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Jean-Julien (J-J) Aucouturier is an expert on audio technologies and artificial intelligence, with a background in the music industry. He spent 6 years in Sony research labs building a Google for music – in a team which work is now integrated in Sony-Ericsson mobile phones. Recently, he worked with Japanese robot manufacturer ZMP to design dancing ipod-robot Miuro. He's currently leading the Computer Science guerilla in Temple University, Japan Campus.
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2010

Journal articles

  • Aucouturier, J.-J. and Nonaka, Yulri and Okanoya, Kazuo Automatic identification of expiratory and inspiratory sounds in baby cry audio recordings . Journal of Voice (submitted, 2010)

    • Popular Press
  • Aucouturier, J.-J. Assignments that Matter. Chronicles of Higher Education (submitted).

    • Peer-reviewed Conferences
  • Becker, Amanda and Aucouturier, JJ and Mougenot, Celine and Yamanaka, Toshimasa A situated experimental protocol to study emotional responses to an interactive object. Kansei 2010 (submitted).
  • Mougenot, Celine and Aucouturier, JJ and Yamanaka, Toshimasa and Watanabe, Katsumi Comparing the effects of visual and auditory stimuli in design creativity. Kansei 2010 (submitted).

    • While you're at it, please have also a look at some of my co-authors' work: Melanie Aurnhammer (Sony CSL Paris, France); Anthony Beurivé (Sony CSL Paris, France); Laurent Daudet (Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6, France); Boris Defreville (Orelia, France); Peter Hanappe (Sony CSL Paris, France); Takashi Ikegami (University of Tokyo, Japan);  Petter Johansson (University of Tokyo, Japan); Amaury La Burthe (Sony CSL Paris, France); Marco Luthy (Temple University, Japan Campus); Yuta Ogai (University of Tokyo, Japan); François Pachet (Sony CSL Paris, France); Elias Pampalk (Last.fm, London, UK);  Josh Reiss (Queen Mary University of London, UK); Pierre Roy (Sony CSL Paris, France); Mark Sandler (Queen Mary University of London, UK); Rodrigo Segnini (NTT, Japan); Aymeric Zils (Voxler, France)
    2009

    Journal articles

  • Aucouturier, J.-J. and Ikegami, T. The Illusion of Agency: Two Engineering Approaches to Compromise Reactivity and Autonomy in an Artificial System. AdaptiveBehavior (in press, 2009).
  • Aucouturier, J.-J. Re-inventing Fourier. Leonardo Transactions (in press, 2009).
  • Aucouturier, J.-J. and Defreville, B. Judging the similarity of soundscapes does not require categorization: Evidence from spliced stimuli. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2009 (in press)

    • Edited special issues
  • Aucouturier, J.-J. and Daudet, L. (eds.) Future Trends in the Pattern Recognition of Non-Speech Audio. Special Issue Pattern Recognition Letters, 2009 (in preparation).

    • Popular Press
  • Aucouturier, J.-J. Real music for a virtual world. Japan Inc, n.86, June 2009.

    • Book chapters
  • Aucouturier, J.-J. Sounds like Teen Spirit: Computational Insights into the Grounding of Everyday Musical Terms. In (Minett, J. and Wang, W. eds.) Language, Evolution and the Brain, Frontiers in Linguistics Series, Taipei: Academia Sinica Press, 2009 (in press).
  • Aucouturier, J.-J. The hypothesis of self-organization for musical tuning systems. In (E. Miranda, ed.) Music as It Could Be: New Musical Worlds from Artificial Life (Middleton: A-R Editions), 2009 (in press).

    • Peer-reviewed Conferences
  • Luthy, M. and Aucouturier, J.-J. MIR when all recordings are gone: Recommending live music in real-time. Workshop on the Future of MIR, International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), Kobe, Japan, Oct. 2009.
  • Aucouturier, J.-J. What is it like to be a byte? Analysis of student self-reports after a role-playing learning activity . Temple University Japan Linguistics Symposium, Feb. 2009.
    • 2008

    Journal articles

  • Aucouturier, J.-J and Pampalk, E. From Genres to Tags: A little epistemology of Music Information Retrieval research . Journal of New Music Research, vol. 32(7), 2008.
  • Jean-Julien Aucouturier Aucouturier, J.-J. The hypothesis of self-organization for musical tuning systems. Leonardo Music Journal (MIT Press), vol. 18, pp. 63-69, 2008.
  • Aucouturier, J.-J., Ogai, Y. and Ikegami, T. Using Chaos to Trade Synchronization and Autonomy in a Dancing Robot. IEEE Intelligent Systems, vol. 23, No. 2, 2008.

