Department of Computing

City School of Informatics People Tillman Weyde

Short Research Bio

Tillman Weyde is a Lecturer at the Department of Computing. Before that he was a researcher and coordinator of the MUSITECH project at the Research Department of Music and Media Technology at the University of Osnabrück. He holds degrees in Computer Science, Music, and Mathematics and obtained his PhD in Systematic Musicology on the topic of analysis of rhythms based on knowlege and machine learning. He is an associated member of the Institue of Cognitive Science and the Research Department of Music and Media Technolgy of the University of Osnabrück and has given invited talks among others at the IRCAM, Paris, Technical University of Berlin, University of Karlsruhe. He is co-author of the educational software "Computer Courses in Music Ear Training" Published at Schott Music, which received the Comenius Medal for Exemplary Educational Media in 2000 and co-editor of the Osnabrück Series on Music and Computation. Tillman was a consultant to the NEUMES project at Harvard University and he is a member of the MPEG Ad-Hoc-Group on Symbolic Music Representation (SMR), working on the integration of SMR into MPEG-4. He is currently the principal investigator at City of the music e-learning project i-Maestro which is supported by the EU.

Key Publications

• Weyde, T. (2004) Modeling Rhythmic Motif Structure with Fuzzy Logic and Machine Learning In Music Query: Methods, Models, and User Studies, vol. 13 of Computing in Musicology, CCARH and The MIT Press, Cambridge, Ma., pp. 35-50.
• Weyde, T. (2004a) On the Influence of Pitch on Melodic Segmentation. In: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Music Information Retrieval. Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.
• Weyde, T. und Dalinghaus, K. (2003). Design and Optimization of Neuro-Fuzzy-Based Recognition of Musical Rhythm Patterns. In International Journal of Smart Engineering System Design, 5(2), pp. 67-79, April-June 2003. View an earlier version.
• Gieseking, M. und Weyde, T. (2002). Concepts of the MUSITECH Infrastructure for Internet-Based Interactive Musical Applications. In: Nesi et. al.: Proceedings of the Wedelmusic Conference 2002, Fraunhofer IGD, Darmstadt.
• Weyde, T. (2002). Integrating Segmentation and Similarity in Melodic Analysis. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition 2002, pp 240-243, Sydney.

Office Hours for Students

My office hours for during term time are:

• Tuesdays 16:00-17:00
• Thursdays 16:00-17:00

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