Publications

2012

Casey, M., Thompson, J., Kang, O., Raizada, R., and Wheatley, T.,"Population codes representing musical timbre for high-level fMRI categorization of music genres", Machine Learning and Interpretation of Neuroimaging, Springer Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) - Survey of the State of The Art Series, 2012.

2011

Kong, Q., Sarroff, A., Topel, S., and Casey, M., "Getting Into the Groove with Hierarchical Independent Component Analysis", Neural Information Processing Systems, Workshop on Music Processing, December, 2011.

Casey, M., Thompson, J., Kang, O., and Wheatley, T., "Distributed Timbre Codes in STS", Neural Information Processing Systems, Workshop on Computational Decoding of Neuroimaging Data, December, 2011.

Mattek, M., and Casey, M. "Cross Modal Aesthetics: A Feature-Based Investigation", International Conference on Music Information Retrieval, Miami, October 2011

Topel, S., and Casey, M. "Elementary Sources: Compositional Applications of Probabilsitic Latent Component Analysis", International Conference on Music Information Retrieval, Miami, October 2011

Ben Fields, Kurt Jacobson, Christophe Rhodes, Mark d'Inverno, Mark Sandler, Michael Casey, "Analysis and Exploitation of Musician Social Networks for Recommendation and Discovery", IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 13(4), pp.675-686. February 2011.

2010

Crawford, T., Rhodes, C., Casey, M, and d’Inverno, M., “Investigating Music Collections at Different Scales using AudioDB”, Journal of New Music Research, Vol. 39(4), pp. 337-348, 2010

Casey, M. and Topel, S. “Timbre-Based Percussive Rhythm Classification and Retrieval”, late breaking demo session, International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, Utrecht, NL, 2010.

Fields, B., Jacobson, K., Rhodes, C., Sandler, M., and Casey, M., “Analysis and Exploitation of Musician Social-Networks for Recommendation and Retrieval”, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Thematic Meetings on Signal Processing: Internet-based social communities, Dallas, TX, March 2010

2009

Slaney, M. and Casey, M. “Music Retrieval at the Scale of the Web”, tutorial given at International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, Kobe, 2009.

Casey, M., “Soundspotting: A New Kind of Process?” in R. Dean (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Computer Music and Digital Sound Culture, Oxford University Press, 2009.

Casey, M., “Audio Tools for Music Discovery”, in T. Crawford (Ed.), Information and Computing Technology in the Humanities, Ashgate, 2009.

2008

Casey, M., Rhodes, C. and Slaney, M., “Analysis of Minimum Distances in High Dimensional Musical Spaces”, IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 16(5), pp. 1015-1028, 2008

Casey, M., Veltkamp, R., Goto, M., Leman, M., Rhodes, C. and Slaney, M., “Content-Based Music Information Retrieval: Current Directions and Future Challenges”, Proceedings of the IEEE, April 2008.

Slaney, M. and Casey, M., “Locality Sensitive Hashing for Finding Nearest Neighbours”, IEEE Signal Processing, March 2008.

Casey, M., “AudioDB: Scalable approximate nearest-neighbor search with automatic radius-bounded indexing.”, (invited paper) 156th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Miami, 2008.

Fields, B., Casey, M., Jacobson, K. and Rhodes, C. “Social Playlists and Bottleneck Measurements : Exploiting Musician Social Graphs Using Content-Based Dissimilarity and Pairwise Maximum Flow Values”, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Music Information Retrieval, Philadelphia, USA, 2008.

Fields, B., Jacobson, K., Casey, M., Sandler, M. , “Do you sound like your friends? Exploring artist similarity via artist social network relationships and audio signal processing”, Proc. of ICMC, Belfast, Aug. 2008.

Magas, M., Casey, M. and Rhodes, C., “mHashup: fast visual music discovery via locality sensitive hashing”, ACM SIGGRAPH, LA, USA, Aug. 2008.

Jacobson, K., Fields, B., Sandler, M., Casey, M. , “The Effects of Lossy Audio Encoding on Genre Classification Tasks”, 124th AES Convention, Amsterdam, Netherlands, May, 2008.

