2020
Bernardo, F., M. Zbyszynski, M. Grierson, and R. Fiebrink. 2020. “Designing and evaluating the usability of a machine learning API for prototyping music technology.” Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence 3(13): 1–18. (journal article)
web (with link to download open-access PDF for free)
Fiebrink, R. and L. Sonami. 2020. “Reflections on eight years of instrument creation with machine learning.” To appear in Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), 21–25 July 2020. (paper)
Vigliensoni, G., L. McCallum, and R. Fiebrink. 2020. “Creating latent spaces for modern music genre rhythms using minimal training data.” To appear in Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC), 7–11 September 2020. (short paper)
2019
Akten, M., R. Fiebrink, and M. Grierson. 2019. “Learning to see: You are what you see.” SIGGRAPH 2019 Art Papers. (art paper)
Fiebrink, R. 2019. “Machine Learning Education for Artists, Musicians, and Other Creative Practitioners.” ACM Transactions on Computing Education. Vol 19, No. 4, September 2019. (journal article)
pre-print pdf
Gonzalez Diaz, C., P. Perry, and R. Fiebrink. 2019. “Interactive Machine Learning for More Expressive Game Interactions.” Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Games (CoG). 20–23 August 2019. (poster)
Holland S. and R. Fiebrink. 2019. “Machine learning, music and creativity: An interview with Rebecca Fiebrink. In: Holland S, Mudd T, Wilkie-McKenna K, McPherson A, Wanderley MM (eds) New Directions in Music and Human-Computer Interaction. Springer, London. ISBN 978-3-319-92069-6. (book chapter)
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Jensenius, A. R., A. P. McPherson, A. Xambó, D. Overholt, G. Pellerin, I. Bukvic, R. Fiebrink, R. Schramm, and S. Serafin. 2019. “Workshop Proposal: Open Research Strategies and Tools in the NIME Community.” Proceedings of the International Conference on New Instruments for Musical Expression (NIME). 4–6 June 2019. (Workshop organised for NIME 2019).
Jeon, M., R. Fiebrink, E. Edmonds, and D. Herath. 2019. “From rituals to magic: Interactive art and HCI of the past, present and future.” International Journal of Human-Computer Studies Vol 131, Nov. 2019, 108–119. (journal article)
read/download from Elsevier (free)
Knees, P., M. Schedl, and R. Fiebrink. 2019. “Intelligent music interfaces for listening and creation.” Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI’19): Companion. (Workshop organised for IUI’19)
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McCallum, L. and R. Fiebrink. 2019. “Supporting Feature Engineering in End-User Machine Learning.” Emerging Perspectives in Human-Centered Machine Learning Workshop, held at CHI 2019, 4 May 2019. (workshop paper)
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Parke-Wolfe, S. T., H. Scurto, and R. Fiebrink. 2019. “Sound Control: Supporting Custom Musical Interface Design for Children with Disabilities.” Proceedings of the International Conference on New Instruments for Musical Expression (NIME). 4–6 June 2019. (paper with oral presentation)
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Ramos, G., J. Suh, G. Bansal, S. Ghorashi, A. M. Smith-Renner, R. Fiebrink, R. Banks, C. Meek, and S. Amershi. 2019. “Emerging Perspectives in Human-Centered Machine Learning.” CHI ’19 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (Workshop organised for CHI 2019)
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Sørig, E., N. Collignon, R. Fiebrink, and N. Kando. “Evaluation of Rich and Explicit Feedback for Exploratory Search.” Proceedings of the WEPIR ’19 workshop on Evaluation of Personalisation in Information Retrieval, held at CHIIR 2019, 14 March 2019. (workshop paper)
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Sørig, E., N. Collignon, R. Fiebrink, and N. Kando. “Towards Humane Feedback Mechanisms in Exploratory Search.” Emerging Perspectives in Human-Centered Machine Learning Workshop, held at CHI 2019, 4 May 2019. (workshop paper)
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Wolf, K. and R. Fiebrink. 2019. “Personalised Interactive Sonification of Musical Performance Data.” Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces 13: 245–265. (journal article)
read online / pdf (open access)
Wolf, K. and R. Fiebrink. 2019. “Toward Supporting End-User Design of Soundscape Sonifications.” Proceedings of the International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD), 23–27 June 2019. (paper with oral presentation)
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2018
Akten, M., R. Fiebrink, and M. Grierson. 2018. “Deep Meditations: Controlled navigation of latent space.” Proceedings of the NeurIPS 2018 workshop on Machine Learning for Creativity and Design. 8 December 2018.
