International Audio Laboratories Erlangen

Scientific Activtiy

Talks & Presentations

  • "The RWC Academy" at Dagsthul Seminar for Open Music Data for Music Processing Research, 01.07.2026
  • "Differentiable Signal Processing for Wind Music: From Data to Interactive Systems" at Hochschule für Musik Detmold (with Simon Schwär and Manuel Peters), Erich-Thienhaus-Institut, 05.06.2026
  • "Differentiable Signal Processing for Wind Music: From Data to Interactive Systems" at AudioLabs Kolloquim, 18.05.2026
  • "Emerging Topics: Music Synthesis for Wind Music" at Universität Bamberg (Guest lecture on invitation by Prof. Dr. Jakob Abeßer), 02.02.2026 (Slides)
  • "Digitale Helfer für analoge Bläserklänge: Forschung für Blasorchester" at Volkmusikerbund NRW (Kreisverband Höxter), 10.09.2025
  • "Wind Music as a New Research Direction in MIR" at WIMIR Mentoring Virtual Meetup, 12.07.2025
  • “Digital Sheet Music Assistant: On the use of web-based interfaces in Project Orchestras” at DAGA Hannover, 20.03.2024
  • “Tame Your KPIs with Data Science–Or OKRs, or both? Doesn‘t matter as long as it‘s AGILE!” at Dagstuhl Seminar for Deep Learning and Knowledge Integration for Music Audio Analysis, Dagstuhl, Germany, 2022
  • “Besucherstromanalyse während der Landesgartenschau 2023 in Höxter” at Technische Hochschule OWL, Höxter, Germany, 2021
  • “Digital Dienstag: Cloud Computing” at Haus der Wissenschaft, Braunschweig, Germany, 2021
  • “Expert Talk Data Science: KI-basierte Kundengewinnung” at Q-HUB Chemnitz, Germany, 2020
  • “Azure on the Edge: Lernen in der Cloud, Deployment auf dem Shopfloor” at TDWI Virtual II 2020, Germany, 2020
  • “Data Scientist - The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century” at Universität Paderborn, Lernzentrum Informatik (LZI), Paderborn, Germany, 2020
  • “Hey Siri! Wie funktionierst Du eigentlich? – Eine Einführung in KI” at VHS Volkshochschule Höxter-Marienmünster, Höxter, Germany, 2020
  • “Cross-Modal Music Retrieval” at Data Science Meet-Up, Paderborn, Germany, 2019
  • “Hey Siri! Wie funktionierst Du eigentlich? – Eine Einführung in KI” at Science Talk am Bildungs- und Begegnungszentrum, Steyr, Austria, 2019
  • “Multimedia Processing Techniques for Retrieving, Extracting, and Accessing Musical Content” at International Audio Laboratories Erlangen (PhD Defense), Germany, 21.03.2018
  • “Multimedia Processing Techniques for Retrieving, Extracting, and Accessing Musical Content” at Musikhochschule Detmold (Research Colloquium), Germany, 15.01.2018
  • “Deep Neural Networks in MIR” at Workshop for Systematic Approaches to Deep Learning Methods for Audio, Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematics and Physics (ESI), Vienna, Austria, 13.09.2017
  • “Multimedia Processing Techniques for Retrieving, Extracting, and Accessing Musical Content” at JKU Linz (Research Colloquium), Austria, 19.10.2017
  • “Using Domain Knowledge for Automatic Structure Analysis of Jazz Recordings” at Second International Jazzomat Research Workshop, Weimar, Germany, 2016
  • “Musical Structure Analysis for Jazz Recordings” at Dagstuhl Seminar for Computational Music Structure Analysis, 2016

Tutorials

  • “Cross-Modal Music Retrieval and Applications” at IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) (with A. Arzt and M. Müller), Brighton, UK, 2019
  • “Musikverarbeitung” at GI Workshop: Musik trifft Informatik, 47. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI) (with C. Weiß and M. Müller), Chemnitz, Germany, 2017
  • “Using Domain Knowledge for Automatic Structure Analysis of Jazz Recordings” at Second International Jazzomat Research Workshop 2016, Weimar, Germany

Scientific & Community Service

  • Guest Lead Editor for TISMIR Special Collection: Open Music Data for Music Processing Research (with Magdalena Fuentes, Dasaem Jeong, and Meinard Müller)
  • ISMIR Board of Directors, Member-at-large (2026-2028)
  • Organizer special session at DAGA 2026: Music Information Retrieval (with Jakob Abeßer and Meinard Müller)
  • New to ISMIR initiative, Squad leader, ISMIR 2025, Daejeon, South Korea
  • Women in MIR (WiMIR) Mentor, 2025
  • New to ISMIR initiative, Squad leader (online), ISMIR 2024, San Francisco
  • Online Volunteer, ISMIR 2024, San Francisco
  • Organizer special session at DAGA 2024: “Sound Analysis for Music and Audio Signals” (with Jakob Abeßer and Meinard Müller)
  • Technology Chair, ISMIR, online conference, 2021
  • Proceedings and Archival Chair, ISMIR, Delft, The Netherlands, 2019
  • Program Committee Member at GI Workshop: Musik trifft Informatik, Chemnitz, Germany, 2017
  • Reviewer: IEEE SPL, IEEE Transactions, IJCAI, ISMIR, TISMIR, ICASSP, SMC

Public Outreach

  • Interview with Hessischer Musikverband: "Innovativ", 12.2025 (PDF)

Awards

  • “Best Faculty Award 2021”, Controller Institute Österreich (category >4 days, 3rd place)
  • “Best Faculty Award 2020”, Controller Institute Österreich (category >4 days, 3rd place)