2007

Rhodes, C. and Casey, M., “Algorithms for Determining and Labelling Approximate Hierarchical Self-Similarity”, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Music Information Retrieval, Vienna, Austria, 2007.

Mauch, M., Dixon, S., Harte, C., Casey, M. and Fields, B. “Discovering Chord Idioms Through Beatles and Real Book Songs”, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Music Information Retrieval, Vienna, Austria, 2007.

Casey, M. and Grierson, M. “Soundspotter and Remix-TV: Fast Approxmate Matching for Audio-Visual Performance”, in Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2007.

Casey, M. and Slaney, M. “Fast Recognition of Remixed Music Audio”, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), HI, USA, May 2007

2006

Abdallah, S., Sandler, M., Rhodes, C. and Casey, M., “Using Duration Models To Reduce Fragmentation in Audio Segmentation”, Machine Learning, special issue on Machine Learning for Music, November 2006

Casey, M. and Slaney, M. “Song Intersection by Approximate Nearest Neighbour Retrieval”, Proc. International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), Victoria, BC, Oct. 2006

Levy, M., Sandler, M., Casey, M. , “Extraction of High-Level Musical Structure From Audio Data and Its Application to Thumbnail Generation”, ICASSP 2006 Proceedings. 2006 IEEE International Conference on, vol. 5, pp. V-V, 2006

Casey, M. and Slaney, M. “The Importance of Sequences in Music Similarity”, Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Toulouse, France, May 2006

Rhodes, C., Casey, M., Abdallah, S. and Sandler, M. A “Markov-Chain Monte-Carlo Approach to Musical Audio Segmentation”, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Toulouse, 2006

Levy, M., Sandler, M. and Casey, M. “Extraction of High Level Musical Structure from Audio Data”, Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Toulouse, France, May 2006

2005

Casey, M. “Acoustic Lexemes for Organizing Internet Audio”, Contemporary Music Review special issue on Internet Music, A. Marsden and A. Hugil (Eds.), October 2005

Abdallah, S., Noland, K., Sandler, M., Casey, M. and Rhodes, C. “Theory and Evaluation of a Baysian Music Structure Extractor”, Proc. International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), London, UK, Sept. 2005

2004

Casey, M., “General Audio Information Retrieval”, in MMIR MultiMedia Information Retrieval:, Roberto Raieli and Perla Innocenti (Eds.), AIDA, Rome 2004 ISBN 88-901144-9-5

Casey, M. and Crawford, T., “Automatic Location and Measurement of Ornaments in Audio Recordings”, Proc. International Conference on Music Information Retrieval, Barcelona, October 2004.

Casey, M., “Integrating Low Level Metadata in Multimedia Database Mangement Systems”, Presented at Audio Engeneering Society 25th International Conference, London, 2004.

2003

Divakaran, A., Regunathan, R., Xiong, Z., and Casey, M., “Procedure for audio-assisted browsing of news video using generalized sound recognition”, Proc. SPIE Vol. 5021, p. 160-166, Storage and Retrieval for Media Databases 2003; Minerva M. Yeung, Rainer W. Lienhart, Chung-Sheng Li; Eds. Jan 2003

Casey, M. “Computational Creativity with Acoustic Bayesian Models”, Proceedings of AISB ‘03 Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Creativity in Arts and Science, Aberystwyth, April, 2003.

Casey, M. “Musical Structure and Content Repurposing with Bayesian Models”, Proceedings of the Cambridge Music Processing Colloquium, University of Cambridge, April, 2003.

2002

Smaragdis, P. and Casey, M. “Audiovisual Independent Component Analysis”, Proceedings of ICA03 International Conference on Independent Component Analysis, Tokyo, March 2003.

Casey, M., “Musical Applications of MPEG-7 Audio”, Organised Sound, 6:2, Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Hershey, J. and Casey, M. “Audiovisual Source Separation Using Hidden Markov Models.”, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 14, MIT Press, 2002.

