International Audio Laboratories Erlangen

Dr.-Ing. Stefan Balke

• Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Meinard Müller

Research Interests

• Music Information Retrieval
• Music Processing
• Deep Learning

CV

• 2014-2018: Obtaining Ph.D./Dr.-Ing. in Prof. Dr. Meinard Müller's group at the AudioLabs Erlangen
  • Dissertation: "Multimedia Processing Techniques for Retrieving, Extracting, and Accessing Musical Content"
• 2008-2013: Electrical Engineering with emphasis on communications at Leibniz Universität Hannover
  • Study Project: "Conception and Implementation of quantitative analyses for classifying Elastography-data" - pdf
  • Diploma thesis: "Perception-based analysis of binaural synthesis using Higher-Order-Ambisonics signals" - pdf

Talks

• Slides from my PhD Defense, Erlangen, 21.03.2018

• "Multimedia Processing Techniques for Retrieving, Extracting, and Accessing Musical Content" at Musikhochschule Detmold (Research Colloquium), 15.01.2018

• "Multimedia Processing Techniques for Retrieving, Extracting, and Accessing Musical Content" at JKU Linz (Research Colloquium), 19.10.2017

• "Deep Neural Networks in MIR" at Workshop for Systematic Approaches to Deep Learning Methods for Audio, Vienna, Austria

• "Using domain knowledge for automatic structure analysis of jazz recordings" at Second International Jazzomat Research Workshop 2016, Weimar, Germany

Teaching

• Teaching Assistant: Music Processing Analysis, Winter Term 2016/2017
• Teacher at International Summer School on Computational Musicology (ISSCoM2016), Weimar, Germany
• Lab: Short-Time Fourier Transform and Chroma Features (part of Audio Processing Laboratory, Summer Term 2016)
• Teaching Assistant: Music Processing Analysis, Winter Term 2015/2016
• Introduction to Multimedia Programming (JuniorAkademie Bayern 2015)
• Lab: Short-Time Fourier Transform and Chroma Features (part of Audio Processing Laboratory, Winter Term 2014/2015)
• Lab: Short-Time Fourier Transform and Chroma Features (part of Audio Processing Laboratory, Summer Term 2013)

Supervised Theses

• Bachelor thesis (2017): "Multimediale Aufbereitung von Jazzstandards zur musikpädagogischen Nutzung" - Paul Bießmann (co-supervision with S. Trump, and Prof. M. Müller)
• Master thesis (2016): "Efficient Content-Based Audio Retrieval" - Johannes Knödtel (co-supervision with Prof. M. Müller)
• Master thesis (2016): "Konzept einer Multimedia-Datenbank für Musikdaten zu einer Oper" - Manuel Hiemer (co-supervision with P. Schwab, Prof. K. Meyer-Wegener, and Prof. M. Müller)
• Master thesis (2014): "Towards Automated Retrieval of Audio Recordings based on Musical Themes" - Lukas Lamprecht (co-supervision with T. Prätzlich, and Prof. M. Müller)
• Master thesis (2014): "Cross-Modal Matching of Text, Image and Symbolic Music Data" - Sanu Pulimootil Achankunju (co-supervision with Prof. M. Müller)