Research Projects
All Active Projects
Music Performance Assessment and Feedback
2024-2025
Prof Simon Dixon (PI), Dr Emmanouil Benetos (CI)
Industry/contract research, £250,000
High Resolution Guitar Transcription
2024-2024
Prof Simon Dixon (PI)
Innovate UK ICURe Programme DSMAR24-06 / 521975189, £2,500
Music Production Style Transfer (ProStyle)
2024-2025
Prof Josh Reiss (PI)
Innovate UK Creative Catalyst: AI in the Music Industry, £74,786
Co-creator for songwriters & producers: generative AI Creator tools to boost efficiency of the creative process
2024-2025
Prof Mark Sandler (PI), Dr Mathieu Barthet (CI), Dr Haim Dubossarsky (CI)
Innovate UK Collaborative AI Solutions, £320,887
StudioSync: AI productivity tools for record labels in the management of musical recordings and creator metadata
2024-2025
Prof Mark Sandler (PI), Dr Mathieu Barthet (CI)
Innovate UK Collaborative AI Solutions, £304,918
Fine-grained music source separation with deep learning models
2024-2025
Dr Lin Wang (PI), Prof Mark Sandler (CI)
Innovate UK Creative Catalyst: AI in the Music Industry, £48,144
Style classification of podcasts using audio
2024-2026
Dr Emmanouil Benetos (PI)
Spotify Ltd, PhD studentship, £33,000
Resource-efficient Machine Listening
2023-2024
Dr Emmanouil Benetos (PI)
RAEng/Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship LTRF2223-19-106, £52,455
Modelling Jazz Piano: Symbolic Music Generation via Large-scale Automatic Transcription
2023-2025
Prof Simon Dixon (PI)
Yamaha Corporation, PhD studentship, £60,000
New Methodologies for Efficient and Controllable Music Generation
2023-2027
Dr George Fazekas (PI)
Sony Europe B.V., PhD studentship, £150,000
Beyond Supervised Learning for Musical Audio
2023-2027
Dr George Fazekas (PI)
Universal Music Group International Limited, PhD studentship, £61,268
Sensing the Forest: Let the Forest Speak using the Internet of Things, Acoustic Ecology and Creative AI
2023-2025
Dr Anna Xambó (PI), Dr Peter Batchelor (CI, De Montfort University), Dr Krishna Nama Manjunatha (CI, De Montfort University), Dr Michael Bell (CI, Forest Research), Dr Georgios Xenakis (CI, Forest Research)
AHRC Grant AH/X011585/1, £207,479
Performance Rendering for Music Generation Systems
2022-2026
Prof Simon Dixon (PI)
DAACI Ltd, PhD studentship, £140,000
Bridging the Gap - visually impaired and sighted music producers working side by side
2021-2024
Prof Franziska Schroeder (PI, QUB), Prof Andrew McPherson (CI, QMUL)
AHRC Grant AH/V011340/1, £576,879 (total), £174,448 (QMUL)
Bela / Royal Academy of Engineering Senior Research Fellow in Embedded Music Computing
2021-2026
Prof Andrew McPherson (PI)
RAEng Senior Research Fellowship, £208,776
Centre for Doctoral Training in Data-informed Audience-centric Media Engineering (DAME)
2021-2024
Prof Mark Sandler (PI), Prof Andrea Cavallaro (CI), Prof Pat Healey (CI), Dr Gareth Tyson (CI), and Dr Charalampos Saitis (CI)
, £177,000 (standard stipend) + £27,000 (contribution from BBC)
Designing new musical technologies for older adults' wellbeing
2021-2025
Dr Jennifer MacRitchie (PI, Sheffield), Prof Andrew McPherson (CI), and 2 others
UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship, £946,672 (total), £24,879 (QMUL)
GraphNEx: Graph Neural Networks for Explainable Artificial Intelligence
2021-2024
Prof Andrea Cavallaro (QMUL PI), Dr Emmanouil Benetos (CI)
