An evolutionary computation approach to intelligent music production informed by experimentally gathered domain knowledge (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Wilson, A., & Fazenda, B. (2016, September). An evolutionary computation approach to intelligent music production informed by experimentally gathered domain knowledge. Presented at 2nd AES Workshop on Intelligent Music Production (WIMP), London, UK

A novel methodology for intelligent music production has been developed using evolutionary computation. Mixes are generated by exploration of a “mix-space”, which consists of a series of inter-channel volume ratios, allowing efficient generation of r... Read More about An evolutionary computation approach to intelligent music production informed by experimentally gathered domain knowledge.

Variation in multitrack mixes : analysis of low-level audio signal features (2016)
Journal Article
Wilson, A., & Fazenda, B. (2016). Variation in multitrack mixes : analysis of low-level audio signal features. Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, 64(7/8), 466-473. https://doi.org/10.17743/jaes.2016.0029

To further the development of intelligent music production tools, towards generating mixes that would realistically be created by a human mix-engineer, it is important to understand what kind of mixes can be created, and are typically created, by h... Read More about Variation in multitrack mixes : analysis of low-level audio signal features.

Perception and automated assessment of audio quality in user generated content (2016)
Conference Proceeding
quality in user generated content. In Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX), 2016 Eighth International Conference on 6-8 June 2016. https://doi.org/10.1109/QoMEX.2016.7498974

Technology to record sound, available in personal devices such as smartphones or video recording devices, is now ubiquitous. However, the production quality of the sound on this user-generated content is often very poor: distorted, noisy, with garble... Read More about Perception and automated assessment of audio quality in user generated content.

Relationship between hedonic preference and audio quality in tests of music production quality (2016)
Book Chapter
Wilson, A., & Fazenda, B. (2016). Relationship between hedonic preference and audio quality in tests of music production quality. In 2016 Eighth International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX) (1-6). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/QoMEX.2016.7498937

In many subjective listening tests, audio is evaluated on either "quality" or "preference". These terms are often conflated. Little evidence has been gathered which explains the subtle differences between these terms in audio perception --- we may no... Read More about Relationship between hedonic preference and audio quality in tests of music production quality.

Evaluating a distortion-weighted glimpsing metric for predicting binaural speech intelligibility in rooms (2016)
Journal Article
Tang, Y., Hughes, R., Fazenda, B., & Cox, T. (2016). Evaluating a distortion-weighted glimpsing metric for predicting binaural speech intelligibility in rooms. Speech Communication, 82, 26-37. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.specom.2016.04.003

A distortion-weighted glimpse proportion metric (BiDWGP) for predicting binaural speech intelligibility were evaluated in simulated anechoic and reverberant conditions, with and without a noise masker. The predictive performance of BiDWGP was compare... Read More about Evaluating a distortion-weighted glimpsing metric for predicting binaural speech intelligibility in rooms.