Arshia Cont
From IMTR
Researcher, , Real-Time Musical Interactions, and
Head of Musical Research, MRC Department,
IRCAM - Centre Pompidou, Paris, France.
Research
Development
Teaching
- ATIAM Machine Learning Course (September-December 2009)
- CNSMDP, "métier du son," English research survey course (2009-2010)
Awards
- SPECIF/Gilles Kahn PhD Prize 2009, First prize (sponsored by French Academy of Science)
- ASTI PhD Prize 2009, Second Prize (sponsored by INRIA)
- Sound and Music Computing Best Paper Award 2009.
- ICMC Best Presentation Award, 2007.
- Eiffel PhD fellowship of excellence from French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 2006–2007.
- Audio Engineering Society’s Grant for Graduate Studies, 2004–2005.
- First Prize — IEEE VMS Student Paper Competition, January 2003.
Selected Publications
(See all here)
Cont Arshia, A coupled duration-focused architecture for realtime music to score alignment. IEEE Transaction on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 2009 (in press). (preprint) (bibtex)
Cont Arshia, Modeling Musical Anticipation: From the time of music to the music of time. PhD thesis in Acoustics, Signal Processing, and Computer Science Applied to Music (ATIAM). Paris : University of Paris 6 (UPMC), and University of California San Diego (UCSD) (joint), 2008. (pdf) (bibtex)
Cont Arshia, ANTESCOFO: Anticipatory Synchronization and Control of Interactive Parameters in Computer Music. International Computer Music Conference. Belfast : August 2008. (pdf) (bibtex)
Cont Arshia, Dubnov Shlomo, Assayag Gérard, Anticipatory Model of Musical Style Imitation using Collaborative and Competitive Reinforcement Learning. Anticipatory Behavior in Adaptive Learning Systems. Berlin : Martin Butz, Olivier Sigaud and Gianluca Baldassarre (Editors). 2007, p. 285-306. (pdf) (bibtex)
Cont Arshia, Dubnov Shlomo, Wessel David, Realtime Multiple-pitch and Multiple-instrument Recognition For Music Signals using Sparse Non-negative Constraints. Digital Audio Effects (DAFx). Bordeaux : Septembre 2007. (pdf) (bibtex)
Cont Arshia, Realtime Multiple Pitch Observation using Sparse Non-negative Constraints. International Symposium on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR). Victoria : Octobre 2006. (pdf) (bibtex)
Cont Arshia, Realtime Audio to Score Alignment for Polyphonic Music Instruments Using Sparse Non-negative constraints and Hierarchical HMMs. IEEE International Conference in Acoustics and Speech Signal Processing (ICASSP). Toulouse : Mai 2006. (pdf) (bibtex)
For now
http://cosmal.ucsd.edu/arshia/