CHIST-ERA / EPSRC grant EP/V062107/1, £293,434
Smart Channel Strip using Neural Audio Processing
2021-2025
Dr George Fazekas (PI)
Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH, AIM CDT PhD studentship, £109,649
Emotion-driven audio-visual game design using AI
2020-2025
Dr Mathieu Barthet (PI)
OVOMIND SA, PhD studentship, £33,500
Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Data Centric Engineering
2020-2028
Prof Eram Rizvi (PI), Prof Mark Sandler (CI), Prof Nick Bryan-Kinns (CI)
EPSRC Training Grant EP/V519935/1, £1,629,373
Industry-scale machine listening for music and audio data
2020-2024
Prof Simon Dixon (PI)
Spotify Ltd, AIM CDT PhD studentship, £108,000
UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Artificial Intelligence and Music (AIM)
2019-2027
Prof Simon Dixon (PI), Dr Mathieu Barthet (CI), Dr Nick Bryan-Kinns (CI), Dr Gyorgy Fazekas (CI), Prof Mark Sandler (CI), Dr Andrew McPherson (CI), Dr Emmanouil Benetos (CI)
EPSRC Grant EP/S022694/1, £6,240,207
Optical music recognition using deep learning
2019-2024
Dr George Fazekas (PI)
Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH, AIM CDT PhD studentship, £109,649
Deep learning and multi-modal models for the music industry
2019-2023
Dr George Fazekas (PI)
Universal Music Group International Limited, AIM CDT PhD studentship, £54,000
All Completed Projects
Analysing User Activity for Improving Recommendations in Streaming Platforms
2023-2023
Dr Charalampos Saitis (PI)
BBC R&D, PhD internship, £9,834
Investigating mental models of DAW software use by visually-impaired musicians
2022-2023
Prof Andrew McPherson (PI)
Ableton AG, Contract research, £97,000
Deep learning technologies for multi-instrument automatic music transcription
2022-2023
Dr Emmanouil Benetos (PI), Prof Simon Dixon (CI)
Huawei Technologies Düsseldorf, Contract research, £252,000
New Directions in Digital Jazz Studies: Music Information Retrieval and AI Support for Jazz Scholarship in Digital Archives
2021-2024
Dr Tillman Weyde (City, PI), Prof Simon Dixon (CI), plus two others
AHRC grant AH/V009699/1, £50,845 (QMUL), £202,566 (total)
Seeing Music: An interactive digital exhibit on sensory variation and the cross-sensory experience of music
2021-2022
Dr Charalampos Saitis (PI), Dr Christine Cuskley (Newcastle, CI)
QMUL Centre for Public Engagement Large Grant, £9,783
Unsupervised detection of sound events for complex audio
2021-2023
Dr Emmanouil Benetos (PI), Dr Yanxiong Li (SCUT, CI)
Royal Society International Exchanges grant IEC/NSFC/201382, £3,800
JADE: Joint Academic Data science Endeavour
2020-2023
Wesley Gavin Armour (PI, Oxford), Prof Mark Sandler (CI, QMUL), plus 24 others
EPSRC Grant EP/T022205/1, £5,539,933
Metaphors we listen with: the neural correlates of timbral brightness investigated by pitch-timbre interference and fMRI
2020-2022
Dr Charalampos Saitis (PI), Dr Zachary Wallmark (CI, University of Oregon, US)
British Academy, BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants scheme, SRG1920/101673, £10,000
Perceptual Aspects of Broadcast Audio Mixing for the Hearing Impaired
2019-2022
Prof Josh Reiss (PI)
ICASE PhD studentship 2161145, £83,300 (standard stipend) + £27,600 (contribution from BBC)
Perceptual end to end learning for music understanding
2019-2023
Dr George Fazekas (PI)
MUSIC Tribe Brands UK Limited, AIM CDT PhD studentship, £27,000