Christof Weiß
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christof Weiß
Professor
Computational Humanities
Universität Würzburg
Hubland Nord (ZPD)
Emil-Hilb-Weg 23
Hubland Nord (ZPD)
Emil-Hilb-Weg 23
97074
Würzburg
Germany
Gebäude:
ZPD
Raum:
02.006
Telefon:
+49 931 31 80528
E-Mail:
christof.weiss@uni-wuerzburg.de
Link:
Christof Weiß
Recent Positions
| 11/2022 – present | Professor for Computational Humanities at CAIDAS / Institute of Computer Science, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU), Germany Head of DFG-funded Emmy Noether group on Computational Analysis of Music Audio Recordings: A Cross-Version Approach |
| 01/2021 – 12/2021 | Visiting Researcher (DFG Research Fellowship), Audio Data Analysis and Signal Processing group at University Télécom Paris, France. Cooperating partner: Prof. Geoffroy Peeters |
| 04/2020 – 07/2020, 04/2021 – 07/2021 | Visiting Lecturer, Karlsruhe University of Music, Germany |
| 09/2015 – 10/2022 | Research Assistant, Semantic Audio Processing, International Audio Laboratories Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Germany |
| 10/2012 – 07/2015 | Research Assistant, Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology (IDMT) Ilmenau, Germany |
Education
| 2017 | PhD (Media Technology), University of Technology Ilmenau, Supervisor: Prof. Karlheinz Brandenburg, Computational Methods for Tonality-Based Style Analysis of Classical Music Audio Recordings |
| 2012 | Concert Diploma (Composition), Würzburg University of Music (Tobias P. M. Schneid) |
| 2012 | Physics Diploma, University of Würzburg |
| 2011 | Music Diploma (Composition), Würzburg University of Music (Prof. Heinz Winbeck) |
| 2006 | Abitur, Max-Reger-Gymnasium Amberg |
Scholarships
| 10/2012 – 08/2015 | Fellow of the Foundation of German Business (sdw) PhD program |
| 05/2007 – 03/2012 | Fellow of the Foundation of German Business (sdw) study program |
Prizes and Awards
| 04/2026 | Baldwin and Inge Knauf Award for Outstanding Academic Achievements 2026 in the category "humanities". |
| 12/2023 | Best paper award at the 4th conference on Computational Humanities Research (CHR) for the paper Studying Tonal Evolution of Western Choral Music: A Corpus-Based Strategy, authored by Christof Weiß and Meinard Müller |
| 10/2018 | KlarText award for science communication of the Klaus Tschira Foundation. The award-winning article "Das ist Haydn. Ganz sicher!" was distributed as a supplement to German newspaper DIE ZEIT. |
| 04/2013 | Composition competition Festival Pablo Casals, Prades (France), 2nd prize for the piece "shading a changeable timeframe" for violin, french horn, clarinet, cello, and piano |
| 10/2011 | Youth Cultural Advancement Award (Kulturförderpreis) of the city of Amberg, Germany |
Research Stays
| 01/2021 – 12/2021 | Research stay at Audio Data Analysis and Signal Processing group, University Télécom ParisTech, France, with Prof. Geoffroy Peeters |
| 11/2014 | Research stay at Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary University of London, UK, with Dr. Matthias Mauch and Dr. Simon Dixon |
| 01/2014 – 02/2014 | Research stay at Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary University of London, UK, with Dr. Matthias Mauch and Dr. Simon Dixon |
| 05/2011 – 08/2011 | Research stay at Instituto di Fisica Corpuscular (IFIC) Valencia, Spain, with Dr. Martin Hirsch |
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2026[ to top ]
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“A Review of String Instrument Synthesis Methods for Use in Interactive Systems”, Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval (TIMSIR), vol. 9, no. 1, Art. no. 1, 2026, doi: 10.5334/tismir.267.
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“End-to-End Music-Driven Stage Lighting: A Co-Creative Framework”, in Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA), Crete, Greece, 2026. doi: 10.1145/3652037.3652054.
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“Computational Strategies for Measuring and Visualizing Tonal Structures: Towards a Large-Scale Analysis of Wagner’s Ring Cycle”, ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage (JOCCH), 2026.
