RESUME Name: Diploma: Speciality: Born: Nationality: PEETERS Geoffroy Master in Electronical Engineering sciences PhD in Computer Science Audio Signal processing / analysis October 23, 1971 in Leuven (Belgium) Belgian Private Contact: Rue de Montreuil, 57 F-75011 Paris (France) Phone: 33/1/43.48.70.03 Email: geoffroypeeters@hotmail.com Professional Contact: Ircam pl. Igor Stravinsky, 1 F-75004 Paris (France) Phone: 33/1/44.78.14.22 Email: peeters@ircam.fr 1 CURRENT ACTIVITY Research & Development at IRCAM for CUIDADO (I.S.T. European Project), CUIDAD (Esprit European Project) on Music Information Retrieval Coordinator of research activities on signal feature extraction for CUIDADO AFNOR representative and contributors in the ISO 15938-4 standard, MPEG-7 Multimedia Content Description Interface, co-editor of ISO 15938-4-2001 Publications: ICMC99 (China), CBIM99 (France), ICMC2000 (Germany), AES 110 th Co n- vention (The Netherlands), ICMC2002 (Sweden), ISMIR2002 (France), Journal of New Musical Research (2003), CMMR03 (France), CBMI03 (France), ICMC03 (Singapore), DAFX03 (UK), AES 115 th Convention (US) Patents: 3 Patents on MIR 2 TEACHING ACTIVITIES Teacher in Acoustic and Digital Signal Processing for the Hypermedia/Multimedia Master of ENSBA/Telecom Paris Teacher in Music Information Retrieval for the Hypermedia courses of the UTC and the Jeux Video Master of the CNAM 1/5
3 HIGHER EDUCATION 3.1 Postgraduate Studies (1995-2001) 3.1.1 PhD thesis (1996-2001) with the highest degree [2001] Ph.D thesis at the University Paris VI, carried out within the Analysis/Synthesis Team of IRCAM, PhD thesis subject: Modèles et modélisation du signal sonore adaptés à ses caractéristiques locales, (Promoters: X. Rodet, President of the Jury: Stephan Mallat, Jury: Th. Dutoit, Ch. d Alessandro, Ph. Depalle, X. Serra) Publications: in JIM98 (France), DAFX98 (Spain), ICMC99 (China), ICSPAT99 (USA), ICMC2000 (Germany), Journal La Recherche N 358 (11/2002) Participation to the Vatel movie post-production (R. Joffé), Vercingétorix movie postproduction (J. Dorfmann), and «K» opera production (Ph. Manoury) 3.1.2 DEA-Master(1995-1996) Master in Acoustique et Traitement Informatique Appliqué à la Musique" (DEA ATIAM) at the University Paris VI, (and Aix-Marseille II, Le Mans, Telecom Paris, and IRCAM Master thesis subject: "Real Time Implementation of Variable Fractional Delay on Real- Time Platform Max/FTS, for simulation of Wind Instruments" (Promoters: X. Rodet and Ph. Depalle) Publications: in ICMC96 3.2 Previous University Studies (1991-1995) at the Catholic University of Louvain - UCL (Louvain-La-Neuve - Belgium) 3.2.1 "Ingénieur civil électricien" (Master in electronical engineering sciences) with honours [1995] Specialisation: TELECOMMUNICATION (Propagation and radiation, Signal processing, Electromagnetism, Hyperfrequencies), ELECTRONICS End study dissertation (with great honours) carried out during a European "Erasmus" exchange program at the University "La Sapienza" in Rome (Italy). Subject: "Prediction of Tropospheric Scintillation on Satellite-Earth Microwave links" (Promoters: Dr D. Vanhoenacker for Louvain-La-Neuve, Prof. G. d'auria for Rome) Publication: "Evaluation of Statistical Models for Clear Sky Scintillation Prediction Using Olympus Satellite Measurements", (Peeters, Marzano, d Auria, Riva, Vanhoenacker), International Journal on Satellite Communication, January 1997 3.2.2 "Candidat Ingénieur civil" (undergraduate) with great honours [1992] 3.2.3 Training courses: Summer courses at University of Coimbra (Portugal) on "Renewable energies" Courses at University of Delft (the Netherlands) on "Radar Remote Sensing" 2/5
4 OTHER ACTIVITIES 4.1 Data processing abilities: Programming languages in practice: C/C++, Java, Matlab, Pascal, Fortran Environment and Operating System fluent in practice: PC (Windows/Linux), Mac and UNIX stations (word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, Internet/Networks) 4.2 Languages (reading, writing, speaking) French (mother language), English (good level), Italian (basic level), Dutch (basic level) 4.3 Musical Education and Activities Musical education within an Academy program: Classic solfa (5 years), Classic trumpet (9 years) Other Musical education: Training (6 days) in "latino" music at the Academy of Neufchâteau (Belgium), Training (6 days) in jazz harmony at the Academy "Les Lundis d'hortense" (Belgium), Private courses in jazz harmony (1 year), Training in Javanese Gamelan (3 years) (La Cite de la Musique, Paris) Instruments played: Trumpet, Guitar, Synth-guitar, Bowed-fretless-guitar, Bass, Keyboard, Computer Music (sound processing/editing, sound synthesis, real-time synthesis, midi, sequencer, ) Composition, production, arrangement: 4 CDs for the Italian label Musica Maxima Magnetica, 1 CD for the French label Prikosnovenie, Musical pieces for theatre Organisation of numerous concerts and open-air festivals within the framework of a University project in the Brussels region 3/5
