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June 2026
Centre for Multimodal AI at CVPR 2026
12 June 2026On 3–7 June, CMAI researchers participated in the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2026, held in Denver, Colorado, USA. CVPR is widely regarded as the premier annual conference in computer vision and one of the most prestigious venues in AI, bringing together leading researchers from academia and ... [more]
Centre for Multimodal AI at ICML 2026
11 June 2026On 6-11 July, CMAI researchers will participate at the 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), taking place in Seoul, South Korea. ICML is an international academic conference in machine learning held annually since 1980. It is the oldest and, along with NeurIPS and ICLR, one of the three primary conferences ... [more]
Rethinking hearing aids: £607k award for innovative research at Queen Mary
5 June 2026Dr Aidan Hogg, Lecturer in Computer Science at the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, has been awarded a prestigious £607,233 Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) New Investigator Award to lead a new project rethinking hearing assistive technology. The three-year project, Spatial Hearing Augmentation to Improve Hearing Assistive ... [more]
May 2026
Marcus Pearce delivers keynote address at two conferences
Centre for Human-Centred Computing
4 May 2026Marcus Pearce has delivered two keynote addresses at the Society for Education, Music and Psychology Research (SEMPRE) 2026 conference at the University of Cambridge and at the International Conference on Music and Sleep at Aarhus University, Denmark. These presentations follow the publication of his book Learning to listen, listening to learn ... [more]
April 2026
Queen Mary hosts inaugural event of new London Interdisciplinary Music Research Initiative
Centre for Human-Centred Computing
30 April 2026Yesterday (29th April 2026), the Centre for Digital Music (C4DM), part of the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, hosted the inaugural event of the London Interdisciplinary Music Research Initiative (LIMRI) - bringing together leading researchers and practitioners from across London to explore the science, scholarship, and art of ... [more]
Centre for Multimodal AI at ICASSP 2026
20 April 2026On 4-8 May 2026, several CMAI researchers will participate at the 2026 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2026). ICASSP is the leading conference in the field of signal processing and the flagship event of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. As in previous years, the Centre for Multimodal AI ... [more]
Centre for Multimodal AI at ICLR 2026
9 April 2026On 23-27 April, CMAI researchers will participate at the Fourteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2026), taking place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. ICLR is the premier gathering of professionals dedicated to the advancement of the branch of artificial intelligence called representation learning, but generally referred to as deep learning. ... [more]
March 2026
CMAI PhD Student Completes Research Fellowship at UK Parliament
30 March 2026CMAI PhD student Alexander Williams recently completed a 3 month research fellowship at the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST) following a successful application to the UKRI Policy Internship Scheme. POST is an impartial research and knowledge exchange service based in the UK Parliament. They work to ensure cutting-edge research ... [more]
January 2026
Reimagining music videos with AI: CMAI research breaks new ground
6 January 2026Yinghao Ma, a PhD candidate in the Centre for Multimodal AI at Queen Mary University of London, has helped develop AutoMV, the first open-source AI system capable of generating complete music videos directly from full-length songs. Music-to-video generation remains a major challenge for generative AI. While recent video models can ... [more]
Women in Higher Education Network plus grant
Centre for Human-Centred Computing
1 January 2026Ekaterina Ivanova and Anna Xambo Sedo have been awarded a grant from the QMUL Erica fund worth £13,200 to support the Women in Higher Education Network plus (WHEN+), until July 2027. The Women in Higher Education Network (WHEN) was founded in 2023 at EECS with the aim of building a strong and sustainable ... [more]