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Bernardo, F., M. Grierson, and R. Fiebrink. 2018. “User-Centred Design Actions for Lightweight Evaluation of an Interactive Machine Learning Toolkit.” Journal Of Science And Technology Of The Arts, 10(2), 2-25-38. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.7559/citarj.v10i2.509 (article)
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Fiebrink, R., and B. Caramiaux. 2018. “The Machine Learning Algorithm As Creative Musical Tool.” In A. McLean and R. Dean, Editors, The Oxford Handbook of Algorithmic Music. Oxford University Press. (book chapter)
pre-print pdf, get the book
Fiebrink, R., and M. Gillies. 2018. “Introduction to the Special Issue on Human-Centered Machine Learning.” ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems, 8(2): 7:1–7:7. (Introduction to TiiS special issue co-edited by Fiebrink and Gillies.)
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Knees, P., M. Schedl, and R. Fiebrink. 2018. “IUI’18 Workshop on Intelligent Music Interfaces for Listening and Creation (MILC).” Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI’18). (Workshop organised for IUI’18)
Shapiro, R. B., R. Fiebrink, and P. Norvig. 2018. “How machine learning impacts the undergraduate computing curriculum.” Communications of the ACM, November 2018, 61 (11):27-29.
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2017
Bernardo, F., M. Zbyszyński, R. Fiebrink, and M. Grierson. 2017. “Interactive machine learning for end-user innovation.” Proceedings of the AAAI Symposium Series: Designing the User Experience of Machine Learning Systems, 27–29 March 2017. (paper)
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Birnbaum, D., R. Fiebrink, J. Malloch, and M. M. Wanderley. 2017. “Towards a Dimension Space for Musical Devices.” In A. R. Jensenius and M. Lyons, Editors, A NIME Reader: Fifteen Years of New Interfaces for Musical Expression. Springer International Publishing. ISBN 978-3-319-47213-3.
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This volume is a compilation of 30 historically significant papers from the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. The original conference paper was published at NIME 2005.
S. Deterding, J. Hook, R. Fiebrink, M. Gillies, J. Gow, M. Akten, G. Smith, A. Liapis, and K. Compton. 2017. “Mixed-initiative creative interfaces.” In CHI’17 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (Workshop at CHI 2017)
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Fiebrink, R. 2017. “Machine Learning as Meta-Instrument: Human-Machine Partnerships Shaping Expressive Instrumental Creation.” In T. Bovermann et al., Editors, Musical Instruments in the 21st Century. pp. 137–151. Springer. ISBN 978-981-10-2950-9. (book chapter)
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Fiebrink, R., G. Wang, and P. R. Cook. 2017. “Don’t forget the laptop: Using native input capabilities for expressive musical control.” In A. R. Jensenius and M. Lyons, Editors, A NIME Reader: Fifteen Years of New Interfaces for Musical Expression. Springer International Publishing. ISBN 978-3-319-47213-3.
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This volume is a compilation of 30 historically significant papers from the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. The original conference paper was published at NIME 2007.
Niehaus, K. H. and Fiebrink, R. 2017.“Creative Diversity: Expanding Software for 3D Human Avatar Design.” In Proceedings of the Digital Games Research Association Conference. Melbourne, Australia 3-6 July 2017. (extended abstract)
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Shapiro, R. B., A. Kelly, M. Ahrens, B. Johnson, H. Politi, and R. Fiebrink. 2017. “Tangible Distributed Computer Music for Youth.” Computer Music Journal, 41(2), Summer 2017, p. 52–68. ISSN 01489267. (paper)
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2016
Gillies, M., R. Fiebrink, A. Tanaka, J Garcia, S. Amershi, B. Lee, F. Bevilacqua, A. Heloir, F. Nunnari, W. Mackay, T. Kulesza, B. Caramiaux, N. d’Alessandro, and J. Tilmanne, 2016. “Human-Centered Machine Learning”. CHI’16 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 3558–3565. (Workshop held at CHI 2016)
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Oda, R., and R. Fiebrink. “The Global Metronome: Absolute tempo sync for networked musical performance.” Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), July 11-15 2016. (paper)
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Scurto, H., and R. Fiebrink. “Grab-and-play mapping: Creative machine learning approaches for musical inclusion and exploration.” Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), September 12-16 2016. (paper)
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Shapiro, B., A. Kelly, M. Ahrens, and R. Fiebrink. “BlockyTalky: A physical and distributed computer music toolkit for kids.” Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), July 11-15 2016. (paper)
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2015
