Philippe Hamel, Pooled features classifier MIREX 2011 contest entry.
Best performance in audio
tagging task.
Philippe Hamel and Douglas Eck, Learning
features from music audio with deep belief networks, In
Proceedings of the 11th International Society for Music Information
Retrieval Conference (ISMIR), Utrecht, The Netherlands, pages
339--344, 2010
P. Hamel, "La nouvelle physique dans le système des mésons B",
Master’s thesis, Université de Montréal, 2006.
S. Baek, A. Datta, P. Hamel, O. Hernández, and D. London,
"Polarization states in B→ρK* and new physics", Physical Review D,
vol. 72, 2005, p. 20.
S. Baek, P. Hamel, D. London, A. Datta, and D. Suprun, "B→πK puzzle
and new physics", Physical Review D, vol. 71, 2005, p. 4.
Research
Interests
I am studying machine learning, a sub-field of artificial
intelligence
applied to music. 'What is machine
learning ?' you may ask. Well,in short, machine learning is the art of developping
algorithms
that can learn by examples. It is trying to recognize patterns and
pull
out the important information from a large quantity of data, and
then
be able to make good predictions over new examples. That is callled
generalization and it is
the key to
good machine learning. Click
here
for a better description of machine learning.
Machine learning can be applied to many fields such as computer
vision,
hand-written character recognition or speech recognition. I am
studying
the application of machine learning to the domain of music. Because
music is abstract and complex, it is really hard for machines to
understand music. Machine learning can help to solve tasks such as
genre recognition, source separation, beat tracking, optical music
recognition, instrument recognition and many more tasks. I am
particulary interested in finding ways to represent music in ways
that
are useful and meaningful for algorithms and humans.
Musical Interests
I am an amateur musician. I love to jam with friends, and am pretty
open about musical styles. My main influences would be artists such
as
Pink Floyd, Radiohead, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Jean Leloup,
Karkwa,
Patrick Watson, The Doors and many more...
My main instrument is the guitar(s), but I like to make music (or
noise) with all the instruments I can try. I can also play piano,
drums, bass, harmonica, etc.
General interests I
am
interested in sciences in general, but have a particular interest
for
physics. I am curious about about how nature works, and how much we
can
know about the universe.
Education
Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science (Begun May 2008)
Université de Montréal (FQRNT research scolarship )
M. Sc. Physics (April 2006) Theoretical particle physics
Université de Montréal (FQRNT research scolarship)
B.Sc in Physics and Mathematics (April 2004)
Université de Montréal Last updated October 31 2011