New Colleague: KCL team welcomes Jacopo de Berardinis
Jacopo de Berardinis brings his expertise in Music Information Retrieval to the Polifonia project
Jacopo de Berardinis is a postdoctoral research associate at King’s College London, currently working at the intersection of machine learning and knowledge representation for music. Previously, he was a PhD student at the Machine Learning and Robotics research group (University of Manchester), and research assistant at the Applied Music Research Lab (University of Liverpool).
Jacopo’s main research interests revolve around the application of machine learning techniques to the field of music information retrieval (MIR), with the goal of designing computational methods for the automatic analysis of music – serving the interests and needs of artists, musicologists, music psychologists and researchers. In particular, his work focuses on music structure analysis, music modelling and generation, and music emotion recognition.Jacopo de Berardinis brings expertise in the MIR research domain, and he is particularly excited about applying his previous research to the Polifonia project. He will focus on the INTERLINK pilot and will also be involved in FACETS. He strongly believes that the interdisciplinary nature of the project, hence the unique opportunity to collaborate with experts in the music domain, are the secret ingredients for creating music intelligence systems that everyone can use – from “my father teaching music in middle school, to my super creative bandmates always reworking musical ideas from the past“.
Image credits: Jacopo de Berardinis at his home office.
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In this new series on the Polifonia project website, the team would like to shed light on early adopters who have re-used Polifonia’s output. Polifonia’s primary goal is for its software, datasets and other applications to be used and exploited by stakeholders and other parties. One of our early adopters is Global Education Digest’s, which re-uses Polifonia’s CLEF, the platform for crowdsourcing and cataloguing that was developed for musoW.
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Many people would probably answer this question with a clear “no”. Is it because they really believe computers cannot? Or maybe there is an inner voice that refuses to believe that musical creativity is not exclusive to humans? In the meantime, AI systems such as DALL-E and ChatGPT have already proven unprecedented performance for generating images and textual artefacts, and are now becoming ubiquitous in our society. What about AI-generated music?
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This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement N. 101004746