Friday, September 12th 2025
Isola delle Femmine – Palermo (Italy)
NEW! The technical program is now available!
Friday, September 12th 2025
Isola delle Femmine – Palermo (Italy)
Satellite workshop – EUSIPCO 2025
On behalf of our Organizing Committee, we extend a warm welcome to the first edition of Frontiers in Audio and Music Technology: from Transcription to Immersive Sound. Taking place as a satellite workshop of the 33rd European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2025), FAMTech will offer an opportunity for experts, researchers, and practitioners to explore the latest developments across a range of topics in audio and music technology.
This workshop is organized as part of the European-funded project REPERTORIUM, which aims to develop innovative technologies to preserve, analyze, and make accessible Europe’s rich musical heritage. The project combines expertise from musicology, signal processing, machine learning, and cultural heritage to address challenges such as digital transcription of historical music scores, immersive audio streaming, and interactive applications for music performance and education.
FAMTech will feature paper presentations, discussion panels, and networking opportunities, creating an engaging environment for sharing novel research, fostering collaboration, and exploring innovative tools and methodologies. We look forward to your participation!
We invite submissions on a wide range of topics related to the REPERTORIUM project, including but not limited to:
Optical Music Recognition (OMR): advances in the transcription and analysis of historical music scores, enabling digital preservation and accessibility.
Sound Source Separation and Minus-One Applications: deep learning approaches to isolate orchestra instruments from mixtures, enabling interactive and educational applications such as ”play-along” experiences with orchestras.
Streaming and Immersive Audio Technologies: real-time spatial audio streaming for orchestral performances, enhancing hybrid and remote music experiences.
Sound Field Reconstruction and Virtual Acoustic Navigation: technologies to digitally recreate and explore the acoustic environment of concert performances, offering new ways to experience musical spaces.
Cross-disciplinary Approaches: integrating musicology, data science, and engineering to develop innovative tools and methodologies for the study and preservation of music.
We also welcome submissions describing in-progress works or non-novel contributions that advance the state of the art or present preliminary results that could benefit from early feedback.
For more details, please refer to our Call for Papers.
Jose J. Valero-Mas received an M.Sc. in Telecommunications Engineering from the Miguel Hernández University (2012), an M.Sc. in Sound and Music Computing from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (2013), and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Alicante (2017). After three years in industry in which he worked as data analyst and applied scientist, he was a postdoctoral researcher from 2020 to 2023 in the University of Alicante, the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, and the Queen Mary University of Londn. Since 2023 he has been an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at the University of Alicante. His main research interests lie in the intersection between Machine Learning, Music Information Retrieval, and Cultural Heritage Preservation. In this context, he has actively worked in the Automatic Music Transcription field, initially with a focus on interactive approaches for user-assisted frameworks and more recently on score-level transcription via deep neural-based holistic models. He has also contributed to the Optical Music Recognition and Performance Difficulty Estimation fields through different collaborations. Finally, he is also currently working in the preservation and transcription of low-resource languages via neural models.
The workshop will take place on Friday, September 12th 2025, from 13:30 to 17:50, in Kemonia room. Presenting authors will each have 20 minutes for their presentations, including questions and answers. All authors must submit their slides (in PowerPoint or PDF format) before their session's scheduled start time. The workshop room will be equipped with laptop computers.
13:30 - 13:50 • Opening and Introduction:
Introduction to the workshop and the REPERTORIUM European project
Presentation of the main themes and objectives of the event
14:50 - 14:30 • Invited Talk:
Keynote by Professor Jose J. Valero-Mas (Universidad de Alicante)
Q&A with the audience
14:30 - 15:30 • Session 1 – Optical Music Recognition and Digital Transcription:
Classifying East Asian Zither Instruments Using Spectral and Temporal Audio Features
Kim Ngo and Marina Bosi
Semi-Automated Indexing of Medieval Chant Manuscripts with OMR and Pairwise Alignment
Pablo Cabanas-Molero, Jaime Garcia-Martinez, Antonio J. Munoz-Montoro, Julio J. Carabias-Orti and Pedro Vera-Candeas
From Manuscript to Music Score: Case Study in Automating Medieval Music Transcription
Adrián Roselló, Eliseo Fuentes-Martínez, David Rizo and Jorge Calvo-Zaragoza
15:30 - 15:50 • Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:00 • Session 2 – Sound Source Separation and Spatial Applications:
A Virtual Reality Framework for Testing Spatial Audio Algorithms
Paolo Ostan, Francesca Del Gaudio, Federico Miotello, Mirco Pezzoli and Fabio Antonacci
Binaural Rendering in Real Time and Spatial Calibration for Multiple Higher-Order Microphones
Paolo Ostan, Federico Miotello, Mirco Pezzoli, Alberto Bernardini and Fabio Antonacci
Orchestral Music Source Separation using the Mixture-to-Mixture Paradigm in Multichannel Recordings
Jaime Garcia-Martinez, Pablo Cabanas-Molero, Antonio J. Munoz-Montoro, Julio J. Carabias-Orti and Pedro Vera-Candeas
17:00 - 17:50 • Final Session – Panel Discussion and Closing Remarks:
Interactive panel discussion on the future of technologies for musical heritage, with a focus on sound source separation, AI, and digital preservation
Final remarks and farewell
Innovative Technologies for Musical Heritage: The REPERTORIUM Project is a satellite workshop of the 33rd European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2025), organized as part of the European-funded project REPERTORIUM. Attendance at the workshop is provided at no cost with EUSIPCO registration. Otherwise, a workshop-only fee of 100 EUR applies.
Important dates
Paper submission deadline: June 1st, 2025 June 15th, 2025
Acceptance notification: June 1st, 2025 July 1st, 2025
Final submission: July 15th, 2025 August 1st, 2025
The paper submission process for the workshop will be handled via EasyChair: click here to submit your paper!
The organizers will independently oversee the peer review process, adhering to the established scientific standards and practices that guarantee a fair evaluation of each submission. A panel of reviewers will be appointed by the organizing committee based on their demonstrated expertise in relevant research areas. Any updates regarding the ongoing review process will be posted on this website and communicated via email.
Please note that, although accepted papers will be presented during the workshop and benefit from an audience of peers and professionals, they will not be included in the official EUSIPCO proceedings.