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I'm currently working at BMAT, as Chief Innovation Officer
research
PhD: "Music Recommendation and Discovery in the Long Tail" [en] (2008)
My research interests include:
- Music Recommendation, Music Discovery in large collections
- Complex Networks in Music Informatics
- Multimedia Ontologies and Semantic Web
publications
- For a complete (and up-to-date) list, see my MTG publications
- ...or see Google Scholar citations
invited talks
- ISMIR 2009 (Kobe, Japan) [en]: Industrial Panel Discussion (2009)
- Telefónica I+D (Barcelona, Spain) [en]: "Tools for Music Recommendation and Discovery" (2009)
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain). Master in Sound and Music Computing [en]: "Music Similarity is not Music Recommendation" (2009)
- Queen Mary University (London, UK) [en]: "The Long Tail ...or the Long Fail of Music Recommendation?" (2009)
- Indiana University (Bloomington, US): "Music Recommendation and discovery in the Long Tail" (2007)
- University of North Texas (Denton, US): "The text halo in music recommendation" (2007)
- AES 122 "Music Recommendation and Discovery in...which Web?" in MUSIC 2.0: Consuming and producing music in the 21st Century Workshop (Vienna, Austria) (2007) [en]. Slides available in PDF.
- ESMUC. Sonology Department [ca] (Barcelona, SPAIN): "Music Recommendation: A multifaceted approach" (2006)
- Opera Europa (Valencia, SPAIN) [en]: "The Digital Heritage of Opera in the Open Network Environment" (2005)
- AES 25th International Audio Engineering Society, Metadata for Audio [en] (London, UK): "Tools for Content-Based Retrieval and Transformation of Audio Using MPEG-7: The SPOff and the MDTools". Slides available in HTML (2004)
- Màster en Producció Sonora i Àudio Digital (Barcelona, SPAIN): "Overview of the MPEG-7 multimedia standard" (2004)
tutorials
- ACM Multimedia 2008 (Vancouver, CA) [en]: "If you like The Beatles you might like...A Tutorial on Music Recommendation" (2008)
- MICAI 2007 (Aguascalientes, Mexico) [en]: "Tutorial on Recommender Systems" (2007)
- ISMIR 2007 (Vienna, Austria) [en]: "Music Recommendation Tutorial", together with Paul Lamere (2007) [en] Slides available in PDF.
scientific services
organization of workshops
- AdMIRe: International Workshop on Advances in Music Information Research (San Diego, US) [en], Program Chair & Co-Organizer (2009)
- AES 122: MUSIC 2.0: Consuming and producing music in the 21st Century (Vienna, Austria) [en], Co-organizer (2007)
programme committee
- 16th International Multimedia Modeling Conference MMM (2010) [en]
- 1st Recommender-based Industrial Applications Workshop IndRec (2009) [en]
- 6th Sound and Music Computing Conference, SMC (2009) [en]
- 6th Annual European Semantic Web Conference, ESWC (2009), Semantic Web in Use Track [en]
- 4th International Conference on Semantics and digital Media Technologies, SAMT (2009) [en]
- ICMLA Special Session on Machine Learning with Multimedia Data (2009) [en]
- 3rd International Conference on Semantics and digital Media Technologies, SAMT (2008) [en]
- 17th International Conference on Computing CIC (2008) [en]
- 16th International Conference on Computing CIC (2007) [en]
- 1st Workshop on Multimedia Annotation and Retrieval enabled by Shared Ontologies, MAReSO (2007) [en]
- International Workshop on Learning Semantics from Audio Signals, LSAS (2006, 2008, 2009) [en]
reviewer
- Journals: IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (ISSN 1520-9210), IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing (ISSN: 1558-7916), ACM Transactions on Information Systems (ISSN 1046-8188), Journal of Web Semantics (ISSN 1570-8268), Springer Multimedia Tools and Applications (ISSN 1573-7721), Journal of New Music Research (ISSN 1744-5027)
- Conferences: International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), 3rd International Conference on Semantics and digital Media Technologies (SAMT), 6th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (MICAI), 2nd ACM Workshop Exploiting Semantic Annotations in Information Retrieval ESAIR (2009) [en]
member of local organization staff
- International Computer Music Conference (ICMC 2005), Barcelona, Spain, September 5-10, 2005
- International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR 2004) [en], Barcelona, Spain, October 10-14, 2004
projects
Things you can try:
- foafing the music : music recommendation tool
- searchsounds : music discovery on the web
- PheXist : A PHP5 class to XQuery eXist native XML:DB
- Genre navigator : Tag Cloud of the main Last.fm genres
- Spotify:
EU projects I've been involved:
teaching
Department of Information and Communication Technologies [ca] of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra [ca]:
- 2001-2007: Estructures de Dades i de la Informacio II [ca]
- 2004-2005: Estructures de Dades i de la Informacio I [ca]
Masters and Postgraduate Programs in Communication and Digital Media (IUA-IDEC) [ca]:
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya [ca]
- 2003-: Bases de Dades I
- 2004-: Projectes Finals de Carrera: BD-XML i Web Semàntica
brief biography
- 2000-2008: Researcher and project manager at the Music Technology Group (MTG) [en]
- 2001-2008: Teaching at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) [ca]
- 2003- : Teaching at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya [ca]
- 2004: Professor Col.laborador, from the Agencia de Qualitat Universitaria (AQUCatalunya) [ca]
- 2005: Co-founder of the BMAT company [en], a spin-off of the MTG
- 2006: Invited expert of the W3C Incubator Group - Multimedia Semantics [en]
- 2006: Won the 2nd prize of the Semantic Web Challenge [en], for the Foafing the Music system
- 2007: Research grant from the Mexican government. Invited researcher in the Computer Science Research Center (CIC-IPN) [es]
- 2008: PhD, "Music Recommendation and Discovery in the Long Tail", Department of Information and Communication Technologies, UPF [en]
- 2009: Co-founder of EuroMM, the European Chapter of the SIGMM [en]
- 2009-: Chief Innovation Officer at BMAT [en]
contact
Address:
Barcelona Music & Audio Technologies
Llacuna, 162
Barcelona, 08018, SPAIN.
Map
Email: o c e l m a _ a t _ b m a t . c o m
Skype: oscar.celma
Tel: +34 93 486 94 07
Fax: +34 93 401 98 93