2025[ to top ]
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“Voice Assessment and Vocal Biomarkers in Heart Failure: A Systematic Review”, Circulation: Heart Failure, vol. 18, no. 8, Art. no. 8, 2025, doi: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.124.012303.
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“Cross-Modal Approaches to Beat Tracking: A Case Study on Chopin Mazurkas”, Transaction of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval (TISMIR), vol. 8, no. 1, Art. no. 1, 2025, doi: 10.5334/tismir.238.
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“An Evaluation Strategy For Local Key Estimation: Exploiting Cross-Version Consistency”, in Proceedings of the 26th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR), Daejeon, South Korea, 2025, pp. 158–165. doi: 10.5281/ZENODO.17706357.
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“Interacting with Annotated and Synchronized Music Corpora on the Dezrann Web Platform”, Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval (TISMIR), vol. 8, no. 1, Art. no. 1, 2025, doi: 10.5334/TISMIR.212.
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“Poems Set to Music: A Multimodal Analysis of Schubert’s Song Cycle Winterreise”, in Proceedings of the Computational Humanities Research Conference (CHR), Luxembourg, 2025.
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“Style Evolution in Western Choral Music: A Corpus-Based Strategy”, Computational Humanities Research, vol. 1, 2025.
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“Towards Robust Music Transcription By Measuring Cross-Version Consistency In Western Classical Music”, in Proceedings of the 26th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR), Daejeon, South Korea, 2025, pp. 271–278. doi: 10.5281/ZENODO.17706389.
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“A Multidimensional Approach to Opera Analysis: Harmony, Tempo, and Dramatic Interaction in Wagner’s Siegfried”, in Proceedings of the 26th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR), Daejeon, South Korea, 2025.
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“A Computational Approach for Visualizing Tonal Structures in Music Recordings”, in Oxford Handbook for Systematic Empirical Research in the Arts, Heidelberg, Germany: Oxford University Press, 2025.
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“Visualizing Wagner: A Combined Annotational Approach to Siegfried Act III”, in Proceedings of the Music Encoding Conference (MEC), London, UK, 2025.
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“Cross-Modal Metrics for Capturing Correspondences Between Music Audio and Stage Lighting Signals”, in Proceedings of the 33rd ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM), Dublin, Ireland, 2025, pp. 528–534. doi: 10.1145/3746027.3755488.
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“Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Music Transcription: Exploiting Cross-Version Consistency”, in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Hyderabad, India, 2025.
2024[ to top ]
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“BPSD: A Coherent Multi-Version Dataset for Analyzing the First Movements of Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas”, Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval, vol. 7, no. 1, Art. no. 1, 2024, doi: 10.5334/TISMIR.196.
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“From Music Scores to Audio Recordings: Deep Pitch-Class Representations for Measuring Tonal Structures”, ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage (JOCCH), 2024, doi: doi.org/10.1145/3659103.
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“Utilizing Cross-Version Consistency for Domain Adaptation: A Case Study on Music Audio”, in International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), Tiny Papers, 2024. [Online]. Available: https://openreview.net/forum?id=ZNg3YQQKWT
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“Computational Audio and Music Analysis”, in Computational Theology, Heidelberg, Germany, 2024.
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“Towards Robust Local Key Estimation with a Musically Inspired Neural Network”, in Proceedings of the European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Lyon, France: IEEE, 2024.
2023[ to top ]
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“A Cross-Version Approach to Audio Representation Learning for Orchestral Music”, in Proceedings of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR), Milano, Italy, 2023.
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“Neue Wege für die Musikforschung: Computergestützte Analyse harmonischer Strukturen”, in Proceedings of the GI Jahrestagung, Berlin, Germany, 2023.
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“Studying Tonal Evolution of Western Choral Music: A Corpus-Based Strategy”, in Proceedings of the Computational Humanities Research Conference (CHR), in CEUR Workshop Proceedings, vol. 3558. Paris, France, 2023, pp. 687–702. [Online]. Available: https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3558/paper7862.pdf
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“Perspektiven computergestützter harmonischer Analyse: Beethovens op. 14 Nr. 1 als Gegenstand gattungsübergreifender Korpusanalyse”, in Proceedings of the GI Jahrestagung, Berlin, Germany, 2023.