5 LIST OF PUBLICATIONS 5.1 Reports Master thesis (september 1996): "Real Time Implementation of Variable Fractional Delay on Real-Time Platform Max/FTS, for simulation of Wind Instruments" (Promoters: X. Rodet and Ph. Depalle) PhD thesis (july 2001): Modèles et modélisation du signal sonore adaptés à ses caractéristiques locales, (Promoters: X. Rodet, President of the Jury: Stephan Mallat) 5.2 Journals Geoffroy Peeters, Franco Marzano, Danielle Vanhoenacker, André Vandervorst, Giovanni Doria, Evaluation of Statistical Models for Clear Sky Scintillation Prediction Using Olympus Satellite Measurements, International Journal on Satellite Communication, April 1997 Geoffroy Peeters, Pourquoi Gerard Depardieu parle anglais sans accent, La Recherche, N 358, November 2002 Perfecto Herrera, Geoffroy Peeters, Shlomo Dubnov Automatic Classification of Musical Sounds, Journal of New Musical Research 5.3 Book chapters Geoffroy Peeters, Deriving Musical Structures from Signal Analysis for Music Audio Summary Generation : Sequence and State approach, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Verlag, in preparation 5.4 Patents Three US patents on Music Information Retrieval 5.5 International Standard Co-editor of ISO 15938-4 standard, MPEG-7 Multimedia Content Description Interface: Audio part 5.6 Conference communications Signal processing Geoffroy Peeters, Analyse et Synthèse des sons musicaux par la méthode PSOLA, JIM98- Workshop Agelonde (France), May 1998 Geoffroy Peeters, Xavier Rodet, Sinusoidal Characterization in terms of Sinusoidal and Non-Sinusoidal Components, DAFX98-Workshop Barcelona (Spain), November 1998 Geoffroy Peeters, Xavier Rodet, SINOLA: A New Analysis/Synthesis using Spectrum Peak Shape Distortion, Phase and Reassigned Spectrum, ICMC99 Beijing (China), October 1999 4/5
Geoffroy Peeters, Xavier Rodet, Non-Stationary Analysis/Synthesis using Spectrum Peak Shape Distortion, Phase and Reassignement ICSPAT99 Orlando (USA), November 1999 Norbert Schnell, Geoffroy Peeters, Serge Lemouton, Philippe Manoury, Xavier Rodet, Synthesizing a choir in real-time using Pitch-Synchronous Overlap Add (PSOLA), ICMC2000 Berlin (Germany), August 2000 Music Information Retrieval Geoffroy Peeters, Gerard Assayag, Tutorial on Digital Music Representations, ISMIR 2002 Paris (France), October 2002 MPEG-7 Perfecto Herrera, Xavier Serra, Geoffroy Peeters, Audio Descriptors and Descriptors Schemes in the Context of MPEG-7, ICMC99 Beijing (China), October 1999 Perfecto Herrera, Xavier Serra, Geoffroy Peeters, A proposal for the description of audio in the context of MPEG-7, CBMI99 Toulouse (France), October 1999 Geoffroy Peeters, Stephen McAdams, Perfecto Herrera, Instrument Sound Description in the Context of MPEG-7, ICMC2000 Berlin (Germany), August 2000 Geoffroy Peeters, MPEG-7 Audio - What is it about? Musical Timbre Similarity AES 110th Convention Amsterdam (The Netherlands), May 2001 Sound Classification Geoffroy Peeters, Xavier Rodet, Automatically selecting signal descriptors for Sound Classification, ICMC 2002 Göteborg (Sweden), September 2002 Geoffroy Peeters, Hierachical Gaussian Tree with Inertia Ratio Maximization for the Classification of Large Musical Instrument Database, DAFX 2003, London (UK), September 2003 Geoffroy Peeters, Automatic Classification of Large Musical Instrument Databases using Hierarchical Classifiers with Inertia Ratio Maximization, AES 115 th Convention, New York (US), October 2003 Audio Summary Geoffroy Peeters, Amaury La Burthe, Xavier Rodet, Toward Automatic Music Audio Summary Generation from Signal Analysis, ISMIR 2002 Paris (France), October 2002 Geoffroy Peeters, Xavier Rodet Deriving Musical Structures from Signal Analysis for Music Audio Summary Generation: Sequence and State approach, CMMR2003, Montpellier (France), May 2003, CBMI2003, Rennes (France), September 2003, ICMC2003, Singapore, (Singarpore), September 2003 5/5