General information

• NEW !
  Faster, easier way to access audiovisual assets. Presentation of MEMORIES in ICT Results, an Information Service for the European Commission's Directorate-General Information Society and Media.  January 13th, 2010.

• MEMORIES : A New European Project for Audio Archives. In : IASA Information Bulletin, Nr 56, July 2006.

• MEMORIES : Short presentation. Presented at the kick off meeting, July 2006. Preparation : Guy Maréchal.

• Short presentation of MEMORIES. Preparation : Guy Maréchal (Project architect) and Eric Lesage (Technical manager)

• The European Project MEMORIES : goals and first results. Presented at the IASA Conference in Sydney, September 2008, by Jean-François Cosandier and Jacqueline von Arb

Publications in journals and conferences

• COSANDIER Jean-François, DAHL Per. The European Project MEMORIES : management, description, retrieval of audio archives. International Association of Music Libraries Conference (IAML). Amsterdam : 5th/10th of July 2009

• MARECHAL Guy. Methodology for constructing modular semantic models with focus on the music. International Association of Music Libraries Conference (IAML). Amsterdam : 5th/10th of July 2009

• MARECHAL Guy. Enriching your Audiovisual assets. Unlocking audio 2 conference : connecting with listeners. London : the British Library Conference Centre, 16/17 th of March 2009

• SCOHY Philippe. Acquiring, enriching, preserving and accessing audio visual assets. Unlocking audio 2 conference : connecting with listeners. London : the British Library Conference Centre, 16/17 th of March 2009

• SCOHY Philippe. Current and evolving tools to assist content editors and end users. Unlocking audio 2 conference : connecting with listeners. London : the British Library Conference Centre, 16/17 th of March 2009

• COSANDIER Jean-François, BUUNK Iris. The RSR case study. Unlocking audio 2 conference : connecting with listeners. London : the British Library Conference Centre, 16/17 th of March 2009

• BLOUET Raphaël, RAPAPORT, Guy, COHEN Israël, FEVOTTE Cédric. Evaluation of several strategies for single sensor speech/music separation. Proc. 33rd IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech Signal Process. ICASSP-2008 : Las Vegas, Nevada March 30 – April 4, 2008

• ABRAMSON Ari. Markov-switching GARCH models and applications to digital speech processing. Research thesis as partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy. [Haïfa] : Technion IIT, Dec. 2007 (Supervisor: Prof. Israel Cohen)

• ABRAMSON Ari, COHEN Israel. Simultaneous Detection and Estimation Approach for Speech Enhancement. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing : Vol. 15, No. 8, November 2007

Videos conferences

• Progressive enrichment of simple models of audiovisual assets (25' min.) followed by Questions and answers (2'min.) / Guy Maréchal. Unlocking audio 2 conference : connecting with listeners. London : the British Library Conference Centre, 17 th of March 2009

• Current and evolving tools to assist content editors and end users and application of the tools for the ‘Interviews’ in the MEMORIES project (29' min.) / Philippe Scohy, Stanley Peters. Unlocking audio 2 conference : connecting with listeners. London : the British Library Conference Centre, 17 th of March 2009

• Acquiring, enriching, preserving and accessing audio-visual assets (28' min.) / Philippe Scohy, Jean-François Cosandier, Iris Buunk. Unlocking audio 2 conference : connecting with listeners. London : the British Library Conference Centre, 17 th of March 2009

Reference documents

• Project MEMORIES : english poster

• Project MEMORIES : english leaflet

• Projet MEMORIES : dépliant français

• Project MEMORIES : Basic Glossary & Terminology
  (Appendix B to the Project Description of Work")
  

Selected students presentations

Selected students presentations given in relation with the graduate course by Prof. Israel Cohen "Digital Speech Processing in Noisy Environments" at Technion, the Israel Institute of Technology, Haïfa, 2007

• Monaural sound source separation by nonnegative matrix factorization with temporal continuity and sparseness criteria by Tuomas Virtanen / presented by Alexander Berkovich

• Single channel nonstationary stochastic signal separation using linear time-varying filters By James R. Hopgood and Peter J. W. Rayner / presented by Anastasia Dubrovina

• Markov-Switching GARCH Models and Applications to Digital Speech Processing : research thesis / Ari Abramson

• Separation of Singing Voice from Music Accompaniment for Monaural Recordings by Li and Wang / presented by Assaf Solomovitch

• Audio Source Separation With a Single Sensor by Laurent Benaroya, FrédéricBimbot, and RémiGribonval / presented by Itai Ram

• A bayesian approach for blind separation of sparse sources by Cédric Févotte and Simon J. Godsill / presented by Ofir Mebel