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“Soft Dynamic Time Warping For Multi Pitch Estimation And Beyond”, in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Rhodes Island, Greece, 2023.
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“Wagner Ring Dataset: A Complex Opera Scenario for Music Processing and Computational Musicology”, Transaction of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval (TISMIR), vol. 6, no. 1, Art. no. 1, 2023, doi: https://doi.org/10.5334/tismir.161.
2022[ to top ]
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“JSD: A Dataset for Structure Analysis in Jazz Music”, Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval (TISMIR), vol. 5, no. 1, Art. no. 1, 2022, doi: 10.5334/tismir.131.
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“Comparing Deep Models and Evaluation Strategies for Multi-Pitch Estimation in Music Recordings”, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech & Language Processing, vol. 30, pp. 2814–2827, 2022, doi: 10.1109/TASLP.2022.3200547.
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“Mid-level Harmonic Audio Features for Musical Style Classification”, in Proceedings of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR), Bengaluru, India, 2022.
2021[ to top ]
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“’Seitensatz’ versus ’Mittelsatz’: Expositionen in Beethovens frühen Klaviersonaten zwischen zeitgenössischer Theorie und computergestützter Analyse”, in Jahrbuch 2017 des Staatlichen Instituts für Musikforschung (SIM) -- Preußischer Kulturbesitz, S. Hohmaier, Ed., Mainz: Schott Music, 2021.
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“What if the ’When’ Implies the ’What’?: Human Harmonic Analysis Datasets Clarify the Relative Role of Separate Steps in Automatic Tonal Analysis”, in Proceedings of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR), Online, 2021, pp. 229–236.
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“Learning Pitch-Class Representations from Score-Audio Pairs of Classical Music”, in Proceedings of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR), Online, 2021, pp. 746–753.
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“Schubert Winterreise Dataset: A Multimodal Scenario for Music Analysis”, ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage (JOCCH), vol. 14, no. 2, Art. no. 2, 2021, doi: 10.1145/3429743.
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“Training Deep Pitch-Class Representations With a Multi-Label CTC Loss”, in Proceedings of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR), Online, 2021, pp. 754–761.
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“Singing Voice Detection in Opera Recordings: A Case Study on Robustness and Generalization”, Electronics, vol. 10, no. 10, Art. no. 10, 2021, doi: 10.3390/electronics10101214.
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“Learning Multi-Pitch Estimation From Weakly Aligned Score-Audio Pairs Using a Multi-Label CTC Loss”, in Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA), New Paltz, USA, 2021, pp. 121–125.
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“Towards Leitmotif Activity Detection in Opera Recordings”, Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval (TISMIR), vol. 4, no. 1, Art. no. 1, 2021, doi: 10.5334/tismir.116.
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“Computergestützte Visualisierung von Tonalitätsverläufen in Musikaufnahmen. Möglichkeiten für die Korpusanalyse”, in Instrumentalmusik neben Haydn und Mozart. Analyse, Aufführungspraxis und Edition, S. Klauk, Ed., Saarbrücker Studien zur Musikwissenschaft 20, Königshausen & Neumann, 2021, pp. 107–130.
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“Towards Deep Learning Strategies for Transcribing Electroacoustic Music”, in Perception, Representations, Image, Sound, Music, R. Kronland-Martinet, S. Ystad, and M. Aramaki, Eds., Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing, 2021, pp. 48–59.
2020[ to top ]
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“Classifying Leitmotifs in Recordings of Operas by Richard Wagner”, in Proceedings of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR), Montreal, Canada, 2020, pp. 473–480.
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“Discourse Not Dualism: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue On Sonata Form in Beethoven’s Early Piano Sonatas”, in Proceedings of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR), Montréal, Canada, 2020, pp. 199–206.
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“Local Key Estimation in Music Recordings: A Case Study Across Songs, Versions, and Annotators”, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech & Language Processing, vol. 28, pp. 2919–2932, 2020, doi: 10.1109/TASLP.2020.3030485.
