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| − | == Contact Information ==
| + | Intelligent Sound and Music Systems |
| − | email: b.fields(at)gold(dot)ac(dot)uk
| + | Department of Computing |
| − | <br>(mobile) phone: +44 (0) 79 6106 1568
| + | Goldsmiths College |
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| + | University of London |
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| − | <br>Ben Fields
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| − | <br>Department of Computing
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| − | <br>Goldsmiths College
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| − | <br>University of London
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| − | <br>New Cross
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| − | <br>London, SE14 6NW
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| − | <br>United Kingdom
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| − | <br><br>
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| − | [http://benfields.net website]
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| − | == Universities ==
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| − | ===PhD===
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| − | '''PhD Computing, expected June 2010'''<br>
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| − | Goldsmiths College, University of London<br>
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| − | Working on (music) recommenders, taking the form of functional specific playlist generation, leveraging the social interwebs
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| − | ===MSc===
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| − | '''M.S. Music Engineering Technology, May 2006'''
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| − | University of Miami<blockquote>Thesis: ''ON THE VIABILITY OF USING MIXED FEATURE EXTRACTION WITH MULTIPLE STATISTICAL MODELS TO CATEGORIZE MUSIC BY GENRE''
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| − | available for download: [http://mue.music.miami.edu/thesis/BenFields/thesis.pdf pdf]
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| − | ===BS===
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| − | '''B.S. Computer Engineering, March 2004'''
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| − | <br>University of California, Santa Cruz
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| − | <br>Senior Design Project: Securio - The Autonomous Home Security Robot, Audio Video Specialist
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| − | == Current Activities ==
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| − | I started my PhD research in music similarity and organization as part of [http://omras2.doc.gold.ac.uk/ OMRAS2] in January 2007. I am currently working in the [http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/gds/ Goldsmiths Digital Studios] research group, under the supervision of [http://doc.gold.ac.uk/~mas01mc/ Dr. Micheal Casey] and [http://doc.gold.ac.uk/~mas01cr/ Dr. Christophe Rhodes].
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| − | ===Research Interests===
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| − | *bridging the semantic gap between social networks and content based retrieval systems
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| − | *Music recommenders
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| − | *Metadata informed dynamics effects processing
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| − | *Playlist generation/playback and content aware mixing (autoDJ)
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| − | *Song phrase segmentation
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| − | *Mixed Playlist (think DJ set, pod cast, etc.) segmentation (unmixing)
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| − | ===Publications===
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| − | *B. Fields, K. Jacobson, C. Rhodes, M. Casey, "Social Playlists and Bottleneck Measurements: Exploiting Musician Social Graphs Using Content-Based Dissimilarity and Pairwise Maximum Flow Values," in Proc. Int. Symposium on Music Information Retrieval, Philadelphia, PA, USA September 2008.
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| − | *B. Fields, K. Jacobson, M. Casey, M. Sandler, "Do You Sound Like Your Friends? Exploring Artist Similarity via Artist Social Network Relationships and Audio Signal Processing," in Intl. Computer Music Conference, August 2008.
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| − | *B. Fields, M. Casey, "Using Audio Classifiers as a Mechanism for Content Based Song Similarity," in Proc. Audio Engineering Society 123 Int. Conv., (New York, NY, USA), Audio Engineering Society, October 2007
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| − | *M. Mauch, S. Dixon, C. Harte, B. Fields, M. Casey, "Discovering Chord Idioms through Beatles and Real Book Songs," in Proc. Int. Symposium on Music Information Retrieval, Vienna, Austria, Sept. 2007.
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| − | *B.Fields, ΓÇ£[http://doc.gold.ac.uk/~map01bf/papers/GenreSortAES122.pdf Using mixed feature extraction with multiple statistical models to achieve song categorization by genre],ΓÇ¥ in Proc. Audio Engineering Society 122nd Int. Conv., (Vienna, Austria), Audio Engineering Society, May 2007.
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| − | *B.Fields, ΓÇ£[http://mue.music.miami.edu/thesis/BenFields/thesis.pdf On the viability of using mixed feature extraction with multiple statistical models to achieve song categorization by genre],ΓÇ¥ MasterΓÇÖs thesis, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, May 2006.
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