Program

Program Summary

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  • 9:00 - 9:10am: Welcome Remarks

  • 9:10 - 10:20am: Oral Presentations

  • 10:20 - 11:00am: Poster Session

  • 11:00 - 12:20pm: Oral Presentations

  • 12:20 - 1:00pm: Lunch Break

  • 1:00 - 2:10pm: Oral Presentations

  • 2:10 - 2:50pm: Poster Session

  • 2:50 - 4:00pm: Oral Presentations

  • 4:00-4:10pm: Closing Remarks

Invited presentations are 30 minutes each, accepted presentations are 20 minutes.

9:00 - 9:10am: Welcome Remarks

9:10 - 10:20am: Oral Presentations

Chair: Katherine Kinnaird

Graph Neural Networks for Reasoning over Multimodal Content

Jure Leskovec (Invited Speaker)Stanford University and Pinterest

Novel Audio Embeddings for Personalized Recommendations on Newly Released Tracks

Beici Liang, Zonghan Cai, Quan Chen, Yifan Li and Minwei GuTencent Music Entertainment[PDF]

Musical Word Embedding: Bridging the Gap between Listening Contexts and Music

Seungheon Doh, Jongpil Lee, Tae Hong Park and Juhan NamKorea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and New York University (NYU)[PDF]

11:00 - 12:20pm: Oral Presentations

Chair: Fabien Gouyon

Graphs for music analysis : two examples

Delia Fano Yela (Invited Speaker)Chordify[PDF]

Deep Active Learning Toward Crisis-related Tweets Classification

Shiva Ebrahimi and Xuan GuoUniversity of North Texas[PDF]

The Unsung Heroes of Music Recommendation: an Essay

Matthias Mauch (Invited Speaker)Apple[PDF]

12:20 - 1:00pm: Lunch Break

1:00 - 2:10pm: Oral Presentations

Chair: Yves Raimond

Beyond Being Accurate: Solving Real-World Recommendation Problems

Ed Chi (Invited Speaker)Google Research

Character-focused Video Thumbnail Retrieval

Shervin Ardeshir, Nagendra Kamath and Hossein TaghaviNetflix[PDF]

HitPredict: Using Spotify Data to Predict Billboard Hits

Elena Georgieva, Marcella Suta and Nicholas BurtonStanford University[PDF]

2:50 - 4:00pm: Oral Presentations

Chair: Oriol Nieto

Hit Song Prediction

Eva Zangerle (Invited Speaker)University of Innsbruck[PDF]

I know why you like this movie: Interpretable Efficient Multimodal Recommender

Barbara Rychalska, Dominika Basaj, Jacek Dąbrowski and Michał DanilukSynerise and Warsaw University of Technology[PDF]

Content-based Music Similarity with Siamese Networks

Joseph Cleveland, Derek Cheng, Michael Zhou, Thorsten Joachims and Douglas TurnbullIthaca College and Cornell University[PDF]

Poster Presentations

Bach or Mock? A Grading Function for Chorales in the Style of J.S. Bach

Alexander Fang, Alisa Liu, Prem Seetharaman and Bryan PardoNorthwestern University[PDF] [Poster]

Incorporating Music Knowledge in Continual Dataset Augmentation for Music Generation

Alisa Liu, Alexander Fang, Gaëtan Hadjeres, Prem Seetharaman and Bryan PardoNorthwestern University and Sony CSL[PDF] [Poster]

Artist biases in collaborative filtering for music recommendation

Andres Ferraro, Jae Ho Jeon, Biho Kim, Xavier Serra and Dmitry BogdanovUniversitat Pompeu Fabra and Kakao Corp[PDF] [Poster]

Discovering X Degrees of Keyword Separation in a Fine Arts Collection

Arthur FlexerJohannes Kepler University Linz[PDF] [Poster]

Generative Modelling for Controllable Audio Synthesis of Expressive Piano Performance

Hao Hao Tan, Yin-Jyun Luo and Dorien HerremansSingapore University of Technology and Design and Institute of High Performance Computing, A*STAR[PDF] [Poster]

Web Interface for Exploration of Latent and Tag Spaces in Music Auto-Tagging

Philip Tovstogan, Xavier Serra and Dmitry BogdanovUniversitat Pompeu Fabra[PDF] [Poster]

Cosine Similarity of Multimodal Content Vectors for TV Programmes

Saba Nazir, Taner Cagali, Chris Newell and Mehrnoosh SadrzadehUniversity College London, Queen Mary University of London, and British Broadcasting Company[PDF] [Poster]

Self-Correcting Non-Chronological Autoregressive Music Generation

Wayne Chi, Prachi Kumar, Suri Yaddanapudi, Rahul Suresh and Umut IsikAmazon Web Services[PDF] [Poster]