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“Dagstuhl ChoirSet: A Multitrack Dataset for MIR Research on Choral Singing”, Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval (TISMIR), vol. 3, no. 1, Art. no. 1, 2020, doi: 10.5334/tismir.48.
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“Local Key Estimation in Classical Music Recordings: A Cross-Version Study on Schubert’s Winterreise”, in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Barcelona, Spain, 2020, pp. 501–505. doi: 10.1109/ICASSP40776.2020.9054642.
2019[ to top ]
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“Mid-Level Chord Transition Features for Musical Style Analysis”, in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Brighton, UK, 2019, pp. 341–345. doi: 10.1109/ICASSP.2019.8682293.
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“Investigating CNN-based Instrument Family Recognition for Western Classical Music Recordings”, in Proceedings of the 20th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR), Delft, The Netherlands, 2019, pp. 612–619.
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“Towards Deep Learning Strategies for Transcribing Electroacoustic Music”, in Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research (CMMR), Marseille, France, 2019, pp. 450–461.
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“Towards Measuring Intonation Quality of Choir Recordings: A Case Study on Bruckner’s Locus Iste”, in Proceedings of the 20th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR), Delft, The Netherlands, 2019, pp. 276–283.
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“Investigating Style Evolution of Western Classical Music: A Computational Approach”, Musicae Scientiae, vol. 23, no. 4, Art. no. 4, 2019, doi: 10.1177/1029864918757595.
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“Cross-Version Singing Voice Detection in Opera Recordings: Challenges for Supervised Learning”, in Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases - Proceedings of the International Workshops of ECML PKDD 2019, Part II, in Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol. 1168. Würzburg, Germany: Springer, 2019, pp. 429–436.
2018[ to top ]
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“Computational Corpus Analysis: A Case Study on Jazz Solos”, in Proceedings of the 19th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR), Paris, France, 2018, pp. 416–423.
2017[ to top ]
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“Computational Methods for Tonality-Based Style Analysis of Classical Music Audio Recordings”, PhD dissertation, Ilmenau University of Technology, Ilmenau, Germany, 2017. [Online]. Available: http://www.db-thueringen.de/receive/dbt_mods_00032890
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“Versionsübergreifende Visualisierung harmonischer Verläufe: Eine Fallstudie zu Wagners Ring-Zyklus”, in Proceedings of the Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI), Chemnitz, Germany, 2017, pp. 205–217. doi: 10.18420/in2017_14.
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“Exploring Tonal-Dramatic Relationships in Richard Wagner’s Ring Cycle”, in Proceedings of the 18th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR), Suzhou, China, 2017, pp. 642–648.
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“A Multi-Version Approach for Transferring Measure Annotations Between Music Recordings”, in Proceedings of the AES International Conference on Semantic Audio, Erlangen, Germany, 2017, pp. 148–155.
2016[ to top ]
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“Analyzing Measure Annotations for Western Classical Music Recordings”, in Proceedings of the 17th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR), New York, USA, 2016, pp. 517–523.
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“Möglichkeiten der computergestützten Erkennung und Visualisierung harmonischer Strukturen -- eine Fallstudie zu Richard Wagners ‘Die Walküre’”, in Bericht zur Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Musikforschung (GfM) 2015 in Halle/Saale, W. Auhagen and W. Hirschmann, Eds., Mainz, Germany: Schott Campus, 2016.
2015[ to top ]
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“Tonal Complexity Features for Style Classification of Classical Music”, in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Brisbane, Australia, 2015, pp. 688–692.
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“On the Impact of Key Detection Performance for Identifying Classical Music Styles”, in Proceedings of the 16th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR), Málaga, Spain, 2015, pp. 45–51.
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“Zum Scherzo aus Hans Rotts 1. Sinfonie”, in Mythos Handwerk?, A. Jeßulat, Ed., Würzburg, Germany: Königshausen & Neumann, 2015, pp. 187–212.
2014[ to top ]
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“Quantifying and Visualizing Tonal Complexity”, in Proceedings of the 9th Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology (CIM), Berlin, Germany, 2014, pp. 184–187.
