Biography
Prof. Shyamala Doraisamy
Prof. Shyamala Doraisamy
University Putra Malaysia (UPM), Malaysia
Title: Machine Listening and its Applications
Abstract: 
Research on machine listening is on the rise with the advancements of artificial intelligence and sound processing technologies, alongside the easier accessibility to digital sound recordings and sound sensor data. Machine listening is a field that encompasses research on a wide range of tasks and methods such as speech recognition, audio content recognition, audio-based search, content-based music analysis, signal processing and auditory modelling. This talk will present an overview of machine listening followed by discussions of several past projects on music and health informatics. An ongoing machine listening project on tyre-road sound interactions towards improving vehicle safety systems will also be discussed.
Biography: 
Shyamala Doraisamy is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, University Putra Malaysia (UPM). She received her PhD from Imperial College London in 2004, specializing in the field of Music Information Retrieval and is a member of the Digital Information Computation and Retrieval research group at UPM. She won an award for a music and computing innovation 'Content-Based Music Retrieval with N-Grams and a Music-friendly Interface' at the Invention and New Product Exposition (INPEX), Pittsburgh, USA in 2007. Her current research interests include Multimedia Information Processing, Multimodal Machine Learning and Sound Analysis, and has completed several projects on music and health applications. She is a committee member of the Malaysian Society of Information Retrieval and Knowledge Management (PECAMP) and was the General Chair of the IEEE 2018 Fourth International Conference on Information Retrieval and Knowledge Management (CAMP’18). She is currently a Visiting Scholar at the School of Computer Science, University of Lincoln (UoL), United Kingdom as UPM’s partner lead for two large-scale research collaborations under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) -RISE (Research and Innovation Staff Exchange) programme with UoL as the consortium coordinator.