Personal and Professional Honours
My Sentimental Favourites:
1974: First Prize, National Piano Competition, Federal State of Vorarlberg
1984-1986: Fulbright Grant for studying computer science and music at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, opens an external URL in a new window;
Member of NEA Jazz Master, opens an external URL in a new window Richard Davis, opens an external URL in a new window' Black Music Ensemble
The Big Ones:
1998: START Prize, opens an external URL in a new window (Austria's highest award for younger scientists); research grant of € 0.9 million.
First got me into the international media: WIRED Magazine, opens an external URL in a new window (Sept. 2001); Der Spiegel, opens an external URL in a new window (June 2002); New York Times, opens an external URL in a new window (June 2005); Süddeutsche Zeitung, opens an external URL in a new window (Oct. 2005)
2009: Wittgenstein Prize, opens an external URL in a new window (Austria's highest research award, opens an external URL in a new window); research grant of € 1.4 million
2015: ERC Advanced Grant, opens an external URL in a new window, European Research Council (ERC); research grant of € 2.3 million for the project Con Espressione, opens an external URL in a new window
2021: ERC Advanced Grant, opens an external URL in a new window, European Research Council (ERC); research grant of € 2.5 million for the project Whither Music?
Other National and International Scientific Honours:
2022: Fellow, opens an external URL in a new window of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA), opens an external URL in a new window
2021: Falling Walls 2021 Science Breakthrough of the Year, opens an external URL in a new window, Category Art & Science
- Here is our live presentation at the Falling Walls Summit 2021 (Berlin), opens an external URL in a new window, with a live demo of our ACCompanion ...
- ... and here is my Falling Walls Breakthrough Conversation, opens an external URL in a new window (live interview) from the Falling Walls Summit
2021: Elected into the Austrian Academy of Sciences, opens an external URL in a new window (Corresponding Member of the Division of Mathematics and the Natural Sciences)
2021: Fellow, opens an external URL in a new window of the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS), opens an external URL in a new window
2008-2013: Member of the "Junge Kurie" of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, opens an external URL in a new window
2006: Fellow, opens an external URL in a new window of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence (EurAI), opens an external URL in a new window
2002: Würdigungspreis des Landes Vorarlberg für Wissenschaft, opens an external URL in a new window
1997: Kardinal-Innitzer-Förderungspreis, opens an external URL in a new window, Austria
Best Paper & Demonstration Awards:
2022: DCASE 2022 Workshop, opens an external URL in a new window, Nancy, France: Judges' Award for this work/paper, opens an external URL in a new window (main author and awardee: Florian Schmid)
2020: DCASE 2020 Workshop, opens an external URL in a new window, Tokyo, Japan: Judges' Award for this work/paper, opens an external URL in a new window (main author and awardee: Khaled Koutini)
2019: DCASE 2019 Workshop, opens an external URL in a new window, New York, USA: Best Student Paper Award, opens an external URL in a new window for this paper, opens an external URL in a new window (main author and awardee: Paul Primus)
2018: 19th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2018), opens an external URL in a new window, Paris, France: Best Paper Award and Best Poster Presentation Award for this, opens an external URL in a new window (main author: Matthias Dorfer)
2015: 16th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2015), opens an external URL in a new window, Malaga, Spain: Best Paper Award for this, opens an external URL in a new window (main author: Andreas Arzt, opens an external URL in a new window)
2014: Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems / 21st European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PAIS/ECAI 2014) , opens an external URL in a new window, Prague, Czech Republic: Best System Demonstration Award for this, opens an external URL in a new window (main author: Andreas Arzt, opens an external URL in a new window)
2014: 53rd AES Conference on Semantic Audio (2014), opens an external URL in a new window, Audio Engineering Society, London, UK: Best Paper Award for this, opens an external URL in a new window (main author: Tom Collins, opens an external URL in a new window) and Best System Demonstration Award for this, opens an external URL in a new window (main author: Andreas Arzt, opens an external URL in a new window)
2014: 17th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx-2014), opens an external URL in a new window, Erlangen, Germany: Best Student Paper Award for this, opens an external URL in a new window (main author: Reinhard Sonnleitner, opens an external URL in a new window)
2007: 6th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM 2007), Oulu, Finland: Best Student Paper Award for this, opens an external URL in a new window (main author: Dominik Schnitzer, opens an external URL in a new window)
2005: 6th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR 2005), London, UK: Best Poster Award for this, opens an external URL in a new window (main author: Simon Dixon, opens an external URL in a new window)
2004: 15th European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML'2004), Pisa, Italy: Best Paper Award for this, opens an external URL in a new window (main author: Craig Saunders)
Scientific Competitions:
2023: CP wins two tasks in the DCASE 2023 Challenge, opens an external URL in a new window: Rank 1 in Low-Complexity Acoustic Scene Classification, opens an external URL in a new window (here is our technical report, opens an external URL in a new window); Rank 1 in Language-based Audio Retrieval, opens an external URL in a new window (tech report, opens an external URL in a new window)
2022: Our team, led by Florian Schmid and Khaled Koutini, takes rank 1 in the Low-Complexity Acoustic Scene Classification, opens an external URL in a new window: task at the DCASE 2022 Challenge, opens an external URL in a new window . Here is our technical report, opens an external URL in a new window
2020: Our team, led by Khaled Koutini, takes ranks 1 and 2 in the "Low Complexity Acoustic Scene Classification" task, opens an external URL in a new window at the DCASE 2020 Challenge, opens an external URL in a new window. Here is our technical report, opens an external URL in a new window.
2019: Our team, led by Khaled Koutini, wins the "Emotion and Themes Recognition in Music" task, opens an external URL in a new window in the MediaEval-2019 Challenge, opens an external URL in a new window. Here is our technical report, opens a file.
2016: Ranks 1 and 2 (among 49 competing entries) in the Audio Scene Classification Task, opens an external URL in a new window at the DCASE 2016 Acoustic Event Detection and Classification Challenge, opens an external URL in a new window.
Here is is a report on how we did it, opens an external URL in a new window.
2011: Rencon Award and the Rencon Technical Award won by our expressive music performance rendering system YQX 2.0 feat. the Basis Mixer, opens an external URL in a new window at the 10th Contest for Performance Rendering Systems (SMC-Rencon), opens an external URL in a new window, Padova, Italy, July 2011.
2008: Rencon Award, Rencon Technical Award, and Rencon Murao Award, opens an external URL in a new window won by our expressive music performance rendering system YQX, opens an external URL in a new window at the 7th Contest for Performance Rendering Systems (RENCON '08, opens an external URL in a new window), Sapporo, Japan, Aug. 2008. Listen to the results, opens an external URL in a new window.
The Arts:
2011: "Jury Recommended Work" selection for our multimedia arts project sound/tracks, opens an external URL in a new window at the 14th Japan Media Arts Festival, opens an external URL in a new window, The National Art Center, Tokyo, Feb. 2011.