The Music Technology Group (MTG) is a research group of th
Department of Information and Communication Technologies
of the

Universitat Pompeu Fabra Pompeu Fabra University ( ca, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, UPF, ; es, link=no, Universidad Pompeu Fabra) is a public university located in the city of Barcelona, Catalonia in Spain. The university was created by the Autonomous Government of Catalo ...

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. It was founded in 1994 by its current director,

Xavier Serra Xavier Serra (born September 10, 1959) is a researcher in the field of Sound and Music Computing and professor at the Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) in Barcelona. He is the founder and director of the Music Technology Group at the UPF. Life and ...

, and it specializes in

sound and music computing Sound and music computing (SMC) is a research field that studies the whole sound and music communication chain from a multidisciplinary point of view. By combining scientific, technological and artistic methodologies it aims at understanding, model ...

research.

Ongoing research

The research of the MTG is quite close to the core of the Sound and Music Computing interdisciplinary; combining strengths in basic disciplines, such as

Signal Processing Signal processing is an electrical engineering subfield that focuses on analyzing, modifying and synthesizing ''signals'', such as audio signal processing, sound, image processing, images, and scientific measurements. Signal processing techniq ...

Machine Learning Machine learning (ML) is a field of inquiry devoted to understanding and building methods that 'learn', that is, methods that leverage data to improve performance on some set of tasks. It is seen as a part of artificial intelligence. Machine ...

and

Human Computer Interaction Humans (''Homo sapiens'') are the most abundant and widespread species of primate, characterized by bipedalism and exceptional cognitive skills due to a large and complex brain. This has enabled the development of advanced tools, culture, an ...

while being able to apply other disciplines/technologies in order to approach music related application-driven problems. Current active topics include: * ''Audio signal processing'': focusing on spectral modeling for sound synthesis and transformations. * ''Sound and Music description'': focusing on semantic analysis and classification of audio signals. * ''Musical and Advanced Interaction'': focusing on table-top interfaces for musical creation and exploration. * ''Sound and Music communities'': focusing on social networking technologies for sound and music applications.

Educational activities

The MTG is very active in educational activities within the UPF and in collaboration with the ESMUC. Here is a list of the main academic degrees in which the researchers of the MTG are involved with * PhD in Sound and Music Computing at the UPF * Master in Sound and Music Computing at the UPF * Master in Sonology, collaboration between UPF and ESMUC * Bachelor's degree in Audiovisual Systems Engineering at the UPF * Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering at the UPF * Bachelor's degree in Sonology at the ESMUC

References

{{Reflist, refs= * PhD of the DTIC-UPF
{{webarchive, url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101006054057/http://www.upf.edu/dtic/educacio/doctorat.html , date=2010-10-06 * Master in Sound and Music Computing
/ref> * Master in Sonology
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/ref> * Bachelor in Sonology
/ref> Pompeu Fabra University Music technology Organizations established in 1994 1994 establishments in Spain

Ongoing research

Educational activities

See also

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