People

Current Developers:

Main Designer and Developer George Tzanetakis

Affiliation : University of Victoria

I am an assistant professor in Computer Science (also cross-listed in Music and Electrical and Computer Engineering) at the University of Victoria in Canada. I received my PhD in Computer Science from Princeton University under the supervision of Dr. Perry Cook. I also worked at Carnegie Mellon University as a PostDoctoral Fellow with Dr. Roger Dannenberg on query-by-humming systems and audio-score alignment and with the Informedia group on multimodal video retrieval and microphone arrays.

I have also consulted with several companies using Marsyas. They include&58 Moodlogic Inc. (audio fingerpriting), All Music Inc, The Netherlands (music-speech classification), and Teligence Communications Inc. (gender classification of voice recordings).

My research deals with all stages of audio content analysis such as feature extraction, segmentation, classification, retrieval and source separation with specific focus on Music Information Retrieval (MIR). I am also an active musician and have studied saxophone performance, music theory and composition.

Windows and Qt Guru (Portuguese Invasion 1) Luis Gustavo Martins

Affiliation : Portuguese Catholic University - School of Arts / Research Center for Science and Technology in the Arts, Porto, Portugal

I've been using and contributing to Marsyas since its 0.1 version, back in 2003, when working on a contract project that required a realtime audio classifier (for music/speech/noise/silence...). When I started my PhD in the area of computational auditory scene analysis (CASA), I based all my research software implementation and evaluations in Marsyas 0.2. Marsyas was a key factor for my PhD work, being efficient and flexible to develop advanced algorithms for sound segregation, that run close to real-time. Contributing to Marsyas also allowed me to interact and work with all the Marsyas developer team, becoming one of the most import learning experiences in my research and academic life.

Video, Python, upcoming Marsyas-0.x (Portuguese Invasion 2) Luis Teixeira

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I'm a PhD student at FEUP and a researcher at the Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit of INESC Porto. Currently most of my time is consumed by my PhD and by the strange experiments I'm doing with Marsyas like trying to get video to work in it, and who knows what more! As for the PhD, the focus is on the detection of events and automatic description of multi-sensor systems. Previously I worked with MPEG-4 and MPEG-7 for a video editing framework during MSc. That was back in 2004. Before, i.e. since I started my collaboration with INESC Porto in 2001 until 2004, I collaborated in several research projects mainly on distributed multimedia systems. Multimodal analysis, fusion of information from multiple types of sources and multimedia distributed systems are my main research interests. C/C++ and Python are the tools of the trade.

Author of the most complex MarSystem network Mathieu Lagrange

Affiliation : Associate Researcher at Telecom Paris

I am interested in auditory scene analysis for music streams understanding. For such a purpose, Marsyas as a valuable tool as it provides the user with an efficient, easy-to-install platform for processing various type of audio data. As the owner of the "Most complex Marsystem network" Award, I can say that even on challenging research tasks, Marsyas proved to be flexible and fun to use.

Lilypond, Documentation Editor Graham Percival

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I finished my Masters in Computer Science and Music, working on software to help beginning string students. I am also the Documentation Editor and Bug Meister for GNU/LilyPond.

Coder Steven Ness

Affiliation : University of Victoria

Steven is a mad scientist and coder who works on various aspects of Marsyas. He added unit tests to Marsyas, turned the website into a Ruby on Rails backend, has written some Marsystems, and uses Marsyas in the development of rich internet-enabled applications like cantillion and pan.sness.net. He's currently doing his M.Sc. in the lab of George Tzanetakis in the field of Music Information Retrieval.

Coder and Code Styler Stefaan Lippens

Affiliation : Ghent University, Belgium

My first encounter with Marsyas was in 2002. It was used for my master thesis at Ghent University on the topic of automatic musical genre classification. After completing my electrical engineering studies, I started working in the field of image processing and obtained my PhD on halftoning and printing. Since 2008 I'm back in the field of audio and music processing, now as a post-doctoral researcher at the Digital Speech and Signal Processing research group of Ghent University. The research revolves around music information retrieval and is bridged with an outside company. Together we focus on large scale automatic extraction of several music characteristics such as musical genre and rhythm style. My main Marsyas activities and contributions are situated in the core MarSystems and the Python bindings.

