Seminar on Computational Learning and Adaptation


  Constructive Adaptive User Interfaces - Composing Music Based on Human Feelings

Masayuki Numao
Tokyo Institute of Technology
2-12-1, O-okayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 152-8552 Japan
http://www.nm.cs.titech.ac.jp/
numao@cs.titech.ac.jp

We propose a method to locate relations and constraints between a music score and its impressions, by which we show that machine learning techniques may provide a powerful tool for composing music and analyzing human feelings. We examine its generality by modifying some arrangements to provide the subjects with a specified impression. This talk introduces some user interfaces, which are joint work with Shoichi Takagi, Keisuke Nakamura and Masashi Oikawa. They are capable of predicting feelings and creating new objects based on seed structures, such as spectrums and their transition for sounds that have been extracted and are perceived as favorable by the test subject.



Date: Thurs., March 29

Time: 4:15-5:30PM

Place: Cordura 100


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