Deitrick, E, R. B. Shapiro, M. P. Ahrens, R. Fiebrink, P. D. Lehrman, and S. Farooq. “Using distributed cognition theory to analyze collaborative computer science learning.” Proceedings of the International Conference on International Computing Education Research (ICER), August 9–13 2015, pp. 51–60. (paper)
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Jin, Z., R. Oda, A. Finkelstein, and R. Fiebrink. “MalLo: A distributed synchronized musical instrument designed for internet performance.” Proceedings of New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), May 31–June 1 2015, pp. 293–298. (paper with oral presentation and poster presentation)
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Katan, S., M. Grierson, and R. Fiebrink. “Using interactive machine learning to support interface development through workshops with disabled people.” Proceedings of ACM CHI, April 18–23 2015. (paper)
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Wolf, K. E., G. Gliner, and R. Fiebrink. “A model for data-driven sonification using soundscapes.” Proceedings of ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI), March 29–April 1, 2015. (poster)
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Wolf, K. E., G. Gliner, and R. Fiebrink. “End-user development of sonifications using soundscapes.” Proceedings of the International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD), July 6–10, 2015. (paper)
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Zayaruznaya, A., and R. Fiebrink. “The Roman de Fauvel as synthetic digital object.” The IAML/IMS (International Association of Music Libraries, Archives, and Documentation Centres / International Musicological Society) Congress, New York City, June 21–26, 2015. (oral presentation with published abstract)
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2014
Hipke, K., M. Toomim, R. Fiebrink, and J. Fogarty. “BeatBox: End-user interactive definition and training of recognizers for percussive vocalizations.” Proceedings of AVI 2014 International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI), Como, Italy, May 27–30. (paper)
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Laguna, C., and R. Fiebrink. 2014. “Improving data-driven design and exploration of digital musical instruments.” CHI’14 Extended Abstracts, 26 April–1 May. (Work-in-progress poster)
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Zayaruznaya, A., and R. Fiebrink. “Reimagining the facsimile: Project report on The Digital Fauvel” Early Music 42(4): 599-604. November 2014. (paper)
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2013
Fried, O., and R. Fiebrink. “Cross-modal sound mapping using deep learning.” Proceedings of New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), Daejeon, South Korea, May 27–30, 2013. (paper)
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Oda, R., A. Finkelstein, and R. Fiebrink. “Towards note-level prediction for networked music performance.” Proceedings of New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), Daejeon, South Korea, May 27–30, 2013. (poster with paper in proceedings)
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Sarwate, A., and R. Fiebrink. “Variator: A creativity support tool for music composition.” Proceedings of New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), Daejeon, South Korea, May 27–30, 2013. (poster with paper in proceedings)
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Sarwate, A., and R. Fiebrink. “Expansion on description-based design of melodies.” Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Musical Metacreation (MUME) / Ninth Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment Conference (AIIDE).
Wolf, K. E., and R. Fiebrink. “SonNet: A code interface for sonifying computer network data.” Proceedings of New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), Daejeon, South Korea, May 27–30, 2013. (paper)
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Zhang, E., and R. Fiebrink. “KIB: Simplifying gestural instrument creation using widgets.” Proceedings of New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), Daejeon, South Korea, May 27–30, 2013. (poster with paper in proceedings)
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2012
Xu, Z., R. Fiebrink, and Y. Matsuoka. “Virtual Therapist: A Phantom Robot-Based Haptic System for Personalized Post-Surgery Finger Rehabilitation.” Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biometrics (ROBIO 2012), Guangzhou, China, December 11–14, 2012. (paper)
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Fiebrink, R., and D. Trueman. “End-user machine learning in music composition and performance.” Presented at the CHI 2012 Workshop on End-User Interactions with Intelligent and Autonomous Systems. Austin, Texas, May 6, 2012. (workshop paper)
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Morris, D., and R. Fiebrink. “Using machine learning to support pedagogy in the arts.” Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, April 2012. (paper)
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2011
Fiebrink, R. “Real-time human interaction with supervised learning algorithms for music composition and performance.” PhD thesis, Princeton University, 2011.
