi Yoshii (AIST)
mail to k.yoshii(at)aist.go.jp