Jose R. Zapata
I Have a bachelor degree in Electronic Engineer (2003) and a Master Degree in Telecommunications From Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana (Medellin, Colombia) Currently I am a PhD candidate in Sound and Music Computing (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)and joined Music Technology Group in Barcelona in 2009 under the supervision of Xavier Serra and Emilia Gómez.My research interests include Audio Tempo estimation and Beat Tracking. My main field of interest is Music Information Retrieval (MIR), with a focus on audio and music processing.
Publications
2012Holzapfel Andre, Davies,Matthew; Zapata,Jose; Oliveira,Joao Lobato; Gouyon,Fabien. "On the automatic identification of difficult examples for beat tracking: towards building new evaluation datasets", IEEE The 37th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2012), Kyoto, Japan. March 2012.
2011
Zapata, Jose; Gómez, Emilia. "Comparative Evaluation and Combination of Audio Tempo Estimation Approaches", AES 42nd International Conference: Semantic Audio, Ilmenau, Germany. pp. 198 - 207, Jul 2011.
http://www.aes.org/e-lib/browse.cfm?elib=15964
Evaluation Results
Zapata, Jose; Gómez, Emilia. "Combination of Audio Tempo Estimation Approaches (MIREX 2011 Submission)", MIREX 2011, Audio Tempo Estimation Task. Oct, 2011.
http://www.music-ir.org/mirex/abstracts/2011/ZG1.pdf
2008
Zapata G., José; Garcia, Ricardo A. "Efficient Detection of Exact Redundancies in Audio Signals", 125 AES Convention, San Francisco, EEUU.Oct 2008. paper number = 7504.
http://www.aes.org/e-lib/browse.cfm?elib=14657
