Invited Talks
- Bridging Deep Learning & Cognitive Neuroscience – From Method Transfer to Hybrid Modeling [slides]
2nd Montreal AI & Neuroscience Conference (MAIN 2018)
December 10, 2018 – Montreal, Canada - Deep Learning for Next-Generation HCI [slides]
Keynote Talk @ 28th Workshop on Computational Intelligence
November 29, 2018 – Dortmund, Germany - Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Künstlichen Intelligenz [slides]
Fachtag Arbeit 4.0
November 26, 2018 – Agentur für Arbeit, Potsdam, Germany - AI for Music Creation [slides | press]
Most Wanted: Music
November 8, 2018 – Berlin, Germany - Künstliche Intelligenz und Medien
Invited Lecture @ Digital Media Law and Management LL.M. / MBA
October 12, 2018 – Erich Pommer Institut, Potsdam, Germany - Deep Learning for Next-Generation HCI
July 9, 2018 – Fraunhofer IDMT, Ilmenau, Gemany - What is Deep Machine Learning? The Scientific Perspective
54th Annual Meeting of the European Society of Paediatric Radiology (ESPR)
June 22, 2018 – Berlin, Germany - Flipped Classrooms: Eine Methode zur Steigerung der Effektivität der Lehre (?)
Veranstaltungsreihe “Gute Lehre”
May 23, 2018 – University of Potsdam, Germany - Towards Studying Music Imagery with Deep Neural Networks [slides]
KOSMOS Workshop on Mind Wandering and Visual Mental Imagery in Music
May 18, 2018 – Berlin, Germany - Deep Learning for Medical Big Data: Potential and Limitations [slides]
PharMetrX 10 Years Celebration Symposium
April 20, 2018 – Berlin, Germany - Deep Learning for Audio Analysis
Audi Machine Learning Day
February 22, 2018 – Audi, Ingolstadt, Germany - Generative Deep Learning
Invited Lecture @ SFB 1294 – Data Assimilation
January 19, 2018 – University of Potsdam, Germany - Machine Learning in Cognitive Science
Perspektivenmeeting Machine Learning
November 15, 2017 – Charité, Berlin - (Challenges and Opportunities of) Deep Learning for Next-Generation HCI
VolkswagenStiftung Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and its Impact on Tomorrow’s World
October 6, 2017 – Einbeck, Germany - Automatic Speech Recognition (on a Budget) – Transfer Learning and Introspection [slides]
Workshop on Systematic Approaches to Deep Learning Methods for Audio
September 14, 2017 – Erwin Schroedinger Institute (ESI), Vienna - Introduction to EEG Decoding for Music Information Retrieval Research (full-day tutorial together with Blair Kaneshiro from CCRMA at Stanford University) [slides & code]
17th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2016)
August 7, 2016 – Columbia University, New York City, NY, USA - Deep Feature Learning for EEG Recordings [slides]
Special session “Neural Nets to Neural Nets: Deep Learning Approaches to Neuroimaging” @ the annual meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM)
June 29, 2016 – Geneva, Switzerland - Pre-Training Deep Nets to Decode Brain Activity [slides]
Berlin Machine Learning Meetup
April 4, 2016 – Berlin, Germany - Similarity and Feature Learning for EEG Recordings of Music Perception and Imagination [slides]
Hearing Seminar @ Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA)
August 31, 2015 – Stanford University, CA, USA - Decoding EEG of Music Perception and Imagination
DKE Research Colloquium @ Otto-von-Guericke University
May 21, 2015 – Magdeburg, Germany - Decoding EEG of Music Perception and Imagination
Research & Technology Seminar @ Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique / Musique (IRCAM)
May 7, 2015 – Paris, France - Decoding Brain Waves with Deep Learning Techniques – Recent Advances and New Challenges [slides]
DKE Research Colloquium @ Otto-von-Guericke University
October 6, 2014 – Magdeburg, Germany - Adaptive Music Retrieval and Beyond [slides]
AES Students Section Talk @ Fraunhofer IDMT
January 31, 2013 – Ilmenau, Germany - Learning Similarity Measures for Music (full-day tutorial) [slides]
9th Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC 2012)
July 11, 2012 – Aalborg University Copenhagen, Denmark - From User-Adaptive Organization of Music Collections to Bisociative Music Discovery [slides]
Music Technology Group, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
September 13, 2011 – Barcelona, Spain - Adaptive Distance Measures for Exploration and Structuring of Music Collections [slides]
Keynote Talk @ AES 42nd Conference on Semantic Audio
July 23, 2011 – Ilmenau, Germany
Conference & Workshop Talks
- 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 & IntelligentInformation & Engineering Systems (KES’06)
October 9, 2006 – Bournemouth, UK - 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
- Maschinen an die Macht – Die KI-Revolution!?
Potsdamer Tag der Wissenschaften
May 5, 2018 – University of Potsdam, Germany - Maschinen an die Macht – Die KI-Revolution!?
Potsdamer Tag der Wissenschaften
May 13, 2017 – University of Potsdam, 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