Le 12 mars 2018 au CNAM, nous aurons le plaisir de recevoir Cynthia C. S. Liem (Ph. D.) pour un exposé intitulé :
« Realizing richer exploration of multimedia archives ».
Le séminaire aura lieu à 16h30 en salle 33.1.19.
Voici le résumé proposé par l’oratrice (en anglais) :
Making people discover what was not on their radar yet has always been a main motivation for my work. In this talk, I will speak about my past and current research in this area, which—given my dual background in computer science and music—mostly was conducted in the music domain.
My talk will feature a discussion of my PhD research, which focused on digital analysis and retrieval techniques for interpretational aspects of music: comparative performance characteristics and connections between music and non-musical media. While mainstream research on automatic music description strongly focused on automatically labeling objective, library-style properties, human interpretation layers on top of these basic properties are what makes the music interesting or useful. While these include subjectivity, I showed they still can be evidenced from data, by combining, analyzing and representing large-scale multimodal information on music (scores, signals) and its usage (recorded performances, social and collaborative data).
I then will talk about work we conducted in the area of technologically-enabled multimodal enrichment, intended to make classical concert performances more accessible to broader audiences.
Finally, I will highlight some of my current research interests and upcoming projects, including the fostering of exploration in recommendation, and research into scaling up and democratizing music annotation and enrichment.
Une courte biographie de l’oratrice, également en anglais :
Dr. Cynthia C. S. Liem MMus is an Assistant Professor in the Multimedia Computing Group of Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, and a Visiting Researcher at the FLOWERS team of Inria Bordeaux Sud-Ouest. She holds degrees in both Computer Science and Classical Piano Performance, and gained industrial experience interning at Bell Labs Europe Netherlands, Philips Research, Google UK and Google Research, Mountain View, USA. Her research interests have strongly been motivated by her background in both engineering and music, and increasingly shift towards making people discover new interests and content which would not trivially be retrieved in search and recommendation scenarios. As a computer scientist, she is recipient of several prestigious awards, including the Lucent Global Science (2005) and Google Anita Borg Europe Memorial (2008) scholarships and the Google European Doctoral Fellowship 2010 in Multimedia. She also was a finalist of the Dutch-Belgian New Scientist Science Talent Award 2016 for young scientists committed to public outreach, and will be Researcher-in-Residence at the National Library of The Netherlands in the second semester of 2018. As a performing musician, her Magma Duo (with Emmy Storms, violin) has also been award-winning both nationally and internationally.