Title: Generating structured music with local search and machine learningSpeaker: Dr. Dorien HerremansAffiliation: School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science - Queen Mary UniversityLocation: LT 144 Huxley BuildingTime: 3:30pmAbstract. Many state of the art music generation/improvisation systems generate music that sounds good on a note-to-note level. However, these compositions often lack long term structure or... Read more »

Title: Families of Convex and Non-Convex Composite Optimization Problems for Signal Processing and Computer VisionSpeaker: Dr. Stefanos ZafeiriouAffiliation: Department of Computing - Imperial College LondonLocation: Room 217 - 218 Huxley BuildingTime: 3:00pmAbstract. About the speaker. Stefanos Zafeiriou is a Senior Lecturer (equivalent to Associate Professor) in Pattern Recognition/Statistical Machine Learning for Computer Vision in the... Read more »