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Stefan Balke

Post-Doctoral Researcher

Curriculum Vitae

I left the institute in July 2019. Please find more recent information on my personal website, opens an external URL in a new window.

Research Interests

  • Music Information Retrieval
  • Deep Learning
  • Performance Analysis

Recent Activities

Tutorial at ICASSP 2019

Together with my colleagues Andreas Arzt and Meinard Müller, we gave a tutorial about "Cross-Modal Music Retrieval and Applications" at the ICASSP 2019 in Brighton, UK. The slides and more information about the content can be found here, opens an external URL in a new window.

Exhibit: The Listening Machine

In the new and completely remodeled Ars Electornica Center (AEC) in Linz, we were asked to provide an exhibit for sound understanding in the context of Machine Learning. Together with my colleagues Florian Henkel, Matthias Dorfer, Alexander Moser, and Gerhard Widmer, as well as UI support from the AEC, we created an interactive interface which lets visitors explore the capabilites and–more importantly–the limitations of current machine listening systems. More information here, opens an external URL in a new window, code for the backend part is available on GitHub, opens an external URL in a new window.

Exhibit: Con Espressione!

In a cooperation with Imaginary we created an exhibit for the exhibition "La La Lab - The Mathematics of Music", opens an external URL in a new window, located in Heidelberg, Germany. Together with my colleagues Carlos Eduardo Cancino-Chacon, Florian Henkel, and Gerhard Widmer, we created an interactive interface which allows users –in co-operation with an AI component–to create expressive musical performances. All details and code for reproduction can be found here, opens an external URL in a new window.

Publications

Stefan Balke, Matthias Dorfer, Luis Carvalho, Andreas Arzt, and Gerhard Widmer
Learning Soft-Attention Models for Tempo-invariant Audio-Sheet Music Retrieval
In Proceedings of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR), 2019. Details, opens an external URL in a new window

Meinard Müller, Andreas Arzt, Stefan Balke, Matthias Dorfer, and Gerhard Widmer
Cross-Modal Music Retrieval and Applications: An Overview of Key Methodologies
IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 36(1): 52–62, 2019.

Frank Zalkow, Stefan Balke, and Meinard Müller
Evaluating Salience Representations for Cross-Modal Retrieval of Western Classical Music Recordings
In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP): 311–335, 2019. Details, opens an external URL in a new window

Stefan Balke
Multimedia Processing Techniques for Retrieving, Extracting, and Accessing Musical Content
PhD Thesis, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), 2018.  Details, opens an external URL in a new window

Jakob Abeßer, Stefan Balke, and Meinard Müller
Improving Bass Saliency Estimation using Label Propagation and Transfer Learning
In Proceedings of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR): 306–312, 2018.

Christof Weiß, Stefan Balke, Jakob Abeßer, and Meinard Müller
Computational Corpus Analysis: A Case Study on Jazz Solos
In Proceedings of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR): 416–423, 2018.

Stefan Balke, Christian Dittmar, and Meinard Müller
Ansätze zur datengetriebenen Transkription einstimmiger Jazzsoli
In Proceedings of the Deutsche Jahrestagung für Akustik (DAGA): 1530–1532, 2018.  PDF, opens an external URL in a new window

Stefan Balke, Christian Dittmar, Jakob Abeßer, Klaus Frieler, Martin Pfleiderer, and Meinard Müller
Bridging the Gap: Enriching YouTube Videos with Jazz Music Annotations
Frontiers in Digital Humanities, 5: 1–11, 2018.  PDF, opens an external URL in a new window Details, opens an external URL in a new window DOI, opens an external URL in a new window

Christian Dittmar, Martin Pfleiderer, Stefan Balke, and Meinard Müller
A Swingogram Representation for Tracking Micro-Rhythmic Variation in Jazz Performances
Journal of New Music Research, 47(2): 97–113, 2018.  Details, opens an external URL in a new window DOI, opens an external URL in a new window

Stefan Balke and Meinard Müller
JazzTube: Linking the Weimar Jazz Database with YouTube
In Martin Pfleiderer and Klaus Frieler and Jakob Jakob Abeßer and Wolf-Georg Zaddach and Benjamin Burkhart (ed.): Inside the Jazzomat. New perspectives for jazz research, Schott Campus: 315–317, 2017.  Details, opens an external URL in a new window

