Arshia Cont

Head of Research, MuTant Team-Project (INRIA/CNRS/Ircam).
Director, Department for Research/Creativity interfaces.
Ircam - Centre Pompidou, Paris, France.
arshia.cont [at] ircam.fr

NEWS:

• Antescofo has won the 2011 La Recherche prize in the special prize category.
• Public press article on Antescofo in Interstices and La recherche magazine (French).
• For Antescofo events and news see here

This is my research website!

• Score Following
• Synchronous Programming
• Realtime Pattern Recognition for Music
• Music Information Geometry

• Antescofo: Anticipatory score following and synchronous programming for realtime computer music

• La Recherche Special Prize 2011 for Antescofo by the popular science magazine La Recherche.
• 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.

• ATIAM Machine Learning Course
  • 2012 Course Page
• Paris Conservatory, FSMS, English research survey course (2012-2013)

Citations (See all here)

Cont A., Dubnov S., and Assayag G., On the Information Geometry of Audio Streams with Applications to Similarity Computing, IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, Vol. 19, no. 4, Pp. 837-846, 2011. (preprint) (bibtex)

Cont Arshia, A coupled duration-focused architecture for realtime music to score alignment. IEEE Transaction on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. Vol. 32(6), Pp. 974-987, June 2010. (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)