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“Timbre-Invariant Audio Features for Style Analysis of Classical Music”, in Proceedings of the Joint Conference 40th ICMC and 11th SMC, Athens, Greece, 2014, pp. 1461–1468.
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“Chroma-Based Scale Matching for Audio Tonality Analysis”, in Proceedings of the 9th Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology (CIM), Berlin, Germany, 2014, pp. 168–173. [Online]. Available: https://www.audiolabs-erlangen.de/fau/assistant/weiss/CIM14_WeissHabryka_ScaleMatching.pdf
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“Automatic Style Classification of Jazz Records with Respect to Rhythm, Tempo, and Tonality”, in Proceedings of the 9th Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology (CIM), 2014, pp. 162–167.
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“A Mid-Level Approach to Local Tonality Analysis: Extracting Key Signatures from Audio”, in Proceedings of the 53rd AES International Conference on Semantic Audio, London, UK, 2014.
2013[ to top ]
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“Global Key Extraction from Classical Music Audio Recordings Based on the Final Chord”, in Proceedings of the 10th Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC), Stockholm, Sweden, 2013, pp. 742–747.
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“Supersymmetric Type-III Seesaw Mechanism: Lepton Flavor Violation and LHC Phenomenology”, Physical Review D, vol. 87, no. 1, Art. no. 1, Jan. 2013, doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.87.013010.
- Von Audiodaten lernen: Über die quantiative Analyse musikalischer Stilistik, The Science of Music, Science Notes, Toniq Club Heidelberg, January 22nd, 2026.
- Computational Analysis of Music Audio Recordings: Corpora, Concepts, and Algorithms, Computational Musicology Special Interest Group (SIG), Music Technology Group, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, November 28th, 2025.
- Analyzing Music Audio Recordings: Challenges & Chances for Machine Learning, CAIDAS scientific opening, JMU Würzburg, October 30th, 2025.
- Computational Analysisof Music Audio Recordings: Strategies for Musicology, Vortragsreihe philtag 18, ZPD, JMU Würzburg, Feburary 7th, 2025.
- Keynote: Computergestützte Analyse von Musikstilen in Audiodaten: Eine interdisziplinäre Gratwanderung mit "alten Bekannten" aus der Physik, Graduation ceremony, Fakultät für Physik und Astronomie, JMU Würzburg, June 8th, 2024.
- Computational Analysis of Music Audio Recordings: Corpora, Concepts, and Algorithms, Music Informatics Seminar, Algomus team, Lille University, France, April 18th, 2024.
- Computational Analysis of Music Audio Recordings: A Cross-Version Approach, Annual Meeting of the GI Beirat der Universitätsprofessor(inn)en (GIBU), Schloss Dagstuhl, Leibniz Center for Informatics, March 25th, 2024.
- Computational Analysis of Music Audio Recordings: How Well Can Computers Listen (to Music)? Workshop textklang+, Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach, Janury 19th, 2024
- MIR for the Computational Humanities: A Cross-Version Approach, ADASP meeting, Télécom Paris, LCTI, Institute Polytechnique de Paris, December 5th, 2023
- Keynote: Computergestützte Musikanalyse: Korpora, Konzepte und Algorithmen, Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Musikforschung (GfM), Universität des Saarlandes, October 5th, 2023
- Computergestützte Musikanalyse: Szenarien, Methoden und Evaluationsprobleme, Workshop: Datenanalyse für die Digital Humanities: Projekte, Methoden, Einsichten, Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science (CAIDAS), JMU Würzburg, February 8th, 2023
- Computational Analysis of Music Audio Recordings: Exploiting Raw Data for the Humanities, AI talks, Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science (CAIDAS), JMU Würzburg, January 24th, 2023
- Computergestützte Analyse von Musikaufnahmen: Korpora, Konzepte und Algorithmen, Arbeitskreis Philologie und Digitalität, Zentrum für Philologie und Digitalität (ZPD), JMU Würzburg, December 15th, 2022
- Neue Wege für die Musikforschung mittels Digitaler Signalverarbeitung (with Rainer Kleinertz and Meinard Müller), Ringvorlesung Geisteswissenschaften und Informatik im Dialog – Aktuelle Perspektiven der Digital Humanitities, Musikwissenschaft Univ. d. Saarlandes / Trier Center for Digital Humanities, January 10th, 2022
- Musikwissenschaft und Informatik im Dialog: Möglichkeiten der computergestützten harmonischen Analyse (with Rainer Kleinertz), Vortragsreihe Praxis der Digital Humanities, Trier Center for Digital Humanities, Universität Trier, January 7th, 2021
- Neue Wege für die Musikforschung mittels Digitaler Signalverarbeitung (with Meinard Müller), Ringvorlesung Tech Talk, Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Digitale Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, December 10th, 2019.
