Dr Johan Pauwels
Lecturer in Audio Signal Processing
School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science
Queen Mary University of London
Queen Mary University of London
Research
music information retrieval, machine learning for audio, audio signal processing, binaural audio
Interests
Johan’s aim is to make machines understand music to the level of a trained professional, such that new tools can be developed to assist musicians performing live or in the studio, listeners navigating large music collections and learners studying music. To that end, he uses a combination of machine learning, signal processing, data science and music theory. In recent years, he has been working on narrowing the gap between academic research and user-centric applications, web-based music services and the personalisation of spatial and immersive audio.Publications
Publications of specific relevance to the Centre for Multimodal AI2024
I can listen but cannot read: An evaluation of two-tower multimodal systems for instrument recognitionVasilakis I, Bittner R and Pauwels J
25th International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) San Francisco, CA, USA 10 Nov 2024 - 14 Nov 2024.
10-11-2024
Multi-Signal Informed Attention for Beat and Downbeat DetectionBolt J, Pauwels J and Fazekas G
2024 IEEE 5th International Symposium on the Internet of Sounds (IS2). vol. 00, 1-7.
02-10-2024
Musician-AI partnership mediated by emotionally-aware smart musical instrumentsTurchet L, Stefani D and Pauwels J
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Elsevier vol. 191, 103340-103340.
23-07-2024
Time-of-arrival Estimation and Phase Unwrapping of Head-related Transfer Functions With Integer Linear ProgrammingYu C-Y, Pauwels J and Fazekas G
Audio Engineering Society 156th Convention Madrid, Spain 15 Jun 2024 - 17 Jun 2024.
15-06-2024
2023
Polar Manhattan Displacement: measuring tonal distances between chords based on intervallic contentMiller J, Pauwels J and Sandler M
24th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference Milan, Italy 5 Nov 2023 - 9 Nov 2023.
04-11-2023
The SONICOM HRTF DatasetEngel I, Daugintis R, Vicente T, Hogg AOT, Pauwels J, Tournier AJ and Picinali L
Journal of The Audio Engineering Society, Audio Engineering Society vol. 71 (5), 241-253.
09-05-2023
On the relevance of the differences between HRTF measurement setups for machine learningPauwels J and Picinali L
2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2023).
05-05-2023
“Give me happy pop songs in C major and with a fast tempo”: A vocal assistant for content-based queries to online music repositoriesTurchet L, Zanotto C and Pauwels J
International Journal of Human Computer Studies vol. 173
01-05-2023
The Hartufo toolkit for machine learning with HRTF dataPauwels J
International Conference on Spatial and Immersive Audio 2023., 218-229.
01-01-2023
2022
Music Emotion Recognition: Intention of Composers-Performers Versus Perception of Musicians, Non-Musicians, and Listening MachinesTurchet L and Pauwels J
Ieee/Acm Transactions On Audio Speech and Language Processing vol. 30, 305-316.
01-01-2022
2021
The WASABI Dataset: Cultural, Lyrics and Audio Analysis Metadata About 2 Million Popular Commercially Released SongsBuffa M, Cabrio E, Fell M, Gandon F, Giboin A, Hennequin R, Michel F, Pauwels J, Pellerin G, Tikat M and Winckler M
In The Semantic Web, Springer Nature 515-531.
01-01-2021
2020
Cloud-smart Musical Instrument InteractionsTurchet L, Pauwels J, Fischione C and Fazekas G
Acm Transactions On Internet of Things vol. 1 (3), 1-29.
14-07-2020
2019
20 Years of Automatic Chord Recognition from AudioPauwels J, O'Hanlon K, Gómez E and Sandler M
Proceedings of the 20th Conference of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) Delft, Netherlands 4 Nov 2019 - 8 Nov 2019.
07-11-2019
Guitar String Separation Using Non-Negative Matrix Factorization and Factor DeconvolutionSenvaityte D, Pauwels J and Sandler M
Audio Mostly 2019.
18-09-2019
Finding new practice material through chord-based exploration of a large music cataloguePauwels J and Sandler M
Proceedings of the 16th Sound and Music Conference Málaga, Spain 28 May 2019 - 31 May 2019.
31-05-2019
A web-based system for suggesting new practice material to music learners based on chord contentPauwels J and Sandler MB
2nd Workshop on Intelligent Music Interfaces for Listening and Creation 20 Mar 2019. vol. 2327
20-03-2019
2018
Exploring Real-time Visualisations to Support Chord Learning with a Large Music CollectionPauwels J, Xambo Sedo A, Roma G, Barthet M and Fazekas G
4th Web Audio Conference (WAC) Berlin, Germany 19 Sep 2018 - 21 Sep 2018.
