A full collection of Music Informatic Retrieval (MIR) and AI Music labs. It is forked from ismir.net, but with more up-to-date information.
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| Name | Affiliation | Country/Region | PI | Notes | Research Area |
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| Laboratory of Computational Intelligence | U. of São Paulo and Institute of Mathematics and Computer Sciences | BR | Diego Furtado Silva | Research areas: MIR, Representation Learning, Multimodal approaches. | |
| Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence Group (PRAIG) | U. of Alicante | ES | Jorge Calvo Zaragoza | Optical Music Recognition experts. MuRET tool developers. Research areas: OMR, Audio-to-Score, Multimodal approaches. | |
| Music and Sound Cultures (MaSC) | New York University Abu Dhabi | AE | Carlos Guedes | ||
| Music X Lab | MBZUAI | AE | Gus Xia | Selected pubs: POP909 dataset, PianoTree VAE, Full song generation. | |
| Centre for Systematic Musicology | U. of Graz | AT | Richard Parncutt | ||
| Institute of Computational Perception | Johannes Kepler U., Linz | AT | Gerhard Widmer and Markus Schedl | ||
| Intelligent Music Processing and Machine Learning Group | Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OFAI) | AT | Gerhard Widmer | ||
| Music Information Retrieval Lab | Vienna U. of Technology | AT | Andreas Rauber | ||
| Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Wien | U. of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna | AT | Werner Goebl | ||
| Research about listening lab | James Cook University | AU | Amanda Krause | ||
| Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music, Media and Technology (CIRMMT) | McGill U. | CA | |||
| Distributed Digital Music Archives & Libraries Lab (DDMAL) | McGill U. | CA | Ichiro Fujinaga | ||
| Mistic | University of Victoria | CA | George Tzanetakis | ||
| Metacreation Lab | Simon Fraser University | CA | Philippe Pasquier | ||
| Digital and Cognitive Musicology Lab (DCML) | École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) | CH | Martin Rohrmeier | ||
| Music AI PhD Program | Central Conservatory of Music (CCOM) | CN | Feng Yu | ||
| BLACK BOX | German Research Center for AI (DFKI) | DE | Stephan Baumann | ||
| Gotham Lab | T.U. Dortmund | DE | Mark Gotham | ||
| Institute for Music Informatics and Musicology | U. of Music, Karlsruhe | DE | Thomas Seedorf | ||
| International Audio Laboratories Erlangen | FAU and Fraunhofer IIS, Erlangen | DE | Meinard Müller | Development of audio and multimedia technologies | |
| Semantic Music Technologies | Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology | DE | Hanna Lukashevich | ||
| Special Interest Group on Music Analysis | (N/A) | DE | (N/A) | ||
| Computational Humanities (CH) group | Universität Würzburg | DE | Christof Weiß | ||
| Music Informatics and Cognition Group, CREATE | Aalborg U. | DK | David Meredith | ||
| Application of Information and Communication Technologies Research Group | U. of Málaga | ES | Lorenzo J. Tardón and Isabel Barbancho Perez | ||
| ATIC-amuses | Universidad de Málaga | ES | Lorenzo J. Tardon / Isabel Barbancho | ||
| Instituto Complutense de Ciencias Musicales (ICCMU) | U. Complutense de Madrid | ES | Álvaro Torrente Sánchez-Guisande | ||
| Music Technology Group | U. Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona | ES | Xavier Serra | Specialized in sound and music computing. With more than 50 researchers, the MTG carries out research on topics such as audio signal processing, sound and music description, musical interfaces, sound and music communities and performance modeling among others | |
| 'Algomus' ('Algorithmic Musicology') group | Université de Lille, CRIStAL | FR | Mathieu Giraud | Research lab on computational music analysis, focusing on large-scale analysis of scores | |
| Audio Data Analysis and Signal Processing (ADASP) | Télécom Paris / Institut Polytechnique de Paris | FR | Slim Essid | ||
| Centre d'Études Supérieures de la Renaissance (CESR) | U. de Tours | FR | |||
| Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique / Musique (IRCAM) | Paris | FR | Frank Madlener | ||
| IReMus | Paris | FR | |||
| Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT) | Toulouse | FR | The SAMoVA team focuses its research activities mainly on audiovisual content structuring, analysis and modeling. The MELODI team focuses on natural language processing. | ||
| Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique (LaBRI) and Studio de Création Musical (SCRIME) | Bordeaux | FR | Part of the French CNRS. The first research interest implies music information retrieval for enhancing music recommendations and automatic playlist creation. The second research interest involve creating new ways to play music interactively which is supported in the free and open-source intermedia sequencer i-score. | ||
| Laboratory of Digital Sciences of Nantes (LS2N) | The French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) | FR | Mathieu Lagrange, Vincent Lostanlen | ||
| - | Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) | HK | Qiuqiang Kong | New AP from 2024. Pubs: PANNS, GiantMIDI-Piano. | |
| McDermott Group | School of Computer Science, University of Galway | IE | James McDermott | Generative music, evolutionary algorithms, music information retrieval, traditional music. | |
| Digital Audio Processing Lab | I.I.T. Bombay | IN | Preeti Rao | ||
| Music Informatics Laboratory (LIM), Dept. of Computer Science | U. of Milan | IT | Goffredo Haus | ||
| Media Interaction Group, Information Technology Research Institute (ITRI) | National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba | JPN | Masataka Goto | ||
| Music and Audio Computing Lab | Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) | KOR | Juhan Nam | ||
| Music and Audio Research Group (MARG) | Seoul National U. | KOR | Kyogu Lee | ||
