People

Current Developers:

Main Designer and Developer George Tzanetakis

I am an assistant professor in Computer Science (also cross-listed in Music and Electrical and Computer Engineering) at the University of Victoria in Canada. I received my PhD in Computer Science from Princeton University under the supervision of Dr. Perry Cook. I also worked at Carnegie Mellon University as a PostDoctoral Fellow with Dr. Roger Dannenberg on query-by-humming systems and audio-score alignment and with the Informedia group on multimodal video retrieval and microphone arrays.

I have also consulted with several companies using Marsyas. They include&58 Moodlogic Inc. (audio fingerpriting), All Music Inc, The Netherlands (music-speech classification), and Teligence Communications Inc. (gender classification of voice recordings).

My research deals with all stages of audio content analysis such as feature extraction, segmentation, classification, retrieval and source separation with specific focus on Music Information Retrieval (MIR). I am also an active musician and have studied saxophone performance, music theory and composition.

Windows and Qt Guru (Portuguese Invasion 1) Luis Gustavo Martins

I am a PhD student and researcher at the Audio Group of the Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit of INESC Porto, Porto, Portugal. My main work interests are in the areas of Digital Signal Processing and Semantic Audio Analysis.

Video, Python, upcoming Marsyas-0.x (Portuguese Invasion 2) Luis Teixeira

I'm a PhD student at FEUP and a researcher at the Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit of INESC Porto. Currently most of my time is consumed by my PhD and by the strange experiments I'm doing with Marsyas like trying to get video to work in it, and who knows what more! As for the PhD, the focus is on the detection of events and automatic description of multi-sensor systems. Previously I worked with MPEG-4 and MPEG-7 for a video editing framework during MSc. That was back in 2004. Before, i.e. since I started my collaboration with INESC Porto in 2001 until 2004, I collaborated in several research projects mainly on distributed multimedia systems. Multimodal analysis, fusion of information from multiple types of sources and multimedia distributed systems are my main research interests. C/C++ and Python are the tools of the trade.

Author of the most complex MarSystem network Mathieu Lagrange

I am a Post-Doctoral at the computer science department under the supervision of George Tzanetakis. I have a Phd on Sinusoidal Modeling of Polyphonic Sounds from the University of Bordeaux, France. I have also worked in the R&D department of France Telecom for three years on audio analysis and coding for multimedia purposes.

Lilypond, Documentation Editor Graham Percival

I am a Masters student in Computer Science and Music, working on software to help beginning string students. I am also the Documentation Editor and Bug Meister for GNU/LilyPond.

Open Sound Control, Chuck, Percussion and Live Electroacoustic Music Adam Tindale

Ruby guy Steven Ness

Steven is a coder and musician. He is working on the Marsyas website, and did the conversion into Ruby on Rails. He's also working on the Ruby and Python interfaces to Marsyas.

Previous developers and influences

A large number of people have helped me with Marsyas. First and probably most important my advisor Perry Cook provided many ideas and almost never complained about me spending too much time writing software. Georg Essl and all the people at the sound lab of Princeton were helpful in many ways as well as being good friends.

More specifically Corrie Elder, John Forsyth, Douglas Turnbull , George Tourtellot, Ari Lazier and Andrey Ermolinskyi (all undergraduates at Princeton at the time) did interesting projects and contributed code to Marsyas-0.1.