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Awards

2023

CP Teams receive two Judges' awards at the DCASE 2023 Workshop

Accompanying the DCASE Workshop, the DCASE community hosts the annual DCASE Challenge, a competitive international competition that pushes the boundaries of audio analysis and understanding.

Two CP teams presented their latest work at the DCASE23 Workshop on Language-Based Audio Retrieval, opens an external URL in a new window and Low-Complexity Acoustic Scene Classification, opens an external URL in a new window.

Florian Schmid, Tobias Morocutti, Shahed Masoudian, Khaled Koutini, and Gerhard Widmer participated in Task 1: Low-Complexity Acoustic Scene Classification and received the Judges' award for their top-ranked system.

Simultaneously, Paul Primus, Khaled Koutini, and Gerhard Widmer participated in Task 6b: Language-Based Audio Retrieval and were awarded the Judges' award for their winning system.

The details about the Acoustic Scene Classification and the Language-Based Audio Retrieval systems developed at CP can be found here, opens an external URL in a new window and here, opens an external URL in a new window.

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Top Ranks Again for CP Teams and JKU Students in the DCASE 2023 Challenge

One CP team, consisting of Florian Schmid, Shahed Masoudian, Khaled Koutini, Tobias Morocutti and Gerhard Widmer, and a second team, consisting of Paul Primus, Khaled Koutini and Gerhard Widmer achieve two first ranks in the DCASE 2023 Acoustic Event Detection and Classification Challenge! In addition, one of our student teams scored  an excellent 4th rank at the challenge.
DCASE23

2022

Judges' award for Low-Complexity Acoustic Scene Classification at DCASE2022 Workshop

The Judges' award for Low-Complexity Acoustic Scene Classification in the DCASE22 Challenge goes to the CP members Florian Schmid, Shahed Masoudian, Khaled Koutini, and Gerhard Widmer for their work "CP-JKU Submission to DCASE22: Distilling Knowledge for Low-Complexity Convolutional Neural Networks From a Patchout Audio Transformer, opens an external URL in a new window".

The award was presented at the DCASE2022 Workshop held in Nancy, France. The CP members Florian Schmid and Khaled Koutini presented their latest work on Low-Complexity Acoustic Scene Classification: "Knowledge Distillation From Transformers for Low-Complexity Acoustic Scene Classification, opens an external URL in a new window" (an extension to the award-winning challenge system).

DCase22 Judges´Award

Top Ranks for CP Teams and JKU Students in the DCASE 2022 Challenge

CP Team members Florian Schmid, Shahed Masoudian, Khaled Koutini, Paul Primus and Gerhard Widmer, and the JKU Student Team Tobias Morocutti and Diaaeldin Shalaby achieve top ranks in the DCASE 2022 Acoustic Event Detection and Classification Challenge!

CP Results in the DCASE 2022 Acoustic Event Detection and Classification Challenge, opens an external URL in a new window

DCase22 Challenge

2021

Top ranks in the HEAR 2021 NeurIPS Challenge

The CP team lea by Khaled Koutini achieved top ranks in several of the tasks comprising the HEAR 2021 Challenge run in the context of the NeurIPS 2021 Conference. Participants were challenged to develop a representation for audio data that is usuable across a range of (previously undisclosed) audio classification tasks spanning the speech, music and environmental audio domains. CP's submission is based on transformers.

HEAR 2021 Logo

Gerhard Widmer selected as the Falling Walls 2021 Science Breakthrough of the Year in the category Art & Science

Here is the live presentation at the Falling Walls Summit 2021 in Berlin, with Carlos Cancino giving a demo of our "ACCompanion" (a world premiere ...).

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Gerhard Widmer elected into the Academy of Sciences

The Austrian Academy of Sciences, opens an external URL in a new window (ÖAW) strengthens its ranks with 31 newly elected members, opens an external URL in a new window from a wide variety of disciplines in the humanities, social and cultural sciences as well as mathematics, natural and technical sciences.

