My Research

I have just finished my PhD at Queen Mary, University of London in the OMRAS2 project I've been funded by the EPSRC.

Since the beginning of April 2010 I've been a post-doc researcher at Masataka Goto's lab in Tsukuba, Japan.

PhD Thesis

• Mauch, Matthias: Automatic Chord Transcription Using Computational Models of Musical Context
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  This is the final version of my thesis, after the defense.

Journal Paper

• Mauch, Matthias and Dixon, Simon: Simultaneous Estimation of Chords and Musical Context from Audio, accepted for the IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing.
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Peer-Reviewed Conference Papers

• Mauch, Matthias and Fujihara, Hiromasa and Goto, Masataka. Lyrics-to-Audio Alignment and Phrase-Level Segmentation Using Incomplete Internet-Style Chord Annotations, to appear in the Proceedings of the 7th Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC 2010).
  (BIBTEX, PDF preprint)
• Mauch, Matthias and Dixon, Simon, Approximate Note Transcription for the Improved Identification of Difficult Chords, to appear in the Proceedings of the 11th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2010)
  (BIBTEX, PDF preprint)
• Crawford, Tim and Mauch, Matthias and Rhodes, Christophe, Recognizing Classical Works in Historic Recordings, to appear in the Proceedings of the 11th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2010)
  (BIBTEX)
• Tidhar, Dan and Mauch, Matthias and Dixon, Simon: High Precision Frequency Estimation for Harpsichord Tuning Classification, to appear in the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP).
  (BIBTEX)
• Mauch, Matthias and Noland, Katy and Dixon, Simon: Using Musical Structure to Enhance Automatic Chord Transcription, 10th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval, Kobe, Japan, 2009.
  (PDF, BIBTEX)
• Mauch, Matthias and Dixon, Simon: A Discrete Mixture Model for Chord Labelling, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval, Philadelphia, USA, 2008.
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• Mauch, Matthias and Dixon, Simon and Harte, Christopher and Casey, Michael and Fields, Benjamin: Discovering Chord Idioms Through Beatles and Real Book Songs, Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval, Vienna, Austria, 2007.
  (PDF, BIBTEX)

Other Publications

• Mauch, Matthias and Fujihara, Hiromasa and Goto, Masataka: Song Prompter: An Accompaniment System based on the Automatic Alignment of Lyrics and Chords to Audio, late-breaking demo at the 11th International Society of Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2010), 2010.
  (PDF, BIBTEX)
• Tidhar, Dan and Fazekas, Gyorgy and Mauch, Matthias and Dixon, Simon: Temperament Estimation as an MIR task, late-breaking session at the 11th International Society of Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2010), 2010.
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• Mauch, Matthias and Cannam, Chris and Davies, Matthew and Dixon, Simon and Harte, Christopher and Kolozali, Sefki and Tidhar, Dan and Sandler, Mark: OMRAS2 Metadata Project 2009, late-breaking session at the 10th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval, Kobe, Japan, 2009.
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• Mauch, Matthias and Müllensiefen, Daniel and Dixon, Simon and Wiggins, Geraint: Can Statistical Language Models be Used for the Analysis of Harmonic Progressions?, Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Sapporo, Japan, 2008.
  (PDF, BIBTEX)
• Mauch, Matthias: Simultaneous Confidence Bands in Generalised Linear Models, Diplomarbeit, University of Rostock, Germany, in collaboration with the Max-Planck-Institut for Demographic Research, Rostock, 2005.
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