Stefan Balke, Paul Bießmann, Sebastian Trump, and Meinard Müller
Konzeption und Umsetzung webbasierter Werkzeuge für das Erlernen von Jazz-Piano
In Proceedings of the GI Jahrestagung: 61–73, 2017.  PDF, opens an external URL in a new window Demo, opens an external URL in a new window DOI, opens an external URL in a new window Presentation, opens an external URL in a new window

Stefan Balke, Manuel Hiemer, Peter Schwab, Vlora Arifi-Müller, Klaus Meyer-Wegener, and Meinard Müller
Die Oper als Multimedia Szenario: Wagners Walküren gehen online
In Proceedings of the GI Jahrestagung: 75–86, 2017.  PDF, opens an external URL in a new window Demo, opens an external URL in a new window DOI, opens an external URL in a new window Presentation, opens an external URL in a new window

Nils Werner, Stefan Balke, Fabian-Robert Stöter, Meinard Müller, and Bernd Edler
trackswitch.js: A Versatile Web-Based Audio Player for Presenting Scientific Results
In Proceedings of the Web Audio Conference, 2017.  PDF, opens an external URL in a new window Details, opens an external URL in a new window

Jakob Abeßer, Stefan Balke, Klaus Frieler, Martin Pfleiderer, and Meinard Müller
Deep Learning for Jazz Walking Bass Transcription
In Proceedings of the AES International Conference on Semantic Audio: 202–209, 2017.  PDF, opens an external URL in a new window Details, opens an external URL in a new window Presentation, opens an external URL in a new window

Stefan Balke, Christian Dittmar, Jakob Abeßer, and Meinard Müller
Data-Driven Solo Voice Enhancement for Jazz Music Retrieval
In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP): 196–200, 2017. PDF, opens an external URL in a new window Details, opens an external URL in a new window Presentation, opens an external URL in a new window

Stefan Balke, Jakob Abeßer, Jonathan Driedger, Christian Dittmar, and Meinard Müller
Towards Evaluating Multiple Predominant Melody Annotations in Jazz Recordings
In Proceedings of the International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR): 246–252, 2016.  PDF, opens an external URL in a new window Details, opens an external URL in a new window Presentation, opens an external URL in a new window

Jonathan Driedger, Stefan Balke, Sebastian Ewert, and Meinard Müller
Template-Based Vibrato Analysis of Music Signals
In Proceedings of the International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR): 239–245, 2016.  PDF, opens an external URL in a new window Details, opens an external URL in a new window

Stefan Balke, Vlora Arifi-Müller, Lukas Lamprecht, and Meinard Müller
Retrieving Audio Recordings Using Musical Themes
In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP): 281–285, 2016. PDF, opens an external URL in a new window Presentation, opens an external URL in a new window

Stefan Balke and Meinard Müller
A Graphical User Interface for Understanding Audio Retrieval Results
In Demos and Late Breaking News of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR), 2015. PDF, opens an external URL in a new window Presentation, opens an external URL in a new window

Stefan Balke, Sanu Pulimootil Achankunju, and Meinard Müller
Matching Musical Themes based on Noisy OCR and OMR Input
In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP): 703–707, 2015. PDF, opens an external URL in a new window Presentation, opens an external URL in a new window

Stefan Balke, Lukas Lamprecht, Vlora Arifi-Müller, Thomas Prätzlich, and Meinard Müller
Automatisierte Identifikation von Audioaufnahmen anhand symbolisch codierter musikalischer Themen
In Proceedings of the 41st Deutsche Jahrestagung für Akustik (DAGA): 1521–1524, 2015.  PDF, opens an external URL in a new window Presentation, opens an external URL in a new window

Frederik Nagel, Fabian-Robert Stöter, Norberto Degara, Stefan Balke, and David Worrall
Fast and accurate guidance - response times to navigational sounds
In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD), 2014.  PDF, opens an external URL in a new window

Johann-Markus Batke, Stefan Abeling, Stefan Balke, and Gerald Enzner
Investigation of HRTF Sets Using Content with Limited Spatial Resolution
In Proceedings of the 135th Audio Engineering Society Convention, 2013. 

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