- Exploiting Audio Data for Musicological Research, 2nd Heidelberg Computational Humanities Summer School (HCH19), Heidelberg University, July 2019
- Das ist Haydn, ganz sicher! – Über die automatische Erkennung von Musikstilen, Wissenschaft im Schloss, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, June 17th, 2019. Video of the talk
- Wie gut können Computer hören? Die Analyse von Musikaufnahmen als interdisziplinäres Forschungsfeld, Collegium Alexandrinum, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, May 9th, 2019. Video of the talk
- Das ist Haydn, ganz sicher!, Max-Reger-Gymnasium Amberg (Germany), February 2019
- Wie gut können Computer hören? – Über die Anwendung musiktheoretischer Konzepte auf Audiodaten, Hochschule für Musik Würzburg, December 2018
- Computergestützte Analyse von Musikaufnahmen am Beispiel von Richard Wagners Ring-Zyklus, Institutskolloquium des Instituts für Musikforschung, JMU Würzburg, July 2017
- Computergestützte Analyse von Musikaufnahmen – Neue Möglichkeiten für die Musikwissenschaften, Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe, November 2016
Organization of Scientific Events
- Chair (with Fabian Moss), International Conference on Computational and Cognitive Musicology (ICCCM), Würzburg (Germany), September 2026
- Tutorial Chair (with Hyeong-Seok Choi), International Society for Music Information Conference (ISMIR), Seoul (South Korea), September 2025
- Chair (with Manuel Burghardt), 4. Workshop der GI-Fachgruppe "Informatik und Digital Humanities", INFORMATIK Festival 2023, Berlin, September 2023
- Music Chair (with Martin Gasser), International Society for Music Information Conference (ISMIR), Delft (The Netherlands), November 2019
- Organizer, Seminar Musiktechnologie im 21. Jahrhundert – Vom mp3-Player zum virtuellen Musikwissenschaftler for fellows of the Stiftung der Deutschen Wirtschaft (sdw), Ilmenau (Germany), July 2015
Editorial Activities and Society Activities
- Member of the Board of Directors of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), 2022–2023
- Member of the Editorial board, ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, since 2022
Reviewing
- Proceedings of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (Meta-Reviewer)
- Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval
- Proceedings Conference on Computational Humanities Research (CHR)
- Journal of Cultural Analytics
- Music & Science
- IEEE Signal Processing Magazine
- IEEE Access
- Musicae Scientiae
- Applied Sciences
- Evolutionary Human Sciences
- Scientometrics
- ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage
- IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing
- Neural Computing and Applications
Participations
- Dagstuhl Seminar: Learning with Music Signals, Schloss Dagstuhl, Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, Wadern (Germany), July 2024
- Dagstuhl Seminar: Deep Learning and Knowledge Integration for Music Audio Analysis, Schloss Dagstuhl, Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, Wadern (Germany), January 2019
- Dagstuhl Seminar: Computational Methods for Melody and Voice Processing in Music Recordings, Schloss Dagstuhl, Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, Wadern (Germany), January 2019
- Lorentz Workshop: Computational Ethnomusicology: Methodologies for a New Field, Lorentz International Center for Scientific Workshops, Leiden (The Netherlands), March 2017
- Dagstuhl Seminar: Computational Music Structure Analysis, Schloss Dagstuhl, Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, Wadern (Germany), March 2016
- Summer School: Computational Music Analysis at the Joint Conference 40th ICMC and 11th SMC, University of Athens (Greece), September 2014
Current Courses
- Lecture: Practical Foundations of Machine Learning, for BA Digital Humanities, JMU Würzburg, Winter Term 2025/26
- Seminar: Music Processing, for MSc Computer Science, MSc Artificial Intelligence, MSc AI&XR, JMU Würzburg, Winter Term 2025/26
Previous Courses
- Lecture: Music Information Retrieval for MSc Computer Science, MSc Artificial Intelligence, MSc AI&XR, MA Digital Humanities, JMU Würzburg Summer Term 2025
