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| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/R64810/01 |
| Title: |
NETWORK: Music Processing Network (MuProNet) |
| Principal Investigator: |
Professor M Plumbley |
| Other Investigators: |
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| Researcher Co-investigator: |
| Ms C Boehm |
Mr T Crawford |
Dr BM Eaglestone |
| Dr A Field |
Professor S Godsill |
Professor C Iliopoulos |
| Professor FJ Rumsey |
Professor GA Wiggins |
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| Project Partner: |
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| Department: |
Sch of Electronic Eng & Computer Science |
| Organisation: |
Queen Mary, University of London |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research |
| Starts: |
02 January 2003 |
Ends: |
01 January 2006 |
Value (£): |
61,794
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| EPSRC Research Topic Classifications: |
| Cognitive Science Applications in ICT |
Digital Signal Processing |
| Human-Computer Interactions |
Multimedia |
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| Panel History: |
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Summary |
Recent years have seen sharp growth in interest in the use of information technology for music. A number of interdisciplinary collaborative groupings have bin formed within UK universities over the last couple of years to link together departments of Music, Electronic Engineering and Computer Science. We will establish a Network to enhance UK research in the Musical Signal Processing community. This Network will primarily be concerned with analysis, transmission, storage, generation and her processing of musical signals. The Network is expected to lead to increased collaborative activity in the field.
The activities of the Network will include: workshops and meetings, visits to conferences and other laboratories (particularly for younger researchers), and electronic communication such as email and a web site. An important Network activity will be the production of a "Research Roadmap" to help future research planning and inform funding bodice on the state of the art and future opportunities. Dissemination of activities and information relevant to the Network will be an important aspect of its work, tiding to increased opportunities for exploitation and collaboration with UK industry and international researchers. The Network will consist of 6 partners in the first instance. Other relevant groups and researchers will be encouraged to join the Network during its operation.
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| Final Report Summary |
Recent years have seen sharp growth in interest in the use of information technology for music. A number of interdisciplinary collaborative groupings have been formed within UK universities over the last couple of years to link together departments of Music, Electronic Engineering and Computer Science. We established the Digital Music Research Network (DMRN) as a Network to enhance UK research in the Digital Musical Research. This Network will primarily be concerned with analysis, transmission, storage, generation and processing of musical signals.
DMRN organised a series of one-day workshops during the EPSRC-funded part of its operation, including one in Cambridge, one in York, and three in London. A Summer Conference, organised by PhD students, was held in Glasgow in 2005. Joint and co-sponsored events include a 3-day DMRN/SARC joint workshop series in 2004, the launch event of the AES Technical Committee on Semantic Audio Analysis Audio Gets Smart, and supporting the keynote speaker for the Leeds International Music Technology Education Conference (LIMTEC) in 2004. DMRN also attracted two major international conferences for the UK: Digital Audio Effects (DAFx-03) and the International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR-2005).
Initially with six partner institutions, DMRN has grown to include 16 partner institutions from across the UK. The UK Digital Music Research Roadmap was developed during the lifetime of DMRN. This has been well received, and will feed into a related Europe-wide Roadmap which is now under construction. A further notable outcome of DMRN is the creation of new related EPSRC networks in the music and multimedia area: five new Networks have come into being during the lifetime of DMRN, including the LiveAlgorithms for Music Network, SpACE-Net - The Spatial Audio Creative Engineering Network, and the Musical Acoustics Network.
DMRN Executive Committee:
Dr Mark Plumbley, Queen Mary University of London (Chair)
Dr Nicholas Bailey, University of Glasgow
Dr Tim Brookes, University of Surrey
Dr Barry Eaglestone, University of Sheffield
Dr Simon Godsill, University of Cambridge
Dr Tony Myatt, University of York
Prof Geraint Wiggins, Goldsmiths College, University of London
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| Further Information: |
http://www.elec.qmul.ac.uk/dmrn/ |
| Organisation Website: |
http://www.qmul.ac.uk |
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