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Christos Plachouras
7th October 2025

AIM at WASPAA 2025

On 12-15 October, several AIM researchers will participate in the 2025 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics, taking place at the Granlibakken Tahoe Resort near Lake Tahoe, in Tahoe City, CA, USA. WASPAA is a premier event in the field of audio signal processing, organised by the IEEE’s Audio and Acoustic Signal Processing (AASP) technical committee, with a strong focus on music signal processing and computational sound scene analysis.

AIM, as in previous years, will have a strong presence at WASPAA 2025.

In the Technical Programme, the following papers are authored by AIM members:

In the Demo Session, the following demos will be presented by AIM members:

  • Neural Audio Synthesis for Non-Keyboard Instruments (Franco Caspe, Andrew McPherson, Mark Sandler)
  • PCA-DiffVox: Augmenting Vocal Effects Tweakability With a Bijective Latent Space (Chin-Yun Yu, Marco A. Martínez-Ramírez, Junghyun Koo, Wei-Hsiang Liao, Yuki Mitsufuji, George Fazekas)

See you at WASPAA!

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Christos Plachouras
7th October 2025

DMRN+20 one day workshop

DMRN+20 marks the 20th edition of DMRN. Moreover, this annual gathering has a history under other names, making it an institution that’s closer to 25 years old! This year, we celebrate that history and the ever-growing presence of music computing in and around London. In addition to the usual offering (top-notch research and a friendly, social atmosphere), we’ll also consider the past and future of DMRN, and the possible roles for a regionally organised network of this kind in the next few years. This event is hosted at KCL in collaboration with – but outside of – C4DM for the first time in many years, and takes the theme “Collaboration, Coordination, and Community”.

AIM has been a part of DMRN since 2018, with all cohorts presenting posters at the event. A few AIM students will surely be presenting this year as well.

 

Theme: “Collaboration, Coordination, and Community”.

This year’s theme is “Collaboration, Coordination, and Community”. You may like to include a nod to this theme in your submission (this is optional!) and/or in your chats with others at the event. For example, you might like to discuss research communities at both local (e.g., DMRN) and global (e.g., ISMIR) scales. Likewise, you might consider the wider music scholarship communities with which we sometimes have less interaction than we ought (e.g., ICMPC). And what about the much wider communities of musicians (professional and amateur) in London and beyond? What does successful collaborative, coordinated, and community-oriented work look like, and what might DMRN’s role be?

Tuesday 16th December 2025

🕚 10:00–17:00hrs
📍 King’s College London

More info: https://www.qmul.ac.uk/dmrn/dmrn20/

Call for Contributions is already open.

Deadlines

  • 14 Nov 2025: Abstract submission deadline
  • 21 Nov 2025: Notification of acceptance
  • 15 Dec 2025: Registration deadline
  • 16 Dec 2025: DMRN+20 Workshop

See you there!

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Christos Plachouras
1st October 2025

Best student paper and outstanding reviewer awards at ISMIR 2025

We are delighted to share that AIM PhD student Ben Hayes, along with AIM supervisors Charalampos Saitis and George Fazekas, have received the best student paper award at the ISMIR 2025 conference. The paper “Audio Synthesizer Inversion in Symmetric Parameter Spaces With Approximately Equivariant Flow Matching” proposes using permutation equivariant continuous normalizing flows to handle the ill-posed problem of audio synthesizer inversion, where multiple parameter configurations can produce identical sounds due to intrinsic symmetries in synthesizer design. By explicitly modeling these symmetries, particularly permutation invariance across repeated components like oscillators and filters, the method outperforms both regression-based approaches and symmetry-naive generative models on both synthetic tasks and a real-world synthesizer (Surge XT).

 

We are also happy to share that two AIM PhD students, Yannis Vasilakis and Ben Hayes, were recognised as outstanding reviewers.

 

This wraps up a fantastic week at ISMIR 2025 in Daejeon, South Korea, with very strong AIM participation. Pictured are current and past C4DM members, including many AIM members.

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