OEAW

Gerhard Widmer elected as an ELLIS Fellow by the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS)

Ellis Fellows, opens an external URL in a new window advance science and act as ambassadors of ELLIS, opens an external URL in a new window. They provide strategic advice and leadership not just scientifically, but also in terms of how to build and grow ELLIS.

2020

Judges' Award in the DCASE 2020 challenge

CP-JKU  submission "Low-Complexity Cross-Device Acoustic Scene Classification with RF-Regularized CNNs" by Khaled Koutini, Florian Henkel, Hamid Eghbal-zadeh and Gerhard Widmer wins the "Judges' Award" at the DCASE 2020 Challenge.

View report here, opens an external URL in a new window

Reproducible System Award in the DCASE 2020 Workshop

CP-JKU  submission "Reframing Unsupervised Machine Condition Monitoring as a Supervised Classification Task with Outlier-Exposed Classifiers" by Paul Primus wins the "Reproducible System Award" in DCASE 2020 Workshop

View report here, opens an external URL in a new window

Top Ranks for CP Teams in the DCASE 2020 Challenge

CP Team members Khaled Koutini, Florian Henkel, Paul Primus, Verena Haunschmid, Hamid Eghbal-zadeh, and Gerhard Widmer achieve top ranks in the DCASE 2020 Acoustic Event Detection and Classification Challenge!


CP Results in the DCASE 2020 Acoustic Event Detection and Classification Challenge, opens an external URL in a new window:

2019

Adolf Adam Award

CP graduate Philipp Schwarz wins the first place of the Adolf-Adam-Award 2019, opens an external URL in a new window  for his master's theses in computer science with the title "Fingerprint Orientation Field Estimation using Convolutional Neural Networks"

(Dec. 2019)

Best PaperAward at ISMIR2019

Stefan Lattner and Andreas Arzt from the Institute of Computational Perception won Best Paper Award at the 20th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference ISMIR 2019!

Distinctive mention in MediaEval workshop 2019

CP.JKU team Khaled Koutini, Shreyan Chowdhury, Verena Haunschmid, Hamid
Eghbal-zadeh, Gerhard Widmer received the distinctive mention at the
MediaEval 2019 workshop (27-29 October Sophia Antipolis, France)   for
their paper "Emotion and Theme Recognition in Music with Frequency-Aware
RF-Regularized CNNs".

 

First place for CP-JKU team at the MediaEval 2019 challenge

2018

Adolf Adam Award

CP graduate Florian Henkel wins the third place of the Adolf-Adam-Award 2018, opens an external URL in a new window for his master's theses in computer science with the title "A Regularization Study for Policy Gradient Methods, opens an external URL in a new window"

(Dec. 2018)

Best Paper and Best Poster Presentation Award

The paper "Learning to Listen, Read, and Follow: Score Following as a Reinforcement Learning Game (PDF, opens an external URL in a new window)" by Matthias Dorfer, opens an external URL in a new windowFlorian Henkel, opens an external URL in a new window, and Gerhard Widmer, opens an external URL in a new window received the Best Paper Award and the Best Poster Presentation Award at the 19th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, opens an external URL in a new window.

(Sep. 2018)

Best Documentation at the Hacking Audio and Music Research (HAMR) 2018 Hackathon

CP.JKU researchers Matthias Dorfer, Florian Henkel, Filip Korzeniowski and Richard Vogl win the prize for the best documentation at the Hacking Audio and Music Research (HAMR, opens an external URL in a new window) 2018 Hackathon with the Project "Neural Bubble Beat, opens an external URL in a new window" - a hack for visualizing the activations of neural networks that extract beats, transcribe drums and analyse the harmonic content of music.

