Connectionists: Music & Machine Learning: Sarntal Course Sept 17-29

[Juergen Schmidhuber]

Music, Interactive Conducting, and Machine Learning

A two-week course in the beautiful Sarntal, Sept 17-29, 2006

Overview. In exciting theoretical and practical sessions
we will apply machine learning techniques to problems
related to music, and use augmented reality techniques to
construct a virtual orchestra.

Gifted students of TU Muenchen, Univ. Erlangen-Nuernberg,
Univ. Stuttgart are encouraged to apply.

Possible group projects include:
1. Automatic music classification through the universal distance measure
2. Learning musical taste through boosting methods
3. Learning to compose music through recurrent neural nets
4. Gesture recognition for conductor patterns
5. Sibelius Interface: simultaneous musical score and video/audio of 
orchestra
6. Low Latency Home Conductor: thin client (notebook with camera)
operates via WWW on a network of music processors
7. Tracking the conductor's eye - only the viewed instrument reacts to 
gestures

Lecturers:
Prof. Bernd Brügge, TUM, Germany
Prof. Jürgen Schmidhuber, TUM
Prof.  Asim Smailagic, CMU, USA
Guest: Key-Thomas Märkl,
Bavarian Symphonic Orchestra

Instructions and more:
http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/sarntal.html