2 PhD positions starting in October 2026. We are seeking motivated researchers who wish to contribute to cutting-edge research in one of these areas:
Sound and Music Representation Learning
Machine Listening
Computational Musicology.
Information and applications: www.upf.edu/web/mtg/home...
Xavier Serra participates in the MIR Community-building Workshop on Music AI. This two-day event is hosted at New York University (NYU) Abu Dhabi on February 14-15, and functions as a "warm-up" for the upcoming ISMIR 2026. www.upf.edu/web/mtg/home...
Next week Genis Plaja defends his PhD thesis "Deep Learning Approaches for Music Processing in a Computational Musicology Context".
📅 February 13th 2026 at 10:00h (CET)
📍 UPF Poblenou campus (room 55.309 Tanger building) and online
www.upf.edu/web/mtg/home...
Next week Hyon Kim defends his PhD thesis "Piano Performance Analysis via Dynamics Estimation and Feedback Classification".
📅 January 27th 2026 at 10:00h (CET)
📍 UPF Poblenou campus (room 51.100 La Nau building) and online
www.upf.edu/web/mtg/home...
@enginyeria-upf.bsky.social
When Pamplona sounds different: the soundscape transformation of San Fermin through intelligent acoustic sensors and a sound repository.
www.upf.edu/web/mtg/home...
Xavier Serra receives the Acadèmia d’Excelència award granted by the Ministry of Research and Universities from the Generalitat de Catalunya to support his research activities. Congratulations! www.upf.edu/web/mtg/home...
El video de la xerrada ja està disponible aqui: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKAc...
📰 Els professors d'EnginyEria UPF, Angel Lozano i Xavier Serra, reben els ajuts Acadèmia d'Excel·lència 2025 de la Generalitat de Catalunya
🗣️ "Els ajuts tenen com a objectiu contribuir a intensificar la tasca de recerca del professorat de les universitats catalanes"
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Xavier Serra oferirá una xerrada sobre els 50 anys d'experimentació musical a Phonos en el marc de l'exposició de la Biblioteca de Catalunya que celebra l'aniversari d'aquesta institució pionera. El 16 de desembre, 18h a la Biblioteca de Catalunya i per streaming:
www.upf.edu/web/phonos/i...
Interview with Frederic Font and Fito Conesa about the Freesound 20 years installation on the Radio 4 (RTVE) program La Barrera del So www.rtve.es/play/audios/...
The sound installation "Sounds to be protected. 20 Years of Freesound" will be exhibited at the Poblenou Campus @upf.edu from Nov 17 to 30. Curated in collaboration with the artist Fito Conesa, it reflects on the fragility of sound and its role as intangible heritage. www.upf.edu/web/mtg/home...
A vital set of talks on the meaning of sound, technology for accessing it, and planning for the future of freesound -- including coping with the age of AI.
Happy 20th, freesound. The internet will never die.
@mtg-upf.bsky.social h/t @rutgermuller.nl
🏆 It's a pleasure to announce the winner of the Dolby Barcelona Scientific Paper Award 2025: Guillem Cortès Sebastià for PeakNetFP, a scalable neural audio fingerprinting system robust to extreme time stretching.
Details: professional.dolby.com/legal/barcel...
Soundsystem for Silence by Myubio (Ricky van Broekhoven, Nikolai Gillissen, Rutger Muller) #ImmersiveExperience
Video of exhibition at Can Framis Museum
Celebrating 20 years of Freesound.org
Support: Fundació Vila Casas, Phonos, @mtg-upf.bsky.social, Stimuleringsfonds
Video: BenGordon.net
Join us in the upcoming activities to celebrate the 20 years of Freesound: “Sounds to be Protected” at the CCCB in Barcelona (Oct 23-26) and Freesound Day at the @upf.edu (Oct 28). All the activities are free, but registration is required for the Freesound Day: www.upf.edu/web/mtg/home...
Benno Weck-Hufnagel defends his PhD thesis "Content-based Retrieval in Large-scale Audio Collections with Natural Language as the Interface". October 27th 2025 at 11:00h (CET)- at UPF @enginyeria-upf.bsky.social and online
www.upf.edu/web/mtg/home...
Two new PhD candidates join the MTG @enginyeria-upf.bsky.social: Simone Chieppa and Angelos-Nikolaos Kanatas. Welcome aboard! www.upf.edu/web/mtg/home...
Miguel Pérez defends his PhD thesis "Deep Learning approaches to singing voice transcription in pop music". October 22 at 11AM @enginyeria-upf.bsky.social www.upf.edu/web/mtg/home...
We are lauching a new platform: MTG-Toolbox. Free and Open-Source Audio & MIDI Applications for musicians, producers, hobbyists, and sound designers. It's designed to make the group's research outputs more accessible to a broad audience with minimal technical barriers: www.upf.edu/web/mtg/home...
Nineteen new theses, carried out and finished during the academic year 2024-2025 in the Master in Sound and Music Computing @enginyeria-upf.bsky.social , are now available: www.upf.edu/web/mtg/home...
🚨 Tomorrow, October 10th, is the final day to register for BioDCASE and DCASE workshop!
If you've not yet registered, secure your spot before the deadline!
🔗 Register here: dcase.community/workshop2025...
To celebrate de Freesound’s 20th anniversary, the Kosmopolis festival (CCCB) will host the sound installation "Sounds to be Protected" (Oct 23-26), and on October 28 we are organizing the Freesound Day, including talks and concerts. The activities are open to everyone: www.upf.edu/web/mtg/home...
24 new students are joining the Master in Sound and Music Computing @enginyeria-upf.bsky.social this academic year 2025-2026. Welcome!! www.upf.edu/web/mtg/home...
The MTG organizes the next Workshop on Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE2025) at @upf.edu (October 30-31) + satellite events: BioDCASE (Oct 29) and Freesound 20 anniversary celebration day (Oct 28). The full program will be available soon www.upf.edu/web/mtg/home...
@dazzidd.bsky.social joins the MTG from Sept 1st to lead the project ANIMA funded by the European Commission's MSCA postdoctoral fellowships program. Welcome David!! www.upf.edu/web/mtg/home...
On July 22nd @xavier-serra.bsky.social gives a plenary talk at the Jelinek Summer Workshop on Speech and Language Technology organized by @jhu.edu: "Methodologies for Music Understanding and Generation in the Context of Trustworthy AI”. The talk will be streamed online. www.upf.edu/web/mtg/home...
Huge thanks to my amazing co-authors: Laura Ibáñez-Martínez, @xavier-serra.bsky.social, Emilia Gómez and
@martinrocamora.bsky.social, and to our colleagues at the
@mtg-upf.bsky.social and the broader MIR community who helped shape this work 🤍
@roserbatlleroca.bsky.social participates in the panel "Blind algorithms and biased metadata: de-automating equality in the music industry" at @primavera-sound.bsky.social PRO, on June 6th at CCCB www.upf.edu/web/mtg/home...
📰 EnginyEria UPF conclou els cicles #DeepTechTalks debatent sobre el futur ètic i transparent de la #IA en la música
🗣️ "Com més gran és la revolució, més gran ha de ser la responsabilitat"
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@upf.edu @mtg-upf.bsky.social
Frederic Font participates in a round table on Technological innovation and social impact: www.linkedin.com/posts/graust...
