Past Events
July 2026 | |
| Fri 24 Jul 2026 15:00 - 16:00 |  Seminar: What AI Can't Hear: Human Judgment in Accessible Audio DesignCentre for Multimodal AI For decades, accessibility was treated as an afterthought, a ramp added after the building was already built. Today, AI risks becoming the new missing ramp: assumed to solve access problems that, without human oversight, it quietly creates. In her second edition of Inclusive Design for a Digital World, Reginé Gilbert argues that AI is not judgment, and that automated tools test against a model user that most real users simply aren't. This talk examines where AI audio tools succeed, where... |
| Wed 15 Jul 2026 15:00 - 16:00 |  Seminar: Designing Interactive Generative Music Systems for Emotional WellbeingCentre for Multimodal AI Title: Designing Interactive Generative Music Systems for Emotional Wellbeing Abstract: Within music therapy, the act of making music, exercising creative control, and developing a sense of ownership over a musical work has been proven to amplify the efficacy of music as a wellness solution over consuming static content. Yet receiving these enhanced benefits typically requires technical expertise and years of experience to achieve. Generative music platforms have been marketed as making... |
| Wed 1 Jul 2026 11:00 - 12:00 |  Seminar: Implicit music evaluation and the dynamics of popularityCentre for Multimodal AI The seminar is structured in two parts. The first part will present a new testing procedure for the implicit assessment of the emotional-semantic content of music. The procedure is based on the well-known effects of film music that can shift the emotional-semantic perception of visual scenes and it has been developed in the context of evaluating audio branding assets. The second part considers evaluation and liking at the collective level and presents a new computational model for analysing the... |
June 2026 | |
| Wed 24 Jun 2026 15:00 - 16:00 |  Seminar: Songwriting as a System: The Semantic Machine, a Song That Changes with the World Around YouCentre for Multimodal AI Abstract Recorded songs are often defined by repetition: one structure, one set of lyrics, one definitive version. This talk proposes an alternative model of songwriting through Transmutable Music, an overarching term for music that can change in response to data, interaction, system behaviour, and contextual information, creating new kinds of listening experiences. The talk presents The Semantic Machine, a mobile-app artwork and song-based transmutable composition developed by Tracy Redhead... |
| Thu 11 Jun 2026 15:00 - 16:00 | Seminar: CIS seminar: Aligning Data Strategies in 3D Vision: From Virtual Humans to Neural Rendering and VLM Reasoning Centre for Multimodal AI You are cordially invited to the Centre for Intelligent Sensing seminar from an external speaker: Dr Youngkyoon Jang: Aligning Data Strategies in 3D Vision: From Virtual Humans to Neural Rendering and VLM Reasoning When: Thursday, 11th June, 15... |
| Wed 3 Jun 2026 11:30 - 12:30 |  Seminar: Keeping Score: Computational Methods for the Analysis of Encoded “Symbolic” Musical ScoresCentre for Multimodal AI This talk presents work in progress from a large project combining the book Keeping Score with an associated software library, AMADS. The project focuses on computational methods for the analysis of encoded, or "symbolic", musical scores. For the C4DM audience, the talk will highlight new algorithms and ideas from the project's "Step Further" sections, including musically informed approaches to reconstructing fractional values from floating-point errors, a definition of syncopation based on... |
| Wed 3 Jun 2026 16:00 - 17:00 |  Seminar: Human behaviour analysis and motion modelling Centre for Multimodal AI Abstract: Large language models contain rich and diverse knowledge, giving them the potential to perform well on tasks far beyond language. However, directly applying them to non-linguistic tasks such as human behavior analysis or motion modeling is often challenging, because the inputs for these tasks (e.g., videos or skeletal sequences) are not naturally compatible with the desired input of language models. This talk introduces a "linguistic" perspective on addressing this issue: transforming... |
May 2026 | |
| Wed 27 May 2026 15:00 - 16:00 |  Seminar: Adaptation and generalization to head-related transfer functionsCentre for Multimodal AI Abstract: Adaptation to altered or non-individual head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) has been widely studied in individuals with normal hearing. Studies have shown that after an adaptation period, individuals can significantly improve their sound localization performance with altered auditory cues. Recently, it has been shown that after training with one set of HRTFs, improvements can also be observed with another set, a phenomenon referred to as generalization. This talk will discuss the... |
| Thu 21 May 2026 15:00 - 16:00 |  Seminar: C4DM Seminar: The importance of multimodal data in the computational understanding of musicCentre for Multimodal AI Abstract: Music is multimodal, perceived not only through hearing but also through vision, touch, and movement. Humans naturally integrate these sensory streams to interpret a music performance. Similarly, in order to achieve a high-level computational music understanding, multimodal data is essential. This approach is put into practice through a five-category framework for music context, which guides computational systems to analyze instrumentation, performance dynamics, spatial arrangements... |
| Thu 7 May 2026 15:00 - 16:00 |  Seminar: Designing and Evaluating auditory-cognitive training through the HEaring and LIstening eXperience (HELIX) appCentre for Multimodal AI Abstract: In recent years, serious games have become a promising way to support both auditory and cognitive training, especially because they help keep people motivated and engaged. In this seminar, I'll share how we used a participatory design approach to create HELIX, a new auditory‑cognitive training app built around a sentence‑discrimination and recall task set within six everyday listening scenarios. The development process involved two cycles of participatory design with 18... |
March 2026 | |
| Wed 18 Mar 2026 15:00 - 16:00 | Seminar: Antonio Criscuolo: Intra- and inter-individual variability in body-brain-behavioral rhythms: an ongoing multimodal study with smart wearables Centre for Multimodal AI Abstract: Our sensory landscape features a multitude of semi-periodic input streams: there are temporal regularities in speech and music, as well as in bodily physiological activity. The brain displays (semi-)rhythmic patterns of activity, too:... |
| Wed 11 Mar 2026 15:00 - 16:00 | Seminar: Orchisama Das: Efficient rendering of room acoustics in complex and connected spaces for eXtended Reality applications Centre for Multimodal AI Abstract XR applications such as gaming require high-quality 6DoF acoustic rendering to achieve perceptual immersion. In Virtual Reality (VR), room geometry and materials are known, whereas in Augmented Reality (AR) they must be inferred from... |
February 2026 | |
| Tue 17 Feb 2026 14:00 - 15:00 | Seminar: You (Neil) Zhang: From Neural Fields to Perception-Informed Learning: Scalable and Perceptually Grounded HRTF Personalization Centre for Multimodal AI C4DM Seminar: You (Neil) Zhang: From Neural Fields to Perception-Informed Learning: Scalable and Perceptually Grounded HRTF Personalization QMUL, School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science Centre for Digital Music Seminar Series ... |
January 2026 | |
| Fri 23 Jan 2026 14:00 - 15:00 | Seminar: CMAI Seminar: Zhaokai Wang Centre for Multimodal AI C4DM Seminar: Zhaokai Wang: From Frames to Beats: Progress and Challenges in Video-to-Music Generation QMUL, School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science Centre for Digital Music Seminar Series Seminar by: Zhaokai Wang Date/time:... |