see thesis website for pdf and abstract
Fiebrink, R., P. R. Cook, and D. Trueman. “Human model evaluation in interactive supervised learning.” Proceedings of ACM CHI, Vancouver, May 7–12, 2011. (paper)
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Morris, D., and R. Fiebrink. “Using machine learning to support pedagogy in the arts.” Presented at the CHI 2011 Child-Computer Interaction Workshop at CHI 2011, Vancouver, May 7, 2011. (workshop paper and presentation)
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Schedel, M., P. Perry, and R. Fiebrink. “Wekinating 000000Swan: Using machine learning to create and control complex artistic systems.” Proceedings of New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), Oslo, Norway, May 30–June 1, 2011. (poster)
Schedel, M., and R. Fiebrink. “A demonstration of bow articulation recognition with Wekinator and K-Bow.” Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), Huddersfield, UK, July 31–August 5, 2011. (demo)
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2010
Fiebrink, R. “Real-time interaction with supervised learning.” ACM CHI Extended Abstracts, Atlanta, April 10–15, 2010. (CHI doctoral consortium participant with published abstract)
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Fiebrink, R., M. Schedel, and B. Threw. “Constructing a personalizable gesture-recognizer infrastructure for the K-Bow.” 3rd International Conference on Music and Gesture (MG3), Montreal, March 5–6, 2010. (oral presentation with published abstract)
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Fiebrink, R., D. Trueman, C. Britt, M. Nagai, K. Kaczmarek, M. Early, M.R. Daniel, A. Hege, and P. R. Cook. “Toward understanding human-computer interactions in composing the instrument.” Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), New York City, June 1–5, 2010. (paper)
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2009
Fiebrink, R., P. R. Cook, and D. Trueman. “Play-along mapping of musical controllers.” Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), Montreal, August 4–9, 2009. (demo with paper in proceedings)
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Wang, G., G. Essl, J. Smith, S. Salazar, P. Cook, R. Hamilton, R. Fiebrink, J. Berger, D. Zhu, M. Ljungstrom, A. Berry, J. Wu, T. Kirk, E. Berger, and J. Segal. “Smule = Sonic Media: An intersection of the mobile, musical, and social”. Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), Montreal, August 4–9, 2009. (paper)
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Fiebrink, R., D. Trueman, and P. R. Cook. “A meta-instrument for interactive, on-the-fly machine learning.” Proceedings of New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), Pittsburgh, June 4–6, 2009. (paper)
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Fiebrink, R., D. Morris, and M. R. Morris. “Dynamic mapping of physical controls for tabletop groupware.” Proceedings of ACM CHI, Boston, April 4–9, 2009. (paper)
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2008
Fiebrink, R., G. Wang, and P. R. Cook. “Foundations for on-the-fly learning in the ChucK programming language.” Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), Belfast, August 16–21, 2008. (paper)
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Winner of ICMC 2008 “Best Presentation” award, shared with Rob Hamilton.
Fiebrink, R., G. Wang, and P. R. Cook. “Support for MIR prototyping and real-time applications in the ChucK programming language.” Proceedings of the International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), Philadelphia, September 14–18, 2008. (paper)
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2007
Fiebrink, R., G. Wang, and P. R. Cook. “Don’t forget the laptop: Using native input capabilities for expressive musical control.” Proceedings of New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), New York City, USA, June 6–10, 2007. (paper)
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Wang, G., R. Fiebrink, and P. R. Cook. “Combining Analysis and Synthesis in the ChucK Programming Language.” Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), Copenhagen, Denmark, August 27–31, 2007. (paper)
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DeCoro, C., Z. Barutcuoglu, and R. Fiebrink. “Bayesian aggregation for hierarchical genre classification.” Proceedings of the International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), Vienna, Austria, September 23–27, 2007. (paper)
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2006
Fiebrink, R., and I. Fujinaga. “Feature selection pitfalls and music classification.” Proceedings of the International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), Victoria, Canada, October 8–12, 2006. (poster with paper in proceedings)
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2005
Birnbaum, D., R. Fiebrink, J. Malloch, and M. M. Wanderley. “Towards a dimension space for musical devices.” Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), Vancouver, Canada, May 26–28, 2005. (poster with paper in proceedings)
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McKay, C., D. McEnnis, R. Fiebrink, and I. Fujinaga. “ACE: A general-purpose classification ensemble optimization framework.” Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), Barcelona, Spain, September 5–9, 2005. (poster with paper in proceedings)
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Fiebrink, R., C. McKay, and I. Fujinaga. “Combining D2K and JGAP for efficient feature weighting for classification tasks in music information retrieval.” Proceedings of the International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), London, September 11–15, 2005. (poster with paper in proceedings)
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McKay, C., R. Fiebrink, D. McEnnis, B. Li, and I. Fujinaga. “ACE: A framework for optimizing music classification.” Proceedings of the International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), London, September 11–15, 2005. (paper)
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Sinyor, E., C. McKay, R. Fiebrink, D. McEnnis, and I. Fujinaga. “Beatbox classification using ACE.” Proceedings of the International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), London, September 11–15, 2005. (poster with paper in proceedings)
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