(Sep. 2018)

Nomination for Best Paper Award

Christine Bauer was nominated for Best Paper Award at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences HICSS 2018, opens an external URL in a new window for the paper:
Bauer, Christine, Schmid, Katharina Sophie, & Strauss, Christine (2018). An Open Model for Researching the Role of Culture in Online Self-Disclosure. Proceedings of the 51st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2018). 3-6 Jan, Waikoloa, Big Island, HI, pp 3637-3646.

2017

Best Paper Award

CP.JKU, opens an external URL in a new window researchers Markus Schedl, opens an external URL in a new window and Christine Bauer, opens an external URL in a new window receive the Best Paper Award for their paper "Introducing Global and Regional Mainstreaminess for Improving Personalized Music Recommendation" at the 15th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing & Multimedia (MoMM 2017), opens an external URL in a new window.

(Dec. 2017)

MIREX 2017
Waves Vienna

CP.JKU, opens an external URL in a new window guest researcher Jan Hajic jr., opens an external URL in a new window (visiting from ÚFAL, opens an external URL in a new window, Charles University Prague) and his team win the Internet of Emotions Hack Challenge at the Waves Vienna Music Hackday 2017, opens an external URL in a new window with Project "Trumpet" - a hack for reading back tweets with an appropriately (melo)dramatic voice and background music.

(Oct. 2017)

Top Results in MediaEval Benchmark

CP.JKU Team (Khaled Koutini, Alina Imenina, Matthias Dorfer, Alexander Gruber, Markus Schedl) achieves the top results, opens an external URL in a new window in the 2017 AcousticBrainz Genre Task, opens an external URL in a new window at the MediaEval Benchmarking Initiative for Multimedia Evaluation.
Here is is a report on how we did it, opens in new window.

(Aug. 2017)

Musical Turing Test

Our Basis Function Model, opens an external URL in a new window of expressive music performance is said to have passed a "musical Turing Test" (producing a piano performance whose "humanness" as judged by listeners is undistinguishable from a human musician's [and ranking best, in this respect, among a number of algorithms]) in a recent study (E. Schubert et al., Algorithms Can Mimic Human Piano Performance, opens an external URL in a new window, Journal of New Music Research (Jan. 2017)).
See also our Con Espressione Project, opens an external URL in a new window.

(Jan. 2017)

IEEE Signal Processing Cup

Our drum robot won the second place in the IEEE Signal Processing Cup, opens an external URL in a new window among 21 competitors.

(Mar. 2017)

2016

2015

Adolf Adam Award

cp.jku, opens an external URL in a new window graduate Stefan Neumüller wins the Adolf-Adam-Award 2015, opens an external URL in a new window for distinguished master's theses in computer science for his thesis "Active Appearance Models for Face Recognition"

(Dec. 2015)

2014 & Earlier

MIREX 2014

Results of cp.jku, opens an external URL in a new window algorithms in the MIREX 2014 Audio Music Similarity and Retrieval eXchange, opens an external URL in a new window

(Nov. 2014)

Best Student Paper Award
Best PAIS Demo Award

Best PAIS Demo Award of the 8th International Conference on the Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems (PAIS 2014), opens an external URL in a new window in conjunction with the 21st European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2014), opens an external URL in a new window, Prague, Czech Republic for the demo "The Piano Music Companion" by Andreas Arzt, Sebastian Böck, Sebastian Flossmann, Harald Frostel, Martin Gasser, Cynthia C.S. Liem, and Gerhard Widmer

(Aug. 2014)

Best Paper Award

Best Paper Award and Best Demo Award at the AES 53rd International Conference on Semantic Audio, opens an external URL in a new window, London, UK
Best Paper: "Bridging the Audio-Symbolic Gap: The Discovery of Repeated Note Content Directly From Polyphonic Music Audio, opens in new window" by Tom Collins, Sebastian Böck, Florian Krebs, and Gerhard Widmer
Best Demo: "The Complete Classical Music Companion V0.9, opens in new window" by Andreas Arzt, Sebastian Böck, Sebastian Flossmann, Harald Frostel, Martin Gasser, and Gerhard Widmer

(Jan. 2014)

Short-listed for Heinz Zemanek Award

cp.jku, opens an external URL in a new window researcher Peter Knees, opens an external URL in a new window short-listed for the Heinz Zemanek Award, opens an external URL in a new window 2012 for excellent degree dissertations in the field of informatics and related areas.

