145 research outputs found
Scale-invariance in gravity and implications for the cosmological constant
Recently a scale invariant theory of gravity was constructed by imposing a
conformal symmetry on general relativity. The imposition of this symmetry
changed the configuration space from superspace - the space of all Riemannian
3-metrics modulo diffeomorphisms - to conformal superspace - the space of all
Riemannian 3-metrics modulo diffeomorphisms and conformal transformations.
However, despite numerous attractive features, the theory suffers from at least
one major problem: the volume of the universe is no longer a dynamical
variable. In attempting to resolve this problem a new theory is found which has
several surprising and atractive features from both quantisation and
cosmological perspectives. Furthermore, it is an extremely restrictive theory
and thus may provide testable predictions quickly and easily. One particularly
interesting feature of the theory is the resolution of the cosmological
constant problem.Comment: Replaced with final version: minor changes to text; references adde
A Corpus of Annotated Irish Traditional Dance Music Recordings: Design and Benchmark Evaluations
An emerging trend in music information retrieval (MIR) is the use of supervised machine learning to train automatic music transcription models. A prerequisite of adopting a machine learning methodology is the availability of annotated corpora. However, different genres of music have different characteristics and modelling these characteristics is an important part of creating state of the art MIR systems. Consequently, although some music corpora are available the use of these corpora is tied to the specific music genre, instrument type and recording context the corpus covers. This paper introduces the first corpus of annotations of audio recordings of Irish traditional dance music that covers multiple instrument types and both solo studio and live session recordings. We first discuss the considerations that motivated our design choices in developing the corpus. We then benchmark a number of automatic music transcription algorithms against the corpus.
The underlying dataset for this research is available here at Github or here in Arrow
Key Inference from Irish Traditional Music Scores and Recordings
The aim of this paper is to present techniques and results for identifying the key of Irish traditional music melodies, or tunes. Several corpora are used, consisting of both symbolic and audio representations. Monophonic and heterophonic recordings are present in the audio datasets. Some particularities of Irish traditional music are discussed, notably its modal nature. New key-profiles are defined, that are better suited to Irish music
Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Folk Music Analysis, 15-17 June, 2016
The Folk Music Analysis Workshop brings together computational music analysis and ethnomusicology. Both symbolic and audio representations of music are considered, with a broad range of scientific approaches being applied (signal processing, graph theory, deep learning). The workshop features a range of interesting talks from international researchers in areas such as Indian classical music, Iranian singing, Ottoman-Turkish Makam music scores, Flamenco singing, Irish traditional music, Georgian traditional music and Dutch folk songs. Invited guest speakers were Anja Volk, Utrecht University and Peter Browne, Technological University Dublin
Rhythm Inference From Audio Recordings of Irish Traditional Music
A new method is proposed to infer rhythmic information from audio recordings of Irish traditional tunes. The method relies on he repetitive nature of this musical genre. Low-level spectral features and autocorrelation are used to obtain a low-dimensional representation, on which logistic regression models are trained. Two experiments are conducted to predict rhythmic information at different levels of precision. The method is tested on a collec- ion of session recordings, and high accuracy scores are reported.
A new method is proposed to infer rhythmic information from audio recordings of Irish traditional tunes. The method relies on he repetitive nature of this musical genre. Low-level spectral features and autocorrelation are used to obtain a low-dimensional representation, on which logistic regression models are trained. Two experiments are conducted to predict rhythmic information at different levels of precision. The method is tested on a collection of session recordings, and high accuracy scores are reported
Refractory times for excitable dual state quantum dot laser neurons
Excitable photonic systems show promise for ultrafast analog computation,
several orders of magnitude faster than biological neurons. Optically injected
quantum dot lasers display several excitable mechanisms with dual state quantum
lasers recently emerging as true all or none excitable artificial neurons. For
use in applications, deterministic triggering is necessary and this has
previously been demonstrated in the literature. In this work we analyse the
crucially important \emph{refractory time} for this dual state system, which
defines the minimum possible time between distinct pulses in any excitable
pulse train. Ultrashort times on the order of 1~ns are obtained suggesting
potential use where ultrafast analog computing is desired
Dissipative phase solitons in semiconductor lasers
We experimentally demonstrate the existence of non dispersive solitary waves
associated with a 2 phase rotation in a strongly multimode ring
semiconductor laser with coherent forcing. Similarly to Bloch domain walls,
such structures host a chiral charge. The numerical simulations based on a set
of effective Maxwell-Bloch equations support the experimental evidence that
only one sign of chiral charge is stable, which strongly affects the motion of
the phase solitons. Furthermore, the reduction of the model to a modified
Ginzburg Landau equation with forcing demonstrates the generality of these
phenomena and exposes the impact of the lack of parity symmetry in propagative
optical systems.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figure
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