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Looking forward to talking about Noise Network Plus at the Institute of Acoustics @ioa-uk.bsky.social London Branch hybrid meeting 6pm-7pm Wednesday 14 May 2025. (Registration for in-person attendance closes 5pm Mon 12 May) More below and at www.ioa.org.uk/civicrm/even...

Presented Noise Network Plus poster at Urban Sound Symposium 2025 urban-sound-symposium.org in Zurich last week (28-30 Apr), with Antonio J Torija Martínez and Charlotte Clark. Poster: zenodo.org/records/1535... @sgraetzer.bsky.social @peoplecentredai.bsky.social @uniofsurrey.bsky.social

JOB OPPORTUNITY: We are recruiting for a Research Fellow to be based at @peoplecentredai.bsky.social. Full details here 👇

Coming up 14 May 2025: 'London Branch hybrid meeting 'Noise Network Plus: A new interdisciplinary network to address noise pollution' presentation by Prof Mark Plumbley, University of Surrey 19:00 - 19:00 AECOM, London #acoustics #sound #noise #vibration www.ioa.org.uk/civicrm/even...

JOB: Research Fellow in Generative Audio AI, with @genaihub.bsky.social Applications from under-represented groups encouraged, including women, people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic groups, and people with disabilities. jobs.surrey.ac.uk/021025 @peoplecentredai.bsky.social

I was happy to present our work, it was a great session and the room was packed!

SPS Journal at #ICASSP2025 today: Apr 11: 2pm-3:30pm SAM-PJ1 (Poster 3G) Selective-Memory Meta-Learning with Environment Representations for Sound Event Localization and Detection Jinbo Hu, Yin Cao, Ming Wu, Qiuqiang Kong, Feiran Yang, P, Jun Yang AAM openresearch.surrey.ac.uk/esploro/outp...

Talk at #ICASSP2025 this pm: Apr 11: 2:30pm-2:45pm A decade of DCASE: Achievements, practices, evaluations and future challenges @annamariamesaros.bsky.social @rserizel.bsky.social Tuomas Virtanen, P AASP-SS6-L7: 50 years of Audio and Acoustic Signal Processing Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2410.04951

Call for abstracts Advances in Data Science and AI 2025, Manchester UK with speakers @lawrennd.bsky.social, @edoardo-ponti.bsky.social, Efstathia Soufleri, Chryssa Zerva, Keeley Crocket, Nirav Ajmeri, Rika Antonova and Yukun Lai @uniofmanchester.bsky.social www.idsai.manchester.ac.uk/connect/even...

Our paper at #ICASSP2025 today: Yi Yuan et al: "Sound-VECaps: Improving Audio Generation With Visual Enhanced Captions" Apr 10, 5:00pm-6:30 pm AASP-P22: Audio Captioning, Retrieval, and Understanding I Preprint/code/dataset/demos: yyua8222.github.io/Sound-VECaps... // @peoplecentredai.bsky.social

Our paper being presented at #ICASSP2025 today: Apr 8: 5:00pm-6:30pm FlowSep: Language-Queried Sound Separation with Rectified Flow Matching Yi Yuan, Xubo Liu, Haohe Liu, Mark D. Plumbley, Wenwu Wang AASP-P4: Audio Source Separation I (Room: Poster 2B) More at: audio-agi.github.io/FlowSep_demo/

Just launched: the BioDCASE challenge! Monitor whales, birds and other animals, through their sounds? We're publishing new datasets, and new evaluations, to help you do so! Please join this new challenge, and please spread the word: biodcase.github.io #bioacoustics #machinelistening #ai4good

Mark Plumbley is part of Gen AI Hub's Multi Modal Models working group. In this Q&A he talks about his research at @uniofsurrey.bsky.social and his interest in music. www.genai.ac.uk/blogs/meet-t... @markplumbley.bsky.social @peoplecentredai.bsky.social

Great to talk to Rosie Niven of the Gen AI Hub (@genaihub.bsky.social) about generative AI for audio, our work in CVSSP and @peoplecentredai.bsky.social at @uniofsurrey.bsky.social, and how AI Hubs are contributing to the UK AI landscape in areas like multimodal generative AI.

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Job: Project Manager (Noise Network Plus) - Still time to apply (Part-time 60%, Closes 23 Mar) Help us to "Engineer a Quieter Future"! jobs.surrey.ac.uk/013025

Noise: The invisible killer in all our lives

I’m #hiring. Great opportunity for a Project Manger to join our new Noise Network Plus. Know anyone who might be interested? jobs.surrey.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...