Dr. Masataka Goto's Home Page

Introduction:

I am a Leader of Media Interaction Group (Senior Research Scientist until March 31, 2009), Information Technology Research Institute (ITRI) at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), which is a newborn Japanese public research organization that is set up on April 1st, 2001 and combines 15 research institutes, including the former Electrotechnical Laboratory (ETL) where I worked from April 1st, 1998 to March 31st, 2001.

I have served concurrently as a Researcher of Precursory Research for Embryonic Science and Technology (PRESTO) ("Information and Human Activity" research area), Japan Science and Technology Corporation (JST) from October 1st, 2000 to September 30th, 2003, an Associate Professor (Cooperative Graduate School Program) of the Department of Intelligent Interaction Technologies, Graduate School of Systems and Information Engineering, University of Tsukuba since April 1st, 2005, and a Visiting Professor of the Intelligent Information Processing Group, Department of Statistical Modeling, The Institute of Statistical Mathematics since April 1st, 2008 (Visiting Associate Professor until March 31, 2009).

I received a B.E. degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering in 1993, an M.E. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1995, and a Doctor of Engineering degree in Electronics, Information and Communication Engineering in 1998, all from Waseda University (Muraoka Laboratory). I received 25 awards, including the Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of MEXT "Young Scientists' Prize", DoCoMo Mobile Science Awards "Excellence Award in Fundamental Science", IPSJ Nagao Special Researcher Award, and IPSJ Best Paper Award.

Professional Activities / History of Attending International Conferences / Reports on the Media

Visiting Researchers and Internship Students

News! (2007/09/25):

We are pleased to announce that ISMIR 2009 (The Tenth International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference) will be held in Kobe, Japan (General Chairs: Masataka Goto and Ichiro Fujinaga). It will be held from October 26th to 30th.

News! (2005/05/20): (Old "News!" is here.)

Our paper "SmartMusicKIOSK: Music Listening Station with Chorus-Search Function" published in Transactions of Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ) was given the IPSJ Best Paper Award on May 20, 2005. I wish to express my gratitude to those who have supported this project.

News! (2005/04/01): (Old "News!" is here.)

I began serving concurrently as an associate professor (cooperative graduate school program) of the Department of Intelligent Interaction Technologies, Graduate School of Systems and Information Engineering, University of Tsukuba on April 1st, 2005.

News! (2004/11/01): (Old "News!" is here.)

An invited review article "Recent studies on music information processing" (HTML version) was published in the journal "Acoustical Science and Technology" (Vol.25, No.6, pp.419-425, November 2004).

News! (2004/05/28, 06/10): (Old "News!" is here.)

My research project on "SmartMusicKIOSK: Music Listening Station with Chorus-Search Function" was reported on the on-line news sites of Nature and American Institute of Physics.

Reports on Newspaper, Television, and Magazine:

• "How to listen to old records in the 21st century" in the Inside Science News Service (ISNS) by American Institute of Physics (2004/04/16)
• "Smart music system skips to chorus" in the Nature Science Update by Nature Publishing Group (2004/05/28)
• "Smart music system skips to chorus" in the Japanese on-line news site "Nature BioNews" (2004/06/10)

News! (2004/05/25): (Old "News!" is here.)

News! (2003/08/01, 09/09): (Old "News!" is here.)

My research project on "SmartMusicKIOSK: Music Listening Station with Chorus-Search Function" was reported in the morning edition of the Japanese daily newspaper "Nihon Keizai Shimbun" on August 1, 2003, and in the Japanese newspaper "Nikkei Ryutsu Shimbun (Nikkei Marketing Journal)" on September 9, 2003.

Reports on Newspaper, Television, and Magazine:

• Reported in the morning edition of the Japanese daily newspaper "Nihon Keizai Shimbun" on August 1, 2003.
• Reported in the Japanese newspaper "Nikkei Ryutsu Shimbun (Nikkei Marketing Journal)" on September 9, 2003.

News! (2003/03/01,07): (Old "News!" is here.)

Our paper "SmartMusicKIOSK: Music Listening Station with Chorus-Search Function" presented in the Japanese symposium "Interaction 2003" of the IPSJ (The Information Processing Society of Japan) was given the Best Paper Award on February 27, 2003. I wish to express my gratitude to those who have supported this project, especially to Hideki Asoh (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology) for his valuable discussions.

Reports on Newspaper, Television, and Magazine:

• Reported in an article by Kaoru Misaki on the Japanese on-line news site "ITmedia News" on March 6, 2003.
• Reported in an article by Yutaka Kobayashi on the Japanese on-line news site "ITmedia News" on March 6, 2003.
• Reported in the Japanese magazine "Robocon Magazine" on April 14, 2003.

Research Projects:

List of Research Projects (Including Collaborative Research)

• Active Music Listening Interfaces, Augmented Music-Understanding Interfaces (New)
  • SmartMusicKIOSK: Music Listening Station with a Chorus-Search Function
  • Cindy: Virtual Dancers Driven by Beat Tracking
  • LyricSynchronizer: Automatic Synchronization of Lyrics with CD Recordings
  • INTER: Instrument Equalizer for CD Recordings
  • Drumix: Audio Player with a Real-Time Drum-Part Editing Function
  • Musicream: Integrated Music-Listening Environment for Active, Flexible, and Unexpected Encounters with Musical Pieces
  • MusicRainbow: Artist Discovery Interface Using Audio-Based Similarity and Web-Based Labeling (New)
  • MusicSun: Artist Discovery Interface Using Audio-Based, Web-Based, and Word-Based Similarities (New)
  • VocalFinder: Music Information Retrieval System Based on Vocal Timbre Similarity
• Music Understanding
  • Real-time Music Scene Description System
    1. A Real-time Beat Tracking System for Musical Acoustic Signals
    2. Real-time F0 Estimation of Melody and Bass Lines in Musical Audio Signals
    3. A Chorus-Section Detecting Method for Musical Audio Signals
  • A Sound Source Separation System for Percussion Instruments
• Speech
  • Speech Recognition Research 2.0: A Web 2.0 Approach to Speech Recognition Research (New)
  • PodCastle: A Social Annotation System Where Podcasts Can Be Searched, Read, and Annotated by Text (New)
  • Speech Interface Making Full Use of Nonverbal Speech Information
    1. Speech Completion
    2. Speech Shift
    3. Speech Starter
    4. Speech Spotter
    5. Speech Repair
    6. Speech Pen
  • Real-time Filled Pause Detection for Spontaneous Speech Dialogue
• Singing Information Processing
  • VocaListener: Singing-to-Singing Synthesis System Based on Iterative Parameter Estimation (New)
  • SingBySpeaking: Speech-To-Singing Synthesis System by Controlling Acoustic Features Unique to Singing Voices
• Music Information Retrieval
  • Speech-Recognition Interfaces for Music Information Retrieval
  • MIR (Music Information Retrieval) Research in Japan
• Invited review "Recent studies on music information processing"

Interaction

• VirJa Session (A Virtual Jazz Session System)
• Interactive Performance of a Music-controlled CG Dancer
• A Distributed Cooperative System to Play MIDI Instruments
  (RMCP: Remote Media Control Protocol)

Publications:

• English Papers (last update: February 4, 2010)
• Japanese and English Papers (in Japanese) (last update: February 4, 2010)

• 25 Awards

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• National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
• Information Technology Research Institute

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Masataka GOTO <m.goto [at] aist.go.jp>


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last update: February 4, 2010