Patrick Flandrin is a physicist and signal-processing researcher whose name I first encountered as co-author (with François Auger) of a 1995 IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing paper called "Improving the Readability of Time-Frequency and Time-Scale Representations by the Reassignment Method". This crunchy publication (21 pages, dozens of equations and figures) took a pleasing idea —… Continue reading Note on “Explorations in Time-Frequency Analysis” by Patrick Flandrin
Category: Academics
Chordino troubles
On September the 9th, I released a v1.0 build of the Chordino and NNLS Chroma Vamp plugin. This plugin analyses audio recordings of music and calculates some harmonic features, including an estimated chord transcription. When used with Sonic Visualiser, Chordino is potentially very useful for anyone who likes to play along with songs, as well… Continue reading Chordino troubles
A release! Tony v1.0
Just a few days after my last post, I did finally manage to finish packaging the release of Tony v1.0. This followed a two-week blitz of fixing, tidying, arguing, etc., with the instigator of the Tony project, my colleague Matthias Mauch. We're pretty happy about the results. Tony is a program for pitch and note… Continue reading A release! Tony v1.0
Undergraduate programming languages
I read two quite different articles about programming in academia today. I don't know Yossi Kreinin, and when his piece Why bad scientific code beats code following "best practices" appeared on the Hacker News front page, I guessed that I probably wouldn't agree with it. I'm a programmer working in academia who has spent some… Continue reading Undergraduate programming languages
Can you develop research software on an iPad?
I've just written up a blog article for the Software Sustainability Institute about research software development in a "post-PC" world. (Also available on my project's own site.) Apart from using the terms "post-PC", "touch tablet", "app store", and "cloud" a disgracefully large number of times, this article sets out a problem that's been puzzling me… Continue reading Can you develop research software on an iPad?
SoundSoftware 2012 Workshop
Yesterday the SoundSoftware project, which I help to run, hosted the SoundSoftware 2012 Workshop at Queen Mary. This was a one-day workshop about working practices for researchers developing software and experiences they have had in software work, with an eye to subjects of interest to audio and music researchers. You can read about the workshop… Continue reading SoundSoftware 2012 Workshop
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