演讲人：Prof. Xavier Serra
时间：2015 年 5 月 17 日，14:00-16:00
地点：张江校区第二教学楼 103
联系人：李伟 (weili-fudan@fudan.edu.cn)
Abstract
In this talk, Prof. Xavier Serra, one of the most famous researchers in the field of computer music, will give a comprehensive introduction of the history, current situation, and future of music technology.
Music Technology Group
The Music Technology Group (MTG) of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, part of its Department of Information and Communication Technologies, is specialized in sound and music computing. With more than 50 researchers coming from different and complementary disciplines, the MTG carries out research on topics such as audio signal processing, sound and music description, musical interfaces, sound and music communities, and performance modeling. The MTG combines expertise in engineering disciplines such as Signal Processing, Machine Learning, Semantic Technologies, and Human Computer Interaction, to apply them in sound and music related problems.
The MTG wants to contribute to the improvement of the information and communication technologies related to sound and music, carrying out competitive research at the international level and at the same time transferring its results to society. To that goal, the MTG aims at finding a balance between basic and applied research while promoting interdisciplinary approaches that incorporate knowledge from both scientific/technological and humanistic/artistic disciplines.
The MTG was established in 1994 by its current director, Dr. Xavier Serra, and since then it has been very active at national and international levels in educational, research and dissemination activities related to music technology.
Biography
Xavier Serra is Associate Professor of the Department of Information and Communication Technologies and Director of the Music Technology Group at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. After a multidisciplinary academic education he obtained a PhD in Computer Music from Stanford University in 1989 with a dissertation on the spectral processing of musical sounds that is considered a key reference in the field. His research interests cover the analysis, description and synthesis of sound and music signals, with a balance between basic and applied research and approaches from both scientific/technological and humanistic/artistic disciplines. Dr. Serra is very active in promoting initiatives in the field of Sound and Music Computing at the local and international levels, being involved in the editorial board of a number of journals and conferences and giving lectures on current and future challenges of the field. He has recently been awarded an Advanced Grant of the European Research Council to carry out the project CompMusic aimed at promoting multicultural approaches in music computing research.
