Currently
Currently
Senior Scientist (Fraunhofer IDMT) & Co-Investigator of the DFG-funded project Informed Sound Activity Detection in Music and Audio Recordings (ISAD 2) in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Meinard Müller from the International Audio Laboratories in Erlangen
Postdoctoral Researcher (International Audio Laboratories Erlangen)
Scientific Activity
- guest editor @ EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing (JASM) call: “Recent advances in computational sound scene analysis” (2021/22)
- paper co-chair @ 2017 AES International Conference on Semantic Audio
- guest editor @ AES special session issue on semantic music production
- reviewer @ ISMIR, ICASSP, CMMR, SMC, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, TISMIR
Memberships
- German Acoustical Society (DEGA)
- International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR)
Awards / Honurs
- 2005: ERASMUS scholarship
- 2010: DAAD Scholarship - “Kurzzeitstipendium für Doktoranden”
- 2019: Best Paper Award @ 14th International Symposium on Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research (CMMR): “Towards Deep Learning Strategies for Transcribing Electroacoustic Music” (Matthias Nowakowski, Christof Weiß and Jakob Abeßer)
- 2021: Best Paper Award @ 15th International Symposium on Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research (CMMR) “Deep Learning-Based Music Instrument Recognition: Exploring Learned Feature Representations” (Michael Taenzer, Stylianos I. Mimilakis and Jakob Abeßer)
Education
2002 - 2008
Technical University, Ilmenau
Dipl.-Ing.
2008 - 2014
Technical University, Ilmenau
Dr.-Ing.
Occupation
Since 04/2021
Senior Scientist, Fraunhofer IDMT
01/2018 – 07/2021
Principal Investigator, Fraunhofer IDMT
- Co-Investigator of the DFG-funded project Informed Sound Activity Detection in Music Recordings (ISAD) (Project website) in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Meinard Müller from the International Audio Laboratories in Erlangen
- Student supervision
- Teaching activities
- Project aquisition & management
- Research
2014-2018
Postdoctoral Researcher, Fraunhofer IDMT
- Project acquisition & management
- Research & Scientific Publications
- Teaching & Student Supervision
2012-2017
Research Assistant, Jazzomat Research Project (Project website), Franz Liszt School of Music in Weimar, Germany
- Developing methods for the computer-aided analysis of jazz improvisations
2010
Guest Researcher, Finnish Centre of Excellence in Interdisciplinary Music Research at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland
- Computational performance analysis of music ensembles (jazz, funk, rock, etc.)
2008-2014
Research Assistant, Fraunhofer IDMT
- Software Development
- Student supervision
- Project acquisition & work
- Research & Scientific Publications
2005
Exchange Student, Université Paul Verlain, Metz, France
- Computer science studies
Patents
- Input interface for generating control signals by acoustic gestures (US9117429B2)
- Device, Method and Computer Program for Acoustic Monitoring of a Monitoring Area (US20210043193A1)
Acquired Projects
- Informed Sound Activity Detection in Music Recordings (ISAD) (2018-2020, DFG individual research grant, joint project with Prof. Meinard Müller, International Audio Laboratories / FAU Erlangen)