Scientific Committee Awards

Best Research:

BebopNet: Deep Neural Models for Personalized Jazz Improvisations

Shunit Haviv Hakimi, Nadav Bhonker, Ran El-Yaniv

Awarded with Steinberg Wavelab!

Best Application:

Perceptual Vs. Automated Judgements of Music Copyright Infringement

Yuchen Yuan, Sho Oishi, Charles Cronin, Daniel Müllensiefen, Quentin Atkinson, Shinya Fujii, Patrick E. Savage

Best New Direction:

Sesquialtera in the Colombian Bambuco: Perception and Estimation of Beat and Meter

Estefania Cano, Fernando Mora Ángel, Gustavo Adolfo López Gil, José Ricardo Zapata, Antonio Escamilla, Juan Fernando Alzate Londoño, Moises Betancur Pelaez

Best Multi/Interdisciplinary Research:

Mode Classification and Natural Units in Plainchant

Bas Cornelissen, Willem Zuidema, John Ashley Burgoyne

Best Evaluation:

Deconstruct, Analyse, Reconstruct: How to Improve Tempo, Beat, and Downbeat Estimation

Sebastian Böck, Matthew Davies

Best Reproducibility:

Essentia.js: a JavaScript Library for Music and Audio Analysis on the Web

Albin Correya, Dmitry Bogdanov, Luis Joglar-Ongay, Xavier Serra

Best reviewer awards

Ashis Pati
Nicholas J. Bryan
Reinier de Valk
Daniel Stoller
David Sears
Eric Nichols
François Germain
Marcelo Caetano
Maximilian Schmitt
Stefanos Kalonaris
Marko Tkalcic
Andy Sarroff
Philippe Esling

Music Awards

1st place

A Room with Chaconne (Bach)

Seth Thorn

Awarded with Steinberg Cubase 10.5!

2nd place

Super Colliders

Takuto Fukuda

3rd place

I’ll Marry You, Punk Come

CJ Carr, Zack Zukowski, Rania Kim

Popular Vote Paper Awards

Best Poster Presentation (Sessions 1-3):

Hierarchical Musical Instrument Separation

Ethan Manilow, Gordon Wichern, Jonathan LeRoux

Best Poster Presentation (Sessions 4-6):

Detecting Collaboration Profiles in Success-based Music Genre Networks

Gabriel Oliveira, Mariana Santos, Danilo B Seufitelli, Anisio Lacerda, Mirella M Moro

Best Video (Sessions 1-3):

Hierarchical Musical Instrument Separation

Ethan Manilow, Gordon Wichern, Jonathan LeRoux

Best Video (Sessions 4-6):

Less Is More: Faster and Better Music Version Identification with Embedding Distillation

Furkan Yesiler, Joan Serra, Emilia Gomez

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