• Topic: Interactive dancing robots
• Partners: INESC Porto, Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science Lab/FEUP, Honda Research Institute Japan, IPEM-Ghent University
• Funding: FCT PhD grant
• Dates: 2007-present
• Special credit: MARSYAS

Lego NXT Dancing to the Rhythm

A Lego-NXT-based humanoid robot dancing to the rhythm of prodigy. It reacts in real-time to multimodal events, from musical note-onsets and dance floor colors, with user-defined dance motions. [paper]

Synchronized Robot Dancing

RoboNova dancing to Blur. Each sequence of moves is synchronized to the musical beats on-the-fly, retrieved from the real-time INESC Porto Beat Tracker (IBT). [paper1]; [paper2]

Humanoid Robot Dancing Samba

Simulated humanoid robot NAO dancing samba. The dance movements were mapped from MoCap (motion capture) recordings of human samba performances. [paper1]; [paper2]; [paper3]

Beat Tracking for Robot Audition and Live Beat-Synchronous Robot Dancing

Interactive robot dancing system that simultaneously processes and responds to the beat of continuous musical stimuli and to the speech of a human interactor in a real-world scenario. [paper1]; [paper2]; [paper3]

PPIIM stands for “Projecto de Pesquisa em Interpretação de Informações Mutimédia: Reconhecimento de Géneros Musicais”

• Topic: Music Genre Classification, Autotagging
• Partners: INESC Porto, PPGIA-PUCPR, Department of Informatics University of Lisbon
• Funding: FCT/CAPES transnational cooperation programme between Portugal and Brasil (Grant Proc. 4.4.1.00 CAPES)
• Dates: 2009-2012

• Topic: Music Information Retrieval
• Partners: UPF (Barcelona), BMAT (Barcelona), OFAI (Vienna), IRCAM (Paris), INESC Porto (Porto), Stromatalite (London), QMUL (London)
• Project leader: Stromatolite
• Funding: EU
• Dates: 2011-2013
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A Computational Auditory Scene Analysis Framework for Sound Segregation in Music Signals

• Topic: Computational Auditory Scene Analysis; Source separation; Music Information Retrieval
• Partners: Universidade Católica Portuguesa; INESC Porto; IRCAM; University of Victoria
• Project leader: Universidade Católica Portuguesa
• Funding: FCT (Grant PTDC/EIA-CCO/111050/2009)
• Dates: 2011-2014

SID is the COST IC0601 Action on Sonic Interaction Design.

• Topic: Sonic Interaction Design
• Partners
• Project Chair: Universita IUAV di Venezia
• Funding: COST
• Dates: 2007-2011

In the SID COST Action, our group participated in a number of Short-Term Scientific Missions:

1. “Soundscape analysis using music principles and technologies” – Ming Yang from University of Sheffield, to our group; February-March 2011
2. IMPROVe Sound Object Instrument” – Richard Widerberg from Valand School of Fine Arts, University of Gothenburg, to our group; November 2010
3. Interactive Music 2.0: User-driven ad hoc dance clubs” – Yago De Quay from our group to University of Oslo, Dept. of Musicology and Informatics: Aug-Sept 2010
4. “Mapping Human Dance Gestures onto Robots” – João Oliveira from our group to IPEM, Ghent University; November 2009
5. “Interactions between dance movements and music rhythmic structure – The case of groove in Samba” – Luiz Naveda from IPEM, Ghent University to our group; May 18-June 1st, 2009
6. “UrbanSync: Gathering of urban signals” Stephan Baumann; from German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Kaiserslautern, to our group; 6/10/08 – 26/10/08
7. “Exploring contact sound synthesis via haptic interactions” – Mathieu Lagrange; from IRCAM to our group; April 2008
8. “Implementation of Auditory Scene Analysis cues in the free sound analysis framework MARSYAS” – Luis Gustavo Martins; from our group to CIRMMT, Montreal; June 2008