Casey, M., “Sound Classification and Similarity Tools”, in B.S. Manjunath, P. Salembier and T. Sikora, (Eds), Introduction to MPEG-7: Multimedia Content Description Language, J. Wiley, 2002

2001

Casey, M., “Reduced-Rank Spectra and Minimum Entropy Priors for Generalized Sound Recognition”,
Proceedings of the Workshop on Consistent and Reliable Cues for Sound Analysis, EUROSPEECH 2001, Aalborg, Denmark, September 2001.

Casey, M. “MPEG-7 Sound Recognition”, in IEEE Transaction on Circuits and Systems Video Technology, special issue on MPEG-7, IEEE, May/June 2001.

2000

Casey, M. and Westner, A., “Separation of Mixed Audio Sources by Independent Subspace Analysis”, in Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, ICMA, Berlin, August, 2000.

Casey, M. “NetSound”, chapter in R. Boulanger and B. Vercoe, (Eds.), The Csound Book. MIT Press, Cambridge, 2000.

1993-2000

Casey, M. “Representation of Musical Signals by Independent Component Cross Entropies”, presented at Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, workshop on Neural Models of Music Processing. Denver, CO 1999.

Casey, M., “Understanding Musical Sound with Forward Models and Physical Models”, in Musical Networks: Parallel Distributed Perception and Performance, Niall Griffith and Peter M. Todd(eds.), Cambridge, MIT Press, 1998.

Waters, R.C, Anderson, D.B., Barrus, J.W., Brogan, D.C., Casey, M.A., McKeown, S.G., Nitta, T., Sterns, I.B. and Yerazunis, W.S., “Diamond Park and Spline: Social Virtual Reality with 3D Animation, Spoken Interaction, and Runtime Extendability”, Presence, MIT Press, August 1997.

Anderson, D.B. and Casey, M., “The Sound Dimension: Audio for Distributed Virtual Environments”, IEEE Spectrum special issue on Distributed Virtual Environments, April 1997.

Casey, M., “Independent Component Analysis and Sound Synthesis”, presented at the International Conference on Auditory Display, Palo Alto, CA, November 1997.

Casey, M., Gardner, W. and Basu, S., “Vision-Steered Beam Forming and Transaural Rendering for the Artificial Life Interactive Video Environment (ALIVE)”, Proceedings of the Audio Engineering Society 99th Conference, New York, November 1996.

Casey, M. and Wachman, J., “Unsupervised Cross-Modal Analysis of Discourse”, Proceedings of the Workshop on the Integration of Gesture and Language in Speech, Delaware, October 1996.

Casey, M. and Smaragdis, P., “Netsound: Structured Audio Encoding and Rendering”, Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, ICMA, Hong Kong, September, 1996

Casey, M., “Multi-Model Classification as Basis for Computational Timbre Understanding”, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Montreal, August 1996.

Casey, M. “Understanding Musical Sound with Forward Models and Physical Models”, Connection Science 6:2, 1995.

Casey, M., “Practice Makes Perfect: Distal Learning of Musical Instrument Control Parameters”, International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Philadelphia, July 1993.

Previous Projects

MPEG-7 International Standard for Multimedia Content Description (MERL)

MediaFinder: MPEG-7 Music Player (MERL)

Sound Spotter: Recognition and Extraction from Mixed Audio (MERL)

MPEG-7 Generalized Sound Recognition (GSR) (MERL)

GSR for Audio-Based Sports Highlights for DVR(MERL)

NetSound: MPEG-4 Structured Audio (MIT Media Lab)

Patents

Casey, M. (2001) United States Patent 6,321,200 Method for extracting features from a mixture of signals(Granted 2003)
Smaragdis, P. and Casey, M. (2003) United States Patent 7,218,755 Detecting temporally related components of multi-modal signals (Granted 2007)

Casey, M. (2001) United States Patent Application 20010044719 Method and system for recognizing, indexing, and searching acoustic signals

Wolf, P. and Casey, M., (2002) United States Patent Application 20040064306 Voice activated music playback system

Divakaran, A., Radhakrishnan, R. and Casey, M. (2002) United States Patent Application 20040008789 Audio-assisted video segmentation and summarization