Blaauw, Merlijn (Date of defense: 2022-07-22)
Singing synthesis has seen a notable surge in popularity in the last decade and a half. Music producers use this technology as an instrument, there is an audience for music with synthetic vocals, and ...
Cuesta, Helena (Date of defense: 2022-03-21)
Ensemble singing is a well-established practice across cultures, found in a great diversity of forms, languages, and levels. However, it has not been widely studied in the field of Music Information ...
Porcaro, Lorenzo (Date of defense: 2022-12-16)
This thesis focuses on assessing the impact that music recommendation diversity may have on listeners. In the music domain, diversity is one of the values that recommender systems should preserve, ...
Yesiler, M. Furkan (Date of defense: 2022-01-12)
This dissertation aims at developing audio-based musical version identification (VI) systems for industry-scale corpora. To employ such systems in industrial use cases, they must demonstrate high ...
Gómez Cañón, Juan sebastián (Date of defense: 2022-10-26)
This doctoral thesis is focused on music in terms of emotion -- such algorithms compose the computational task of music emotion recognition (MER). MER evaluates emotionally relevant features from ...