- Seminar (with Fotis Jannidis, Benjamin Henzel): Multimodal Analysis of Poems set to Music, for MA Digital Humanities, JMU Würzburg, Summer Term 2025
- Seminar: Music Processing, for MSc Computer Science, MSc AI&XR, JMU Würzburg, Winter Term 2024/25
- Lecture: Music Information Retrieval for MSc Computer Science, MSc xtAI, MA Digital Humanities, JMU Würzburg Summer Term 2024
- Praktikum: Music and Audio Processing, for MSc Computer Science, MSc xtAI, JMU Würzburg, Summer Term 2024
- Seminar: Computational Audio and Music Analysis for MA Digital Humanities, JMU Würzburg, Winter Term 2023/24
- Seminar: Music Processing, for MSc Computer Science, MSc xtAI, JMU Würzburg, Winter Term 2023/24
- Lecture: Music Information Retrieval for MSc Computer Science, MSc xtAI, MA Digital Humanities, JMU Würzburg Summer Term 2023
- Lecture: Advanced Audio-Based Music Processing, University of Music Karlsruhe, Summer Term 2021
- Lecture: Digitale Musikanalyse: Wie gut können Computer hören? for students of B.A. Digitale Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften (DGSW) and B.Sc. Elektrotechnik-Elektronik-Informationstechnik (EEI), Summer Term 2020
- Lecture: Advanced Audio-Based Music Processing, University of Music Karlsruhe, Summer Term 2020
- Lecture: Harmony Analysis (part of course Music Processing Analysis, Prof. Meinard Müller), Winter Term 2019/20
- Seminar: Music Processing (part of Audio Processing Seminar), Winter Term 2019/20
- Lab: Short-Time Fourier Transform and Chroma Features (part of Audio Processing Laboratory), Summer Term 2019
- Lecture: Harmony Analysis (part of course Music Processing Analysis, Prof. Meinard Müller), Winter Term 2018/19
- Seminar: Audio Decomposition and Structure Analysis (part of Audio Processing Seminar), Winter Term 2018/19
- Seminar: Chord Recognition and Audio Decomposition (part of Audio Processing Seminar), Winter Term 2017/18
- Lecture: Harmony Analysis (part of course Music Processing Analysis, Prof. Meinard Müller), Winter Term 2017/18
- Seminar: Automatic Chord Recognition from Audio Recordings (part of Audio Processing Seminar), Summer Term 2017
- Seminar: Reproducible Audio Research (part of Audio Processing Seminar), Winter Term 2016/17
- Lab: Short-Time Fourier Transform and Chroma Features (part of Audio Processing Laboratory), Summer Term 2016
- Lab: Short-Time Fourier Transform and Chroma Features (part of Audio Processing Laboratory), Winter Term 2015/16
- Lecture: Music Information Retrieval III – Tonality and Structure Analysis (part of course Audio Systems Technology), Ilmenau University of Technology, Winter Term 2014/15
- Exercises: Theoretische Mechanik und Quantenmechanik für Lehramtsstudierende der Physik, University of Würzburg, Summer Term 2012
Tutorials and Workshops
- Workshop: Music Information Retrieval (with Frank Zalkow), University of Music Karlsruhe, June 11–14, 2019
- Workshop: "Computergestützte Analyse von Musikaufnahmen – ein Beispiel für interdisziplinäre Forschung", Woche der Forschung 2019, University of Bamberg, February 26, 2019
- Seminar: "Wie gut können Computer hören? – Über die Anwendung musiktheoretischer Konzepte auf Audiodaten", University of Music Würzburg, December 12, 2018
- Workshop: Music Information Retrieval (with Frank Zalkow), University of Music Karlsruhe, July 10–13, 2018
- Tutorial: A Basic Introduction to Audio-Related Music Information Retrieval (with Meinard Müller), 18th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR), Suzhou (China), October 23, 2017
- Tutorial: Automatisierte Methoden der Musikverarbeitung (with Stefan Balke, Meinard Müller), 47. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI), Chemnitz (Germany), September 25, 2017
- Meisterklasse Music Information Retrieval (with Prof. Meinard Müller), University of Music Karlsruhe, April 5–7, 2017
- Seminar: Musiktechnologie im 21. Jahrhundert – Vom mp3-Player zum virtuellen Musikwissenschaftler for fellows of the Foundation of German Business (sdw), Fraunhofer IDMT Ilmenau (Germany), July 3–4, 2015
Supervised Student Theses
- Isabel Müller, Quantitative Analysis of Western Films: Audio, Camera, and Cross-Modal Interplay, Bachelor Thesis Digital Humanities, JMU Würzburg 2025.
