Akira MAEZAWA, Ph.D. (Informatics) / He has graduated from Kyoto University in 2011, after which he has joined Yamaha Corporation. In 2015, he completed his PhD from Kyoto University while working full-time at Yamaha. Since joining Yamaha, he has worked on music audio analysis techniques like beat, chord and music structure, and music synchronization and signal processing based on Bayesian inference. He, and projects which he has been the main tech researcher, has received Research and Engineering Award from the Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ), Yamashita Research Award, IPSJ SIG Recommended PhD Thesis, Cannes LIONS Entertainment Lions for Music, STIs for SDGs Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Award, and others.
前澤 陽, 博士（情報学） / 2011年，京都大学大学院情報学研究科の修士課程終了後，ヤマハ（株）に入社．2013年，同大学院博士後期課程に社会人で入学．2015年修了（情報学）．入社後，ビート・コード・楽曲構造等の解析技術の研究開発及び，ベイズ統計に基づく音楽同期や信号処理の研究に従事．多くの製品へと発展した．その後，自動伴奏に関する研究に従事．他，楽器と周辺分野の機器同士の通信規格の提案，多言語自動翻訳，東京藝大と共同で楽器演奏のバリアフリーを実現する音楽技術に関するプロジェクト等にも従事．研究会推薦博士論文．研究成果では情報処理技術研究開発賞, 山下記念研究賞, Cannes LIONS Entertainment Lions for Music SILVER, STI for SDGs 文部科学大臣賞等, 多数受賞．情報処理学会, 音響学会，ACM各会員．
E-mail: akira.maezawa __at__ gmail.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/zawazaw
Steering committee for IPSJ Special Interest Group on Music and Computer (SIGMUS)
Reviewer for IPSJ, IEEE, ISMIR and book chapters
2011-Present - Yamaha Corporation. Worked on research and development of music information retrieval, statistical audio signal processing, and other works related to machine learning.
2013-2015 - Ph. D. in Informatics, Kyoto University. Worked on Bayesian treatment of music alignment, including audio alignment, audio-to-score alignment, audio part mixture alignment (a new kind of audio alignment where two signals play some non-disjoint "subsets" to a common piece of music). I also worked on application of dereverberation to alignment, and application of Bayesian score following to informed source separation.
2009-2011 - M.S. in Informatics, Kyoto University. Worked on Bayesian audio-to-score alignment, violin fingering inference, music retrieval system based on "conducting" the user's favorite interpretation, a cyclic criterion to multiple audio alignment.
2008-2009 - Research Student, Kyoto University. Worked on playing style inference for violin, and bowed string estimation for violin.
2004-2008 - B.S. in Electrical Engineering, State University of Binghamton (Summa cum laude). In the thesis, we worked on implementation of acoustic beamformer for an embedded DSP platform.