19-09-2018
pywebaudioplayer: Bridging the gap between audio processing code and attractive visualisations based on web technologyPauwels J and Sandler M
4th Web Audio Conference (WAC) Berlin, Germany 19 Sep 2018 - 21 Sep 2018.
19-09-2018
Recommending songs to music learners based on chord contentPauwels J, Fazekas G and Sandler M
2018 Joint Workshop on Machine Learning for Music Stockholm, Sweden 14 Jul 2018.
14-07-2018
Jam with Jamendo: Querying a Large Music Collection by Chords from a Learner's PerspectiveXambo A, Pauwels J, Roma G, Barthet M and Fazekas G
2018 CONFERENCE ON INTERACTION WITH SOUND (AUDIO MOSTLY): SOUND IN IMMERSION AND EMOTION (AM'18).
01-01-2018
Guitarset: A dataset for guitar transcriptionXi Q, Bittner RM, Pauwels J, Ye X and Bello JP
Proceedings of the 19th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, ISMIR 2018., 453-460.
01-01-2018
2017
Guitar-set preview: a dataset for guitar transcription and moreXi Q, Bittner RM, PAUWELS J, EWERT S and Bello JP
18th Conference of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR): Late Breaking/Demo Session Suzhou, China 23 Oct 2017 - 27 Dec 2017.
23-10-2017
Improved template-based chord recognition using the CRP featureO'Hanlon KO, Ewert S, Pauwels J and Sandler M
2017 IEEE Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing.
19-06-2017
Confidence Measures and Their Applications in Music Labelling Systems Based on Hidden Markov ModelsPauwels J, O hanlon K, Fazekas G and Sandler M
Proc. 18th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR), Oct. 23-27, Suzhou, China., 279-279.
01-01-2017
2016
Chord RecognitionPeeters G and Pauwels J
In Music Data Analysis: Foundations and Applications, Taylor & Francis Inc Editors: Weihs C, Jannach D, Vatolkin I and Rudolph G.
07-11-2016
Exploiting prior knowledge during automatic key and chord estimation from musical audioPAUWELS J
Editors: Martens J-P and Leman M.
24-03-2016
2014
Combining Musicological Knowledge About Chords and Keys in a Simultaneous Chord and Local Key Estimation SystemPauwels J and Martens J-P
Journal of New Music Research, Taylor & Francis vol. 43 (3), 318-330.
03-07-2014
On comparative statistics for labelling tasks: what can we learn from MIREX ACE 2013?Burgoyne JA, de Haas WB and Pauwels J
15th Conference of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR)., 525-530.
01-01-2014
2013
Segmenting music through the joint estimation of keys, chords and structural boundariesPauwels J and Peeters G
Proceedings of the 21st ACM international conference on Multimedia., 741-744.
21-10-2013
EVALUATING AUTOMATICALLY ESTIMATED CHORD SEQUENCESPauwels J and Peeters G
2013 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing., 749-753.
01-05-2013
Combining harmony-based and novelty-based approaches for structural segmentationPauwels J, Kaiser F and Peeters G
14th Conference of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR)., 138-143.
01-01-2013
2011
The influence of chord duration modeling on chord and local key extractionPauwels J, Martens J-P and Leman M
2011 10th International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications and Workshops. vol. 2, 136-141.
01-12-2011
MODELING MUSICOLOGICAL INFORMATION AS TRIGRAMS IN A SYSTEM FOR SIMULTANEOUS CHORD AND LOCAL KEY EXTRACTIONPauwels J, Martens J-P and Leman M
2011 IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing., 1-6.
01-09-2011
Improving the key extraction performance of a simultaneous local key and chord estimation systemPauwels J, Martens J-P and Leman M
IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME).
01-01-2011
2010
Integrating musicological knowledge into a probabilistic framework for chord and key extractionPauwels J and Martens JP
128th Audio Engineering Society Convention 2010. vol. 2, 717-725.
01-12-2010
2008
A novel chroma representation of polyphonic music based on multiple pitch tracking techniquesVarewyck M, Pauwels J and Martens J-P
Proceedings of the 16th ACM international conference on Multimedia., 667-670.
26-10-2008
Grants
Grants of specific relevance to the Centre for Multimodal AIAIM CDT Internship with stem.tech: James BoltJohan Pauwels
£11,850 Ashdust UK Ltd
16-09-2024 - 15-12-2024