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Meinard Müller

Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik
Department D4 - Computer Graphics
Building 46.1, Room 205
Campus E1 4
66123 Saarbrücken
Germany

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Phone: +49 681 9325 405
Fax: +49 681 9325 499

Research Interests

Multimedia Information Retrieval
Music Information Retrieval (MIR)
Music Processing
Analysis and Classification of 3D Motion Capture Data
Digital Signal Processing
Computational Group Theory
Combinatorics

Selected/Recent Publications (Further Publications)

Meinard Müller
Information Retrieval for Music and Motion
318 p. 136 illus. 39 in color, hardcover
ISBN: 978-3-540-74047-6
Springer

M. Müller, P. Grosche, F. Wiering (2009): Robust Segmentation and Annotation of Folk Song Recordings. Proc. 10th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), Kobe, Japan, Oct. 2009, accepted.
M. Müller, V. Konz, A. Scharfstein, S. Ewert, M. Clausen (2009): Towards Automated Extraction of Tempo Parameters from Expressive Music Recordings. Proc. 10th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), Kobe, Japan, Oct. 2009, accepted.
C. Fremerey, M. Clausen, M. Müller, S. Ewert (2009): Sheet Music-Audio Identification. Proc. 10th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), Kobe, Japan, Oct. 2009, accepted.
P. Grosche, M. Müller (2009): A Mid-level Representation for Capturing Dominant Tempo and Pulse Information in Music Recordings. Proc. 10th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), Kobe, Japan, Oct. 2009, accepted.
P. Grosche, M. Müller (2009): Computing Predominant Local Periodicity Information in Music Recordings. Proc. IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA), New Paltz, NY, Oct. 2009, accepted.
A. Baak, B. Rosenhahn, M. Müller, H.-P. Seidel (2009): Stabilizing Motion Tracking Using Retrieved Motion Priors. Proc. International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Kyoto, Japan, Oct. 2009, accepted.
M. Müller, A. Baak, H.-P. Seidel (2009): Efficient and Robust Annotation of Motion Capture Data. Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA),, New Orleans, USA, Aug. 2009, accepted.
M. Müller, S. Ewert, S. Kreuzer (2009): Making Chroma Features More Robust to Timbre Changes. Proc. International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Taipei, Taiwan, Apr. 2009.
S. Ewert, M. Müller, P. Grosche (2009): High Resolution Audio Synchronization Using Chroma Onset Features. Proc. International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Taipei, Taiwan, Apr. 2009.
F. Kurth, M. Müller (2008): Efficient Index-based Audio Matching. IEEE Trans. on Speech and Audio Processing, 16, No. 2, 382-395, Feb. 2008.
M. Müller, D. Appelt (2008): Path-constrained Partial Music Synchronization. Proc. International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2008), Las Vegas.

Teaching

Advanced Seminar: Music Processing, Winter Term 2009/2010
Lecture: Music Processing, Summer Term 2009
Lecture: Ringvorlesung "Perspektiven der Informatik", Information Retrieval for Music and Motion, Winter Term 2008/2009
Advanced Seminar: Music Information Retrieval, Winter Term 2008/2009
Lecture: Information Retrieval for Music and Motion, Summer Term 2008
Teaching, Informatik III, Universität Bonn

Recent Positions

12/2007 - present	Senior Researcher, Cluster of Excellence, Multimodal Computing and Interaction, Saarbrücken, Germany
09/2007 - 11/2007	Senior Researcher, Max Planck Center for Visual Computing and Communication, Saarbrücken, Germany
04/2003 - 08/2007	Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Universität Bonn, Germany
04/2002 - 03/2003	Postdoctoral Research, Mathematical Department, Keio University, Japan

Education

2007: Habilitation, Computer Science, University of Bonn
2001: Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Bonn
1997: Diplom, Mathematics, University of Bonn
1988: Abitur, Otto-Hahn-Gymnasium Böblingen

Research/Study Stays

02/2006 - 03/2006	Postdoctoral research stay, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, (JSPS Post-doctoral Fellowship for Foreign Researchers)
04/2002 - 03/2003	Postdoctoral research stay, Mathematical Department, Keio University, Japan (Monbukagakusho scholarship program)
09/2001 - 03/2002	Japanese Language Program, Keio University, Japan (DAAD scholarship Stipendium zum Studium ostasiatischer Sprachen)
07/2000 - 09/2000	Research stay, Hitachi Central Research Laboratory, Japan (JISTEC-REES Program)
02/2000 - 03/2000	Research stay, Mathematical Department, University of California at Berkeley
08/1999 - 06/2001	Ph.D. Scholarship, German National Merit Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)
09/1997 - 08/1998	Japanese Language Program, Keio University, Japan (East-Asia-Scholarship, Daimler-Benz AG and Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)
07/1997 - 08/1997	Study visit (Japanese), Lewis & Clark College, Portland, USA, (Waseda/Oregon Summer Program)
08/1993 - 06/1994	Study visit (mathematics, music), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA (Exchange program Akademisches Auslandsamt Bonn)

Private

Hobbies

Piano
Running
Unihockey