Mark Plumbley

UK ministers to block amendment requiring AI firms to declare use of copyrighted content Government plans to use arcane procedure to strip amendment passed by House of Lords from its data bill

UK ministers to block amendment requiring AI firms to declare use of copyrighted content www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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 Vacancy at the University of Surrey: Research Fellow in Generative Audio AI The University of Surrey is a global community of ideas and people, dedicated to life-changing education and research.We are ambitious and have a bold vision of what we want to achieve - shaping ourse...

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!

Diagram of meta-training procedure for proposed environment-adaptive Meta-SELD

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...

Table showing DCASE Challenge statistics (2013-2023), and figure showing number of publications related to DCASE Challenge Tasks since 2010.

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

Advances in Data Science and AI Conference 2025

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

2025 IEEE ICASSP, April 6-11, Hyderabad, India

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/

Logo: BioDCASE. Challenge launched! We like birds, whales, forests, and data

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

Meet the Researcher - Mark Plumbley — gen ai In the first of a regular series of Q&As with our researcher’s, the University of Surrey’s Mark Plumbley talks about his hopes for the Multi Modal Models working group and his love of sound and music.

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.

gen ai We will help to transform science, industry, the economy and society through developing the next generation of generative AI models.

We preparing our first Hub Newsletter - there is still time to sign up! www.genai.ac.uk#subscribe

Logo: Noise Network+: Engineering a Quieter Future

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 The BBC's James Gallagher investigates the invisible killer all around us.

Noise: The invisible killer in all our lives

Job Vacancy at the University of Surrey: Project Manager (Noise Network Plus) We are seeking an experienced Project Manager to support collaborative projects within the Centre for Vision, Speech, and Signal Processing (CVSSP) and the Surrey Institute for People-Centred Artifici...

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...