Research

Papers

Journal papers

• CLEESE: An open-source audio-transformation toolbox for data-driven experiments in speech and music cognition
  J.J. Burred, E. Ponsot, L. Goupil, M. Liuni and J.J. Aucouturier
  PLOS One, April 4, 2019.
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• Cracking the social code of speech prosody using reverse correlation
  E. Ponsot, J.J. Burred, P. Belin and J.J. Aucouturier
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), March 26, 2018.
  Video:
• Sample Orchestrator : Gestion par le Contenu d'Échantillons Sonores
  H. Vinet, G. Assayag, J.J. Burred, G. Carpentier, N. Misdariis, G. Peeters, A. Roebel, N. Schnell, D. Schwarz and D. Tardieu
  Traitement du signal, Vol. 28/3-4, 2011.
• Dynamic Spectral Envelope Modeling for Timbre Analysis of Musical Instrument Sounds
  J.J. Burred, A. Röbel and T. Sikora
  IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, March 2010.
  
• Hierarchical Automatic Audio Signal Classification
  J.J. Burred and A. Lerch
  Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, July/August 2004.

Book chapters

• Audio Content Analysis
  J.J. Burred, M. Haller, S. Jin, A. Samour and T. Sikora
  in Y. Kompatsiaris, P. Hobson (Eds.), Semantic Multimedia and Ontologies: Theory and Applications, Springer, January 2008.

Conference papers

• Factorsynth: a Max tool for sound analysis and resynthesis based on matrix factorization
  J.J. Burred
  Proc. Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC), Hamburg, Germany, August 2016.
  
• A Framework for Music Analysis/Resynthesis Based on Matrix Factorization
  J.J. Burred
  Proc. International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), Athens, Greece, September 2014.
  Sounds:
• Speech-guided source separation using a pitch-adaptive guide signal model
  R. Hennequin, J.J. Burred, S. Maller and P. Leveau
  Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Florence, Italy, May 2014.
  
• Cross-Synthesis Based on Spectrogram Factorization
  J.J. Burred
  Proc. International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), Perth, Australia, August 2013.
  Sounds:
• Advanced Sound Hybridizations by Means of the Theory of Sound-Types
  C.E. Cella and J.J. Burred
  Proc. International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), Perth, Australia, August 2013.
• A Multimedia Search and Navigation Prototype, Including Music and Video-Clips
  G. Peeters, F. Cornu, C. Charbuillet, D. Tardieu, J.J. Burred, M. Vian, V. Botherel, J.B. Rault and J.P. Cabanal
  Proc. International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), Porto, Portugal, October 2012.
  
• Genetic Motif Discovery Applied to Audio Analysis
  J.J. Burred
  Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics,Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Kyoto, Japan, March 2012.
  
• Audio Event Detection Based on Layered Symbolic Sequence Representations
  M.L. Chin and J.J. Burred
  Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics,Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Kyoto, Japan, March 2012.
  
• Bayesian Non-Negative Matrix Factorization with Learned Temporal Smoothness Priors
  M. Coïc and J.J. Burred
  Proc. Int. Conf. on Latent Variable Analysis and Signal Separation (LVA/ICA), Tel-Aviv, Israel, March 2012.
• Convolutive Common Audio Signal Extraction
  P. Leveau, J.J. Burred, S. Maller and X. Jaureguiberry
  Proc. IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA), New Paltz, USA, October 2011.
  
• Phoneme-Level Text to Audio Synchronization on Speech Signals with Background Music
  A. Pedone, J.J. Burred, S. Maller and P. Leveau
  Proc. Interspeech, Florence, Italy, August 2011.
  