    • Edited special issues
  • Aucouturier, J.-J and Pampalk, E. (eds.) From genres to tags: Music Information Retrieval in the era of folksonomies. Special Issue Journal of New Music Research, 2008.
  • Aucouturier, J.-J. (ed.) Cheek to Chip: Dancing robots and the future of AI , IEEE Intelligent Systems, Trends and Controversies, vol. 23, No. 2, March/April 2008.

    • Peer-reviewed Conferences
  • Aucouturier, J.-J. and Defreville, B. Differences in the cognitive processing of music and soundscapes revealed by performance on spliced stimuli, Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC), Sapporo, Japan, August 2008.
  • Segnini, R., Aucouturier, J.J, Johansson, P., Hall, L. and Watanabe, K., Feedback Effects of Emotional Voice Transformation on Self-Rated Emotion Experience , International Conference of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASCC), Taipei, Taiwan, June 2008.

    • Patents
  • US2008040362: Hybrid Audio-visual Categorization System and Method (2008-04), with F. Pachet, P. Roy
    • 2007

    Journal articles

  • Aucouturier, J.-J., Defreville, B. and Pachet, F. The bag-of-frame approach to audio pattern recognition: A sufficient model for urban soundscapes but not for polyphonic music. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 122(2):881-91, 2007.
  • Aucouturier, J.-J. and Pachet, F. A scale-free distribution of false positives for a large class of audio similarity measures. Pattern Recognition, vol. 41(1), pp. 272-284, 2007.
  • Aucouturier, J.-J. and Pachet, F. The influence of polyphony on the dynamical modelling of musical timbre . Pattern Recognition Letters, vol. 28 (5), pp.654-661, 2007.

    • Peer-reviewed Conferences
  • Aucouturier, J.-J., Ogai, Y. and Ikegami, T. Making a robot dance to music using chaotic itinerancy in a network of FitzHugh-Nagumo neuronsoceedings of the 14th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP), Kitakyushu, Japan, Nov. 2007
  • Aucouturier, J.-J. The hypothesis of self-organization for musical tuning systems. Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL), Workshop on Music and Artificial Life, Lisbon, Portugal, Sept. 2007.
  • Aucouturier, J.-J., Pachet, F., Roy, P. and Beuriv, A. Signal + context = Better classification. Proceedings of the International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), Vienna, Austria, Sept. 2007.
  • Aucouturier, J.-J. and Defreville, B. Differences in the cognition of urban soundscapes and polyphonic music: a pattern-recognition point of view. Proceedings of the 36th International Congress on Noise Control Engineering (INTER-NOISE), Istanbul, Turkey, 2007.
  • Aucouturier, J.-J. and Defreville, B. Sounds like a park: A computational technique to recognize soundscapes holistically, without source identification. Proceedings of the 19th International Congress on Acoustics (ICA), Madrid, Spain, Sept. 2007.
    • 2006

    Journal articles

  • Aucouturier, J.-J. and Pachet, F. Jamming with plunderphonics: Interactive contatenative synthesis of music. Journal of New Music Research, vol. 35(1), pp. 35-50, 2006.

    • Peer-reviewed Conferences
  • Aucouturier, J.-J. Investigating embodiment mechanisms in music perception: The case of traditional dance music . Proceedings of the 11th Japanese Auditory Research Forum, Shiga, Japan, Dec. 2006.
  • Aucouturier, J.-J. The cognitive implausibility of statistical pattern recognition algorithms for music. Proceedings of the 11th Japanese Auditory Research Forum, Shiga, Japan, Dec. 2006.

