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== Contact Information ==
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Intelligent Sound and Music Systems
email: b.fields(at)gold(dot)ac(dot)uk
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Department of Computing
<br>(mobile) phone: +44 (0) 79 6106 1568
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Goldsmiths College
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University of London
office address:
 
<br>Ben Fields
 
<br>Department of Computing
 
<br>Goldsmiths College
 
<br>University of London
 
<br>New Cross
 
<br>London, SE14 6NW
 
<br>United Kingdom
 
<br><br>
 
[http://doc.gold.ac.uk/~map01bf/ website]
 
 
 
 
 
== Universities ==
 
===PhD===
 
'''PhD Computing, expected June 2010'''<br>
 
Goldsmiths College, University of London<br>
 
(no dissertation title yet...)
 
 
 
 
 
===MSc===
 
'''M.S. Music Engineering Technology,  May 2006'''
 
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===
 
'''B.S. Computer Engineering, March 2004'''
 
<br>University of California, Santa Cruz
 
<br>Senior Design Project:  Securio - The Autonomous Home Security Robot, Audio Video Specialist
 
 
 
== Current Activities ==
 
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===
 
*bridging the semantic gap between social networks and content based retrieval systems
 
*Music recommenders
 
*Metadata informed dynamics effects processing
 
*Playlist generation/playback and content aware mixing (autoDJ)
 
*Song phrase segmentation
 
*Mixed Playlist (think DJ set, pod cast, etc.) segmentation (unmixing)
 
 
 
===Publications===
 
*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.
 
*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. 
 
*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.
 
*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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Intelligent Sound and Music Systems Department of Computing Goldsmiths College University of London