- Jan Esperer, Sound Activity Detection by Demixing: A Case Study on Western Films, Bachelor Thesis Computer Science, JMU Würzburg, 2025.
- Sapana Gupta, Colorization of Egyptian Relief Images Master Thesis Computer Science, JMU Würzburg, 2025.
- Leonie Schafferhans, Synchronizing Heterogeneous Music Data Using Learned Representations, Bachelor Thesis Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, JMU Würzburg, 2025.
- Marc-Philipp Knechtle, Beyond Solo Piano: Comparing Instrument-Agnostic Music Transcription Models on Polyphonic Classical Music Recordings, Master Thesis Computer Science, JMU Würzburg, 2025.
- Moritz Hering, Towards Lightweight and Causal Neural Networks for Instrument-agnostic Music Transcription, Master Thesis Computer Science, JMU Würzburg, 2025.
- Benjamin Henzel, Stylistic Evolution of Composers in Western Classical Music: An Audio-Based Corpus Study, Master Thesis Digital Humanities, JMU Würzburg, 2024.
- Stefan Mühl, An Analysis of Audiovisual Features in Movies across Time and Genres, Bachelor Thesis Digital Humanities, JMU Würzburg 2024.
- Michael Kohl, Generating Stage Lighting Controls from Music Audio Input, Master Thesis Computer Science, JMU Würzburg, 2023.
- Sebastian Strahl, Learning Multi-Instrument Pitch Representations from Score–Audio Pairs, ASC Major Research Project, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, 2022.
- Hans-Ulrich Berendes, Evaluating Deep Pitch Class Features for Chord Recognition, ASC Minor Research Project, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, 2022.
- Benjamin Brunner, Evaluating Tuning Estimation Algorithms for Music Processing Applications, Master Thesis, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, 2021.
- Florian Schuberth, A Cross-Version Study on Computational Harmony Analysis of Music Recordings, Master Thesis, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, 2021.
- Johannes Zeitler, Extracting Tonal Features for Music Analysis Using Deep Learning, ASC Major Research Project, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, 2020.
- Tim Zunner, Deep Learning Techniques for Tonal Analysis of Music Recordings, ASC Major Research Project, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, 2020.
- Leo Brütting, Hierarchical Tonal Analysis of Music Signals, Bachelor Thesis, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, 2019.
- Fabian Brand, Chord Transition Features for Style Classification of Music Recordings, Master Thesis, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, 2018.
- Sebastian Preuße, Entwicklung eines Algorithmus zur segmentweisen Klassifikation von Instrumentenfamilien, Bachelor Thesis, Ilmenau University of Technology, 2016. Bibtex
- Andreas Männchen, Entwicklung und Implementierung eines Verfahrens zur automatischen und echtzeitfähigen Erkennung von Akkorden sowie wiederholten Harmoniefolgen in Gitarrensignalen, Master Thesis, TU Ilmenau, 2015.
- Robert Gräfe, Automatische Analyse und Klassifizierung von Audiodaten anhand von Tonartverläufen, Bachelor Thesis, TU Ilmenau, 2015.
- Maximilian Schaab, Automatische Klassifikation klassischer Musikstile anhand relativer Tonhöhenklassen, Bachelor Thesis, TU Ilmenau, 2015.
