Dept. Computer Science III
University of Bonn

Contact

Current Position

• Research assistant and Ph.D. student in the computer science department at the University of Bonn, Germany and the Max-Planck-Institut Informatik (Supervisor: Priv. Doz. Dr. Meinard Müller )

Research interests

• Alignment techniques for music
• Music structure analysis
• Source separation
• Music Information Retrieval

Teaching

• Lecture assistant: Grundlagen des Multimedia Retrieval, Summer semester 2008
• Lecture assistant: Introduction to Digital Signal Processing, winter semester 2007/2008

• Seminar Aktuelle Themen aus dem Music Information Retrieval Sebastian Ewert, David Damm, Christian Fremerey, Prof. Dr. Michael Clausen, Sommersemester 2009
• Praktikum Multimedia Signalverarbeitung Christian Fremerey, Prof. Dr. Michael Clausen, Sebastian Ewert, David Damm, , Wintersemester 2008/2009
• Praktikum Optical Music Recognition Postprocessing Christian Fremerey, Prof. Dr. Michael Clausen, Sebastian Ewert, Sommersemester 2008

Publications

Müller M., Ewert S. (2009): Towards Timbre-Invariant Audio Features for Harmony-Based Music, To appear in IEEE Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing . (BibTeX)

Ewert S., Müller M., Dannenberg R. (2009): Towards Reliable Partial Music Alignments Using Multiple Synchronization Strategies, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval (AMR) (to appear). (BibTeX)

Fremerey C., Clausen M., Ewert S., Müller M. (2009): Sheet Music-Audio Identification, Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR 2009). (BibTeX)

Müller M., Konz V., Scharfstein A., Ewert S., Clausen M. (2009): Towards Automated Extraction of Tempo Parameters from Expressive Music Recordings, Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR 2009). (BibTeX)

Ewert S., Müller M., Grosche P. (2009): High Resolution Audio Synchronization using Chroma Onset Features, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2009). (BibTeX)

Müller M., Ewert S., Kreuzer S. (2009): Making Chroma Features More Robust To Timbre Changes, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2009). (BibTeX)

Müller M., Ewert S. (2008): Joint Structure Analysis With Applications To Music Annotation And Synchronization, Proceedings of the International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR): 389–394. (BibTeX)

Ewert S., Müller M. (2008): Refinement Strategies for Music Synchronization, Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval (CMMR 2008). (BibTeX)

Kurth F., Müller M., Ewert S., Clausen M. (2008): Vektorquantisierung chromabasierter Audiomerkmale, Proceedings of the 34. Deutsche Jahrestagung für Akustik (DAGA 2008). (BibTeX)

Diploma thesis

• Effiziente Methoden zur hochauflösenden Musiksynchronisation
  Efficient methods for high resolution music synchronization (german only)