talks

Invited Talks

Research Presentations at Conferences & Workshops

• Learning Discriminative Features from EEG Recordings by Encoding Similarity Constraints by Encoding Similarity Constraints [slides]
  42nd IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2017)
  March 6, 2017 - New Orleans, LA, USA
• Learning about Music Cognition by Asking MIR Questions [slides]
  6th Annual seminar on Cognitively based Music Informatics Research (CogMIR'16)
  August 12, 2016 - Columbia University, New York City, NY, USA
• Brain Beats: Tempo Extraction from EEG Data [slides]
  17th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2016)
  August 8, 2016 - New York University, New York City, NY, USA
• Similarity and Feature Learning for EEG Recordings of Music Perception and Imagination [slides]
  (Best Presentation Award)
  5th Annual seminar on Cognitively based Music Informatics Research (CogMIR'15)
  September 5, 2015 - Toronto, ON, Canada
• Measuring Tempo from EEG Recordings of Imagined Music [slides]
  Rhythm and Timing Symposium
  February 28, 2015 - London, ON, Canada
• Music Imagery Information Retrieval [slides]
  7th Annual meeting of the Northeastern Music Information Special Interest Group (NEMISIG'15)
  January 31, 2015 - Ithaca, NY, United States
• Classifying EEG Recordings of Rhythm Perception [slides]
  15th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR'14)
  October 20, 2014 - Taipei, Taiwan
• Does the Beat go on? -- Identifying Rhythms from Brain Waves Recorded after Their Auditory Presentation [slides]
  9th Audio Mostly: A Conference on Interaction With Sound (AM ‘14)
  October 2, 2014 - Aalborg, Denmark
• Voice-Controlled Search User Interfaces for Young Users [slides]
  7th annual Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval (HCIR'13)
  October 3, 2013 - Vancouver, Canada
• An Experimental Comparison of Similarity Adaptation Approaches [slides]
  9th International Workshop on Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval (AMR'11)
  July 19, 2011 - Barcelona, Spain
• Analyzing the Impact of Data Vectorization on Distance Relations [slides]
  3rd International Workshop on Advances in Music Information Research (AdMIRe'11) at the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME'11)
  July 15, 2011 - Barcelona, Spain
• Evaluation of Adaptive SpringLens - A Multi-focus Interface for Exploring Multimedia Collections [slides]
  6th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (NordiCHI'10)
  October 19, 2010 - Reykjavik, Iceland
• Similarity Adaptation in an Exploratory Retrieval Scenario [slides]
  8th International Workshop on Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval (AMR'10)
  August 18, 2010 - Linz, Austria
• Multi-Facet Exploration of Image Collections with an Adaptive Multi-Focus Zoomable Interface [slides]
  2010 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI'10)
  July 23, 2010 - Barcelona, Spain
• A Multi-Focus Zoomable Interface for Multi-Facet Exploration of Music Collections [slides]
  7th International Symposium on Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval (CMMR'10)
  June 24, 2010 - Malaga, Spain
• Visualisierung von großen Musiksammlungen unter Berücksichtigung projektionsbedingter Verzerrungen (in German) [slides]
  36th Annual Meeting of the German Acoustical Society (DAGA'10)
  March 17, 2010 - Berlin, Germany
• A Survey on the Acceptance of Listening Context Logging for MIR Applications [slides]
  3rd Workshop on Learning the Semantics of Audio Signals (LSAS'09)
  December 2, 2009 - Graz, Austria
• Supporting Folk-Song Research by Automatic Metric Learning and Ranking [slides]
  10th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR'09)
  October 30, 2009 - Kobe, Japan
• Everything in its right place? Learning a user's view of a music collection [slides]
  NAG/DAGA 2009 International Conference on Acoustics
  March 24, 2009 - Rotterdam, The Netherlands
• Towards User-Adaptive Structuring and Organization of Music Collections [slides]
  6th International Workshop on Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval (AMR'08)
  June 26, 2008 - Berlin, Germany
• Browsing Music by Usage Context [slides]
  2nd Workshop on Learning the Semantics of Audio Signals (LSAS'08)
  June 21, 2008 - IRCAM, Paris, France
• Enhancing Chord Classification through Neighbourhood Histograms [slides]
  6th International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI'08)
  June 18, 2008 - London, UK
• AUCOMA - Adaptive Nutzerzentrierte Organisation von Musikarchiven (in German) [slides]
  34th Annual Meeting of the German Acoustical Society (DAGA'08)
  March 12, 2008 - Dresden, Germany
• User Modelling for Interactive User-Adaptive Collection Structuring [slides]
  5th International Workshop on Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval (AMR'07)
  July 5, 2007 - Paris, France
• DAWN - A System for Context-Based Link Recommendation in Web Navigation [slides]
  10th International Conference on Knowledge-Based & Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems (KES'06)
  October 9, 2006 - Bournemouth, UK</div>
• SAFIRE: Towards Standardized Semantic Rich Image Annotation [slides]
  4th International Workshop on Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval (AMR'06)
  July 27, 2006 - Geneva, Switzerland
• Context-Based Navigational Support in Hypermedia [slides]
  4th International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems (AH'06)
  June 21, 2006 - Dublin, Ireland

Other Talks

• Bridging Deep Learning & Cognitive Neuroscience - From Method Transfer to Hybrid Modeling [slides]
  Antrittsvorlesung"
  February 6, 2019 - Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany
• Deep Feature Learning for EEG Recordings [slides]
  Inaugural Talk of the Junior Research Group "Machine Learning in Cognitive Science"
  May 10, 2016 - University of Potsdam, Germany
• Deep Feature Learning for EEG Recordings [slides]
  Brain & Mind Institute Coffee Talk Series
  December 1, 2015 - London, Ontario, Canada
• A Brief Overview of my Research Background [slides]
  Owen Lab Research Colloquium
  January 21, 2014 - London, Ontario, Canada
• Adaptive Verfahren zur nutzerzentrierten Organisation von Musiksammlungen (in German) [slides]
  GI 2011 Best Computer Science Dissertation Award Competition
  May 16, 2012 - Schloss Dagstuhl Leibniz Center for Informatics, Germany
  
• Adaptive Methods for User-Centered Organization of Music Collections [slides]
  PhD Thesis Defense
  November 15, 2011 - Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany
• Adaptive User-Centered Organization of Music Archives [slides]
  Doktorandentag @ Faculty of Computer Science
  July 6, 2010 - Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany
• Kontextbasierte Navigationsunterstützung mit Markov-Modellen (in German) [slides]
  Diploma Thesis Defense
  December 21, 2005 - Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany
• Design and Implementation of an Algorithm and Data Structure for Matching of Geometric Primitives in Visual Object Classification (in German) [slides]
  Internship Report Defense
  June 13, 2005 - Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany