2015 Seminar
- Sebastian Stober, Avital Sternin, Adrian M. Owen, Jessica A. Grahn: Similarity and feature learning for EEG recordings of music perception and imagination
- Naresh N. Vempala & Frank A. Russo: Understanding the role of audio features in music emotion recognition
- Dakota Killpack: A correlated topic model of structural schemata in popular music
- Michael Barone, Robert Rawlins, Tasmine VandenBerg, Matthew
Woolhouse: Digital music consumption with respect to socio-cultural
development - Frank A. Russo & Naresh N. Vempala: A new cognitive measure of melodic similarity
- Michael Barone, Kurt DaCosta, James Renwick, Matthew Woolhouse: Grail: A scalable music metadata collection interface
2014 Seminar
- Keynote: Doug Eck, Google Research – Recommendation in a streaming music service: What do users really want? [pdf of slides]
2013 Seminar
- Keynote: David Temperley, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester – Mutual Inspiration: Bringing together music cognition and MIR
- Kenote: Marcus Pearce, Queen Mary, University of London – Predictive processing of music: combining insights from Cognitive Science and MIR
- John A. Burgoyne & Henkjan Honing: Does MIR need to be more catchy?
- Norman D. Cook, Akifumi Kitamura, & Takashi X. Fujisawa: Visual display of the acoustical properties of harmony
- Michael Schutz: Computer aided analysis of musical corpora
- Oriol Nieto, Morwaread Farbood, & Juan Pablo Bello: A perceptually based evaluation of music boundaries
- Valorie N. Salimpoor et al.: How the brain processes new music: Implications for understanding individual preferences
- Naresh Vempala & Glen Kappel: Neural network models of musical emotion: Collaboration between the SMART lab and WaveDNA
- Jessica Thompson: Reconstructing musical audio features from continuous single-trial EEG
- Johanna Devaney: Cognitively motivated representations of symbolic music
- Poster Talks
2012 Seminar
- Keynote: Michael Casey, Bregman Media Labs, Dartmouth College – Mapping Mental Representations of Music with fMRI and MIR
- Keynote: George Tzanetakis, Computer Science, University of Victoria – Blending the Physical and the Virtual: Two Cases of Embodied Musicianship
- Naresh Vempala, SMART Lab, Ryerson University – Applying Computational Modelling Approaches to Music Emotion
- Frank Russo, SMART Lab, Ryerson University – Building Bridges Between Music Cognition and Music Informatics
- Dave Beckford/Glen Kappel, WaveDNA – On crossover toolkits for music production and music informatics: Methods for navigating rhythmic possibilities in a beat creation context
- Matthew Woolhouse, Digital Music Lab, McMaster University – Drawing Inferences from Music-Download Metadata
- Steven Livingstone, SMART Lab, Ryerson University – Changing Musical Emotion with a Computational Rule System
- Poster Talks
2011 Seminar
- Geraint Wiggins, Queen Mary, University of London – Whats cognitive about music information retrieval? – Part 1
StudioFeed.com – Click here to listen to a 2011 podcast featuring CogMIR, and other research at the SMART lab