    • Patents
  • JP2006106754: Mapped Meta-data Sound-Reproduction Device and Audio Sample Processing System Usable Therewith (2006-10), with F. Pachet
  • WO2006037786: A Content Management Interface (2006-03) with F. Pachet, P. Roy.
    • 2005

    Journal articles

  • Aucouturier, J.-J., Pachet, F. and Sandler, M. The Way It Sounds: Timbre Models For Analysis and Retrieval of Polyphonic Music Signals. IEEE Transactions of Multimedia, 7(6):1028-1035, 2005.
  • Pachet, F., La Burthe, A. and Aucouturier, J.-J. Editorial Metadata in the Sony Music Browser: Between Universalism and Autism. Journal of New Music Research, 34(2):173-184, 2005

    • Peer-reviewed Conferences
  • Aucouturier, J.-J. and Pachet, F. Ringomatic: A Real-Time Interactive Drummer Using Constraint-Satisfaction and Drum Sound Descriptors. Proceedings of the International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), September 2005, London, UK.
  • Roy, P., Aucouturier, J.-J., Pachet, F. and Beuriv´e, A. Exploiting the Tradeoff Between Precision and Cpu-time to Speed Up Nearest Neighbor Search. Proceedings of the International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), September 2005, London, UK.
    • 2004

    Journal articles

  • Pachet, F., La Burthe, A., Zils, A. and Aucouturier, J.-J. Popular Music Access: The Sony Music Browser. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 55(12):1037 -1044, 2004.
  • Aucouturier, J.-J. and Pachet F. Improving Timbre Similarity: How high is the sky?. Journal of Negative Results in Speech and Audio Sciences, 1(1), 2004.
  • Pachet, F., Aucouturier, J.-J., La Burthe, A., Zils, A. and Beuriv´e, A. The Cuidado Music Browser: an end-to-end Electronic Music Distribution System. Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2004.

    • Peer-reviewed Conferences
  • Aucouturier, J.-J. and Pachet, F. Tools and Architecture for the Evaluation of Similarity Measures: Case Study of Timbre Similarity. Proceedings of the International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), October 2004, Barcelona, Spain.
  • Aucouturier, J.-J., Pachet, F. and Hanappe, P. From Sound Sampling To Song Sampling. Proceedings of the International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), October 2004, Barcelona, Spain.
    • 2003

    Journal articles

  • Aucouturier, J.-J. and Pachet, F. Representing Musical Genre: A State of the Art. Journal of New Music Research, 32(1), 2003.

    • Peer-reviewed Conferences
  • Laburthe, A., Pachet, F. and Aucouturier, J.-J. Editorial Metadata in the Cuidado Music Browser: Between Universalism and Autism. Proceedings of the WedelMusic Conference, 2003, Liverpool, UK.
    • 2002

    Peer-reviewed Conferences
  • Aucouturier, J.-J. and Pachet, F., Finding Songs that Sound the Same. Proceedings of IEEE Benelux Workshop on Model-Based Processing and Coding of Audio, November 2002, Leuven, Belgium.
  • Aucouturier, J.-J. and Pachet, F. Scaling up Music Playlist Generation. Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), August 2002, Lausanne, Switzerland.
  • Aucouturier, J.-J. and Pachet, F. Music Similarity Measures: What’s the Use?. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), October 2002, Paris, France.
  • Aucouturier, J.-J. and Sandler, M. Finding Repeating Patterns in Acoustic Musical Signals. Proceedings of the 22nd International AES Conference on Virtual, Synthetic and Entertainment Audio, June 2002, Espoo Finland.
    • 2001

    Peer-reviewed Conferences
  • Aucouturier, J.-J. and Sandler, M. Segmentation of Musical Signals Using Hidden Markov Models. Proceedings of the 110th AES Convention, May 2001, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
  • Aucouturier, J.-J. and Sandler, M. Using Long-term structure to Retrieve Music: Representation and Matching. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), October 2001, Bloomington (IN), USA.
  • Reiss, J., Aucouturier, J.-J. and Sandler, M. Efficient Multidimentional Searching Routines for Music Information retrieval. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), October 2001, Bloomington (IN), USA.