(July 2013)

Winner of Ice Stock Sport Competition

cp.jku, opens an external URL in a new window's team "Die Polarkoordinatoren" wins the 6th annual Johannes Kepler University Ice Stock Sport Competition (also known as Bavarian Curling)
>> The winning team, opens a file (from left to right: Sebastian Böck, Andreas Arzt, Florian Krebs, Harald Frostel)

(Feb. 2012)

Award of Excellence
Finalist of the Adolf-Adam-Award

cp.jku, opens an external URL in a new window researcher Filip Korzeniowski, opens an external URL in a new window named one of the four finalists of the Adolf-Adam-Award 2011, opens an external URL in a new window for distinguished master's theses in computer science

(Dec. 2011)

Exhibition at Media Arts Festival

Our arts project sound/tracks, opens an external URL in a new window is exhibited at the Media Arts Festival, opens an external URL in a new window at Miyazaki Art Center, opens an external URL in a new window in Miyazaki, Japan from December 23rd, 2011 – January 9th, 2012.

(Dec. 2011)

MIREX 2011

Results from the MIREX 2011 Audio Music Similarity and Retrieval eXchange, opens an external URL in a new window

(Oct. 2011)

2 Awards for Performance Rendering Systems

Our expressive music performance rendering system YQX 2.0 feat. the Basis Mixer, opens an external URL in a new window wins 2 awards at the 10th Contest for Performance Rendering Systems (SMC-Rencon, opens an external URL in a new window), Padova, Italy, July 2011:

(July 2011)

Jury Recommended Work
MIREX 2010

Results from the MIREX 2010 Audio Music Similarity and Retrieval eXchange, opens an external URL in a new window

In the Audio Music Similarity and Retrieval Task, opens an external URL in a new window, the three best-ranking algorithms were all submitted by cp.jku teams

  • Rank 1: Klaus Seyerlehner, Markus Schedl, Tim Pohle, Peter Knees (SSPK2)
  • Rank 2: Tim Pohle, Klaus Seyerlehner, Dominik Schnitzer (PSS1)
  • Rank 3: Tim Pohle, Dominik Schnitzer (PS1)

The algorithm SSPK1 (Klaus Seyerlehner, Markus Schedl, Tim Pohle, Peter Knees) achieved

(Aug. 2010)

Wittgenstein-Preis

Gerhard Widmer, opens an external URL in a new window receives the Austrian Wittgenstein-Preis 2009
The Wittgenstein Prize is Austria's most prestigious research award and comes with a five-year grant of EUR 1,4 million.
>> Related media coverage, opens an external URL in a new window

(Oct. 2009)

Best Student Paper Award

Best Student Paper Award at the 6th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM 2007) for the Paper "One-Touch Access to Music on Mobile Devices, opens an external URL in a new window" by D. Schnitzer, T. Pohle, P. Knees, and G. Widmer
>> Photo of the award ceremony, opens an external URL in a new window

(Dec. 2007)

Runner-up for Best Paper Award

Runner-up for Best Paper Award at the ACM Multimedia 2006 for the Paper "An Innovative Three-Dimensional User Interface for Exploring Music Collections Enriched with Meta-Information from the Web, opens an external URL in a new window" by P. Knees, M. Schedl, T. Pohle, and G. Widmer

(Oct. 2006)

Best Poster Award

Best Poster Award at the International Conference for Music Information Retrieval 2005 (ISMIR), opens an external URL in a new window for the paper "MATCH: A Music Alignment Tool Chest, opens an external URL in a new window" by S. Dixon and G. Widmer

(Sept. 2005)