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Dr.-Ing. Stefan Balke
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
- 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
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Slides from my PhD Defense, Erlangen, 21.03.2018
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"Multimedia Processing Techniques for Retrieving, Extracting, and Accessing Musical Content" at Musikhochschule Detmold (Research Colloquium), 15.01.2018
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"Multimedia Processing Techniques for Retrieving, Extracting, and Accessing Musical Content" at JKU Linz (Research Colloquium), 19.10.2017
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"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
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)