• Geometric Multichannel Common Signal Separation with Application to Music and Effects Extraction from Film Soundtracks
  J.J. Burred and P. Leveau
  Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Prague, Czech Republic, May 2011.
• Adaptation of Source-Specific Dictionaries in Non-Negative Matrix Factorization for Source Separation
  X. Jaureguiberry, P. Leveau, S. Maller and J.J. Burred
  Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Prague, Czech Republic, May 2011.
• A Segmental Spectro-Temporal Model of Musical Timbre
  J.J. Burred and A. Röbel
  Proc. International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFX), Graz, Austria, September 2010.
• Automatic Segmentation of the Temporal Evolution of Isolated Acoustic Musical Instrument Sounds Using Spectro-Temporal Cues
  M. Caetano, J.J. Burred and X. Rodet
  Proc. International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFX), Graz, Austria, September 2010.
• Source-Filter Model for Quasi-Harmonic Instruments
  H. Hahn, A. Röbel, J.J. Burred and S. Weinzierl
  Proc. International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFX), Graz, Austria, September 2010.
• An Adaptive System for Music Classification and Tagging
  J.J. Burred and G. Peeters
  Proc. International Workshop on Learning the Semantics of Audio Signals (LSAS), Graz, Austria, December 2009.
• Polyphonic Musical Instrument Recognition Based on a Dynamic Model of the Spectral Envelope
  J.J. Burred, A. Röbel and T. Sikora
  Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Taipei, Taiwan, April 2009.
• Using the SDIF Sound Description Interchange Format for Audio Features
  J.J. Burred, C.E. Cella, G. Peeters, A. Röbel and D. Schwarz
  Proc. International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), Philadelphia, USA, September 2008.
• Introducing ASAnnotation: A Tool for Sound Analysis and Annotation
  N. Bogaards, C. Yeh and J.J. Burred
  Proc. International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), Belfast, UK, August 2008.
• On the Robustness of Audio Features for Musical Instrument Classification
  S. Wegener, M. Haller, J.J. Burred, T. Sikora, S. Essid and G. Richard
  Proc. European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Lausanne, Switzerland, August 2008.
• Monaural Source Separation from Musical Mixtures Based on Time-Frequency Timbre Models
  J.J. Burred and T. Sikora
  Proc. International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), Vienna, Austria, September 2007.
• Polyphonic Instrument Recognition Using Spectral Clustering
  L.G. Martins, J.J. Burred, G. Tzanetakis and M. Lagrange
  Proc. International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), Vienna, Austria, September 2007.
• An Accurate Timbre Model for Musical Instruments and its Application to Classification
  J.J. Burred, A. Röbel and X. Rodet
  Proc. International Workshop on Learning the Semantics of Audio Signals (LSAS), Athens, Greece, December 2006.
• Comparison of Frequency-Warped Representations for Source Separation of Stereo Mixtures
  J.J. Burred and T. Sikora
  Proc. 121st AES Convention, San Francisco, USA, October 2006.
• On the Use of Auditory Representations for Sparsity-Based Sound Source Separation
  J.J. Burred and T. Sikora
  Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Information, Communications and Signal Processing (ICICS), Bangkok, Thailand,December 2005.
• Comparison of Subspace Analysis-Based and Statistical Model-Based Algorithms for Musical Instrument Classification
  E. Benetos, M. Kotti, C. Kotropoulos, J.J. Burred, G. Eisenberg, M. Haller and T. Sikora
  Proc. Workshop on Immersive Communication and Broadcast Systems (ICOB), Berlin, Germany, October 27-28, 2005.
• How Efficient is MPEG-7 for General Sound Recognition?
  H.G. Kim, J.J. Burred and T. Sikora
  Proc. of the 25th International AES Conference “Metadata for Audio”, London, UK, June 2004.
  
• A Hierarchical Approach to Automatic Musical Genre Classification
  J.J. Burred and A. Lerch
  Proc. of the 6th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFX), London, UK, September 2003.

Talks

• Computational deconstruction of sounds for music composition and performance
  CNMAT Colloquium, University of California, Berkeley, October 20th, 2023.
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• ¿Qué hay de nuevo en la síntesis sonora por ordenador?
  Escuela de Música Creativa, Madrid, Spain, May 28th, 2019.
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• Recent developments on Factorsynth (machine learning for sound deconstruction)
  IRCAM Forum Workshops, Paris, France, March 28th, 2019.
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• La deconstrucción del sonido con Factorsynth
  Encuentros AVLAB, Medialab-Prado, Madrid, Spain, October 21st, 2017.
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• Factorsynth: a tool for analysis/resynthesis based on matrix factorization
  IRCAM, Paris, France, October 19th, 2016.
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• Support Vector Machines and Kernels: A Tutorial
  Audionamix, Paris, France, February 17th, 2012.
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• Sound unmixing: principles, challenges and opportunities
  AIST, Tsukuba, Japan, April 3rd 2012.
  Yamaha Research, Hamamatsu, Japan, April 2nd 2012.
  Google Research, New York, USA, October 20th 2011.
  
• Audio source separation: status and challenges for audio content processing
  BBC Research, London, UK, December 19th 2011.
  
• Musical Source Separation: Principles and State of the Art
  IRCAM, Paris, France, June 21st 2008.
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• Supervised Musical Source Separation from Mono and Stereo Mixtures based on Sinusoidal Modeling
  TELECOM ParisTech, Paris, France, June 17th 2008.
  IRCAM, Paris, France, June 30th 2008.
  Music Technology Group, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain, July 22nd 2008.
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• Modeling the Spectral Envelope of Musical Instruments
  IRCAM, Paris, France, April 12th 2006.
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Other writings

• Esquizofonías y la nueva electroacústica
  Sul Ponticello #64, Madrid, Spain, October 2019.
• Música, ordenadores y el gesto continuo
  Input Magazine #2, Madrid, Spain, September 2014.
• Detailed derivation of multiplicative update rules for NMF
  Techical report, Paris, March 2014.
• PhD Thesis
  From Sparse Models to Timbre Learning: New Methods for Musical Source Separation
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• Masters Thesis
  An Objective Approach to Content-Based Audio Signal Classification
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• La Acústica del Piano - original Spanish version
  The Acoustics of the Piano - English translation by David Ripplinger
  Research work in Acoustics. Conservatorio Profesional de Música "Arturo Soria", Madrid, Spain, October 1999.