Coder Zhang Bingjun (Eddy)

Affiliation : National University of Sigapore

I am currently PhD candidate under the supervision of Dr Wang Ye, in Department of Computer Science, School of Computing, National University of Singapore. My research interest include music information retrieval, multimodal data fusion, and machine learning. In the project of multimodal music information retrieval, we employed Marsyas to build a music analysis module. In addition, we also modified parts of the Marsyas framework to extend it functionality and robustness.

Gabrielle Odowichuk

Affiliation : University of Victoria

I am pursuing a MASc under the supervision of George Tzanetakis and Peter Driessen at the University of Victoria. My work is in the field of audio signal processing, and I used Marsyas to process real-time audio signals for sound localization using a microphone array. I've written my very own MarSystem to perform cross-correlation, and will use Marsyas for many more projects in years to come. Yay, Marsyas!

Past Developers:

Current Users:

Open Sound Control, Chuck, Percussion and Live Electroacoustic Music Adam Tindale

Affiliation : Alberta College of Art + Design

Adam Tindale is an electronic drummer, teacher, and researcher. His research combines signal processing and machine learning tools from Marsyas to classify drum events in real-time to develop a more expressive electronic drum. Adam is currently completing his Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Music, Computer Science, and Electrical Engineering under the supervision of George Tzanetakis.

Fabien Gouyon

Affiliation : INSEC Porto

I have been using Marsyas since 2007 for almost all audio processing involved in my research and that of my students.

Miguel Lopez

Affiliation : FEUP

My name is Miguel Lopes, I'm a finalist student at FEUP (Porto), and I've just finished my Masters Degree Thesis about musical genre classification - developed at INESC Porto (Fabien Gouyon was my thesis advisor). I used Marsyas to extract features from audio files and to run several classification experiments using Weka. My thesis consists on classification experiments on the Latin Music Database (presented by Silla, Koerich and Kaestner). A performance comparison between various Weka classifiers and Gaussian Mixture Models is made; there is an assessment of the influence on the classification results of the use of an artist filter, the size of the datasets used and the testing method (cross validation vs different percentages split); there is a comparison between song classification and frame classification. A detailed analysis of the LMD genres and how well each of them is defined in the context of the LMD was also made. Marsyas was used to extract the features from the LMD audio samples (using bextract).

Sensors and Robots Ajay Kapur

Affiliation : California Institute of the Arts

I have been using Marsyas to do audio feature extraction and machine learning experiments in my research in computational ethnomusicology. I have also used Marsyas in live electronic music performance, integrating multimodal sensor interfaces with custom built robotic systems. Director of Music Technology at California Institute of the Arts Professor in Sonic Arts, New Zealand School of Music

Mark Brand

Affiliation : Nelson Mandle Metropolitan University

I am lecturer in music technology at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (South Africa), and currently working toward an MScEng from Stellenbosch University under the supervision of Prof. Thomas Niesler (DSP/engineering) and Mr. Theo Herbst (new music). I am investigating, within the MIR domain, alternative music theory approaches in respect of non-western musics, particularly those found in southern Africa. I have a strong bias against the use of common music notation-based theory in this regard, and I'm thus leveraging Marsyas (with much guidance from my supervisors) in a bid to unmask an alternate theoretical framework. Before that I was a rock musician.

Student Giovanni Donati

Affiliation : Bologna University

I'm an Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering student at the Bologna University in Italy. I'm writing my thesis about Automatic Genre Recognition and Tagging for Music Social Networks. At the moment I'm also incumbent of a scholarship and I'm collaborating with an informatic company called PuzzleDev (www.puzzledev.com) to develope a system called MX-Ray. Basically will be a signal processing based features extractor conceived for web automatic tagging applications, but the final target will be to integrate it into different systems for different purposes. I'm using and will use Marsyas for all the audio processing operations for the prototype because I find it very useful and powerful.

Past Users:

Previous developers and influences

A large number of people have helped me with Marsyas. First and probably most important my advisor Perry Cook provided many ideas and almost never complained about me spending too much time writing software. Georg Essl and all the people at the sound lab of Princeton were helpful in many ways as well as being good friends.

More specifically Corrie Elder, John Forsyth, Douglas Turnbull , George Tourtellot, Ari Lazier and Andrey Ermolinskyi (all undergraduates at Princeton at the time) did interesting projects and contributed code to Marsyas-0.1.