| Multimedia Computing Group | T.U. Delft | NL | Cynthia Liem and Julián Urbano working on music | The MMC Group develops algorithms for enriching, accessing, and searching large quantities of multimedia data. Our work on Music Information Retrieval focuses on search, recommendation, similarity, evaluation and methodological issues. | |
| Utrecht MIR Lab | Utrecht University | NL | Anja Volk and Frans Wiering | ||
| RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion Department of Musicology | U. of Oslo | NO | Anne Danielsen | ||
| UP Digital Signal Processing Laboratory | University of the Philippines (Diliman Campus) | PH | Crisron Rudolf G. Lucas | ||
| MIR Group | University of Coimbra | PRT | Rui Pedro Paiva | ||
| Arts, Culture, Ai Lab | Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) | SE | Bob L. T. Sturm, André Holzapfel | ||
| NUS Sound and Music Computing Lab | National University of Singapore | SG | Ye Wang | ||
| AMAAI Lab | Singapore University of Technology and Design | SG | Dorien Herremans | ||
| Institute of Music Science and Engineering | King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL) | TH | Pitak Thumwarin | ||
| Music and AI Lab | Academia Sinica | TW | Yi-Hsuan Yang | ||
| Music and Culture Technology Lab | Academia Sinica | TW | Su Li | ||
| Centre for Computer Music Research (ICCMR) | U. of Plymouth | UK | Eduardo Miranda and Alexis Kirke | ||
| Centre for Digital Music (C4DM) | Queen Mary, U. of London | UK | Mark Sandler and Simon Dixon | C4DM is a world-leading multidisciplinary research group in the field of music and audio technology. Research ranges from record/replay equipment to the simulation and synthesis of instruments and voices, acoustic spaces, music understanding, delivery and retrieval. With a strong focus on making innovation usable, we are ideally placed to work with industry leaders in forging new business models for the music industry. | |
| MIMA | Sheffield University | UK | Guy Brown | ||
| Centre for Research in New Music (CeReNeM) | U. of Huddersfield | UK | Michael Clarke | ||
| Music Computing and Psychology Lab | University of York | UK | Tom Collins | ||
| Music Informatics Research Group (MIRG) | City U. London | UK | Tillman Weyde | ||
| Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP) | University of Surrey | UK | Wenwu Wang, Mark D. Plumbley | This lab is a multi-interdisciplinary, where parts of researchers work on audio processing. | Audio processing |
| Sound and Music Analysis Group (SoMA) | Birmingham City University | UK | Jason Hockman, Ryan Stables | ||
| Augmented Instruments Lab | Imperial College London | UK | Andrew McPherson | Moving to Imperial from Queen Mary since 2023. | Augmented Instruments |
| - | University of the Arts London | UK | Nick Bryan-Kinns | Moving to UAL from Queen Mary since 2024. | Human-Centred AI and eXplainable AI for the Arts |
| (Centre for) Practice and Research in Science and Music, (PRiSM) | RNCM and U. of Oxford | UK | Emily Howard and Marcus du Sautoy | ||
| Audio Information Research (AIR) Lab | U. Rochester | USA | Zhiyao Duan | ||
| Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities, (CCARH) | Stanford U. | USA | Craig Sapp and Eleanor Selfridge-Field | ||
| Center for Music Technology (GTCMT) | Georgia Tech | USA | Gil Weinberg | ||
| Cognitive and Systematic Musicology Laboratory (CSML) | Ohio State U. | USA | David Huron | ||
| Computer Music Lab | Cargenie Mellon University | USA | Roger B. Dannenberg | ||
| Generative Creativity Lab (G-CLef) | Cargenie Mellon University | USA | Chris Donahue | ||
| Interactive Audio Lab | Northwestern U. | USA | Bryan Pardo | ||
| International Music Information Retrieval Systems Evaluation Laboratory (IMIRSEL), School of Information Sciences | U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) | USA | J. Stephen Downie | ||
| JimiLab | Ithaca College | USA | Doug Turnbull | ||
| MuE: Music + Engineering | U. of Miami | USA | |||
| Music and Entertainment Technology Laboratory (MET-lab) | Expressive and Creative Interaction Technologies (ExCITe) Center, Drexel U., Philadelphia | USA | Youngmoo Kim | Devoted to research in digital media technologies that will shape the future of entertainment. MET-lab's primary research focus encompasses several areas: music information retrieval, music production technology, new musical interfaces, and musical humanoid robotics. The lab also emphasizes K-12 outreach and hosts Summer Music Technology, a one-week experience based educational curriculum for high school students. | |
| Music and Audio Research Laboratory (MARL) | New York U. | USA | Juan Pablo Bello | Doctoral and masters programs in music technology in the heart of New York City. Main research areas include MIR, Immersive Audio, Music Cognition and Interactive Systems | |
| Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) | Stanford University | USA | |||
| Music Engagement Research Initiative (MERI) | Stanford University | USA | Jonathan Berger (PI), Chris | ||
| Music Informatics Group | Georgia Tech School of Music | USA | Alexander Lerch | Research on audio content analysis and machine learning for music as part of the MS and PhD programs in Music Technology at Georgia Tech. | |
| Sound Interaction and Computing (SInC) Lab | New Jersey Institute of Technology | USA | Mark Cartwright | ||
| MIT Music Technology | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | USA | Anna Huang | New phd program from 2024 and ms program from 2025. | |
| COSMAL | University of California San Diego | USA | Shlomo Dubnov | ||
| BergLab | University of California San Diego | USA | Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick | ||
| - | University of California San Diego | USA | Julian McAuley | It is not a MIR-specific lab. | |
| - | University of Michigan | USA | Hao-wen Dong | AP from 2024. Music generation. Selected pubs: MuseGAN. | |
| - | Cornell University | USA | John Thickstun | AP from 2024. Selected pubs: MusicNet, Anticipatory Music Transformer. | |
| Purdue music technology research group | Purdue University | USA |
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