Ramires, António (Date of defense: 2023-02-08)
Repurposing audio material to create new music - also known as sampling - was a foundation of electronic music and is a fundamental component of this practice. Currently, large-scale databases of audio ...
Tovstogan, Philip (Date of defense: 2022-07-12)
Music recommendation systems (RecSys) are integral to modern music streaming services. While there is much research on many aspects of RecSys, there is not enough research on exploration and discovery ...
Won, Minz (Date of defense: 2022-07-01)
The explosion of digital music has dramatically changed our music consumption behavior. Massive digital music libraries are now available through streaming platforms. Since the amount of information ...
Fonseca, Eduardo (Date of defense: 2021-12-01)
The automatic recognition of sound events has gained attention in the past few years, motivated by emerging applications in fields such as healthcare, smart homes, or urban planning. When the work for ...
Favory, Xavier (Date of defense: 2021-03-04)
Capturing sounds on a recording medium to enable their preservation and reproduction started to be possible during the industrial revolution of the 19th century, originally achieved through mechanic and ...