Published Works

Project Meetings / Workshops


  • 01.-02.12.2017: Workshop in Ilmenau. In this two-day event, Ph.D. students from FAU and IDMT conducted a scientific hackday with topics related to the ISAD-project.
  • 23.--24.01.2018: Project meeting in Erlangen. This two-day event with the PIs and all project members served as a kick-off meeting of the ISAD-project.
  • 13.06.2018: Project meeting in Münchsteinach with the PIs and all project members.
  • 23.07.2018: Research stay by Christof Weiß (FAU) in Erfurt. Collaboration with Jakob Abeßer and Michael Tänzer.
  • 06.-08.08.2018: Research stay by Michael Tänzer (IDMT) in Erlangen. Collaboration with Christof Weiß and Meinard Müller.
  • 28.-29.08.2018: Project meeting in Ilmenau with the PIs and all project members.
  • 07.-09.10.20198: Research stay by Daniel Stoller (Queen Mary University of London) in Erlangen. Collaboration with Frank Zalkow and Meinard Müller.
  • 03.11.2019: Workshop on "Learning about Music with MIR" by Jakob Abeßer and Estefanía Cano offered at the WiMIR Workshop ( URL ).
  • 03.11.2019: Tutorial on "Fundamentals of Music Processing: An Introduction Using Python and Jupyter Notebooks" by Meinard Müller and Frank Zalkow offered at the International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) Conference (URL ).
  • 09.01.2020: Project Meeting in Erlangen with the PIs and all project members.
  • 01.03.-30.08.2020: Five-month research internship by Christon-Ragavan Nadar (IDMT) in Erlangen as part of his master thesis work. Collaboration with Christof Weiß, Michael Krause, and Meinard Müller.
  • 21.--22.09.2020: Project meeting (virtual format) with the PIs and all project members.

Supervised Student Theses


  • Juan Sebastián Gómez Canón: Automatic Instrument Recognition using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks. Master Thesis, Technische Universität Ilmenau, March 2018.
  • Sharvin Vittappan and Luljeta Sinani: Interpreting Deep Learning Models Applied to Audio Processing Tasks. Media Project, Technische Universität Ilmenau, January 2019.
  • Leo Brütting: Hierarchical Tonal Analysis of Music Signals. Bachelor Thesis, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), March 2019.
  • Julian Reck: Boundary Detection in Music Recordings Using Deep Learning Techniques. Master Thesis, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), July 2019.
  • Juan José Villamar Villarreal and Purvaj Piyush Vaidya: Music Segmentation using Siamese Networks. Media Project, Technische Universität Ilmenau, December 2019.
  • Matthias Nowakowski: Deep Learning-Architekturen für die Transkription elektroakustischer Musik. Bachelor Thesis, Hochschule Düsseldorf, January 2020. The results of this thesis were published at the 14th International Symposium on Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research (CMMR) obtaining the best paper award.
  • David Kopyto: Graph-Based Techniques for Music Structure Analysis of Audio Recordings. Master Thesis, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), March 2020.
  • Christon Ragavan Nadar: Multitask Learning for Beat Detection and Chord Recognition in Music. Master Thesis, Technische Universität Ilmenau, August 2020.
  • Jaydeep Chauhan and Prateek Pillai: Polyphonic Instrument Recognition in Jazz Recordings. Media Project, Technische Universität Ilmenau, November 2020.
  • Anil Vishnu and Hassan Anwar: Instrument Recognition in Multitimbral Sections. Media Project, Technische Universität Ilmenau, March 2021.

Sources / Demonstrators