Program

Program

10:00 - Opening Remarks

10:10 - Session 1

• Soundtracks of Our Lives: How Age Influences Musical Preferences 

Arsen Matej Golubovikj, Bruce Ferwerda, Alan Said, and Marko Tkalcic

• Afropop Locally and Globally: Top Artists, Countries and Microgenres (article)

Archana Anandakrishnan and Aaron Carter-Enyi

• Keynote 1 - Local Music is Important 

Doug Turnbull

12:35 - Lunch Break

14:00 - Session 2

• Conditioning of variational autoencoder by user traits for item recommendation (article)

Yuuki Tachioka

• Leveraging Negative Signals with Self-Attention for Sequential Music Recommendation (article)

Pavan Seshadri and Peter Knees 

• Sound-and-Image-informed Music Artwork Generation Using Text-to-Image Models (article)

Alexander Williams, Stefan Lattner, and Mathieu Barthet

• Popularity Degradation Bias in Local Music Recommendation (article)

April Trainor and Douglas Turnbull

15:20 - Coffee Break

16:05 - Session 3

• Strategies for Mitigating Artist Gender Bias in Music Recommendation: A Simulation Study (article)

Christine Bauer and Andres Ferraro

• Keynote 2 - What is a music recommender system, how do culture and society get into it, and how can it be oriented to the public good?

Georgina Born

17:20 - Closing Remarks

* Times are in SGT (UTC +8)