SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS: REFEREED ARTICLES AND REFEREED LETTERS IN SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS

1. S. Dubnov, Naftali Tishby, Dalia Cohen, "Hearing Beyond The Spectrum", Journal of New Music Research, Vol. 25, 1996.

2. S. Dubnov, Naftali Tishby, Dalia Cohen, "Polyspectra as Measures of Sound Texture and Timbre", Journal of New Music Research, Vol. 26, 1997.

3. D. Cohen and S. Dubnov, "Gestalt Phenomena in Musical Texture", in "Music, Gestalt and Computing", Marc Leman (ed.), series of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer Verlag, 1997.

4. F. Pachet and S. Dubnov, "Surprising Harmonies", International Journal of Computing Anticipatory Systems, Volume 4, 1998.

5. S. Dubnov and N. Tishby, "Gaussianite Non-Linearite des Signaux: Application aux Sons Musicaux", in "Recherches et Applications en Informatique Musicale", Vol. 1, M. Chemillier, F. Pachet ed., Editions HERMES, 1998.

6. S. Dubnov, "Stylistic Randomness: about composing Ntrope Suite", Journal of Organized Sound, Vol. 4, No. 2, 2000.

7. S. Dubnov, R. El-Yaniv, Y. Gdalyahu, E. Schneidman and N. Tishby, "A New Nonparametric Pairwise Clustering Algorithm", Machine Learning Journal, 47, pp.35-61, 2002.

8. S. Dubnov and G. Assayag, "Universal Prediction Applied to Music Generation with Style", in Mathematics and Music, Springer-Verlag, 2002.

9. S. Dubnov, Z. Bar-Joseph, R. El-Yaniv, D. Lischinski and M. Werman , "Synthesizing Sound Textures through Wavelet Tree Learning", IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 22 (4), pp. 38-48, August 2002.

10. S. Dubnov and X. Rodet, "Investigation of Phase Coupling Phenomena in Sustained Portion of Musical Instruments Sound", Journal of Acoustic Society of America, 112 (6), December 2002.

11. P. Herrera-Boyer, G. Peeters, S. Dubnov, "Automatic Classification of Musical Instrument Sounds", Journal of New Music Research 2003, Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 3–21.

12. S. Dubnov, G. Assayag, O. Lartillot, G. Bejerano, "Using Machine-Learning Methods for Musical Style Modeling", IEEE Computers, 36 (10), pp. 73-80, Oct. 2003.

13. J. Tabrikian, S. Dubnov, Y. Dikalov, “Maximum a-posteriori probability pitch tracking in noisy environments using harmonic model”, IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, 12 (1), pp. 76-87, Jan. 2004.

14. S. Dubnov, "Generalization of Spectral Flatness Measure for Non-Gaussian Processes", IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 11 (8), pp. 698 - 701, Aug. 2004.

15. G. Assayag, S. Dubnov, “Using Factor Oracles for Machine Improvisation”, Soft Computing 8, pp. 1432-7643, September 2004.

16. J. Tabrikian, S. Dubnov. E. Fisher, "Generalized Likelihood Ratio Test for Voiced-Unvoiced Decision in Noisy Speech Using the Harmonic Model", IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, Volume 14, Issue 2, March 2006, Page(s): 502 – 510.

17. S. Dubnov, S. McAdams, R. Reynolds, “Structural and Affective Aspects of Music from Statistical Audio Signal Analysis”, to appear in Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Special Issue on Style, 2006.

18. S. Dubnov, “Spectral Anticipations”, to appear in Computer Music Journal, MIT Press, Summer 2006.

19. S.Dubnov, J.Tabrikian, M.Arnon-Targan, " Speech Source Separation in Convolutive Environments Using Space-Time-Frequency Analysis", to appear in EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, 2006.

MUSIC PUBLICATIONS AND ART INSTALLATIONS:

(a) Selected Works internationally published or presented in major events or festivals

1. "127 Digits for piano and MAX program'' presented at Journees d'Informatique Musicale, Caen, France, 1996.

2. Installation "Kinor David'' with Lior Dubnov and Avi Elbaz, presented at ICMC96, Hong-Kong, 1996.

3. Electronic Preludes presented at "The Sound of Israel" festival, Hochschule Der Kuenste, Berlin, May 1998.

4. Installation "Cahiers de Voyages" with Augustine Lenoir, Lior Dubnov and Xavier Rodet, presented at the Biennale for Contemporary Music, Tel-Aviv Museum, March 1998 and at Portes Ouvertes, IRCAM, Centre Pompidou, Paris, June 1998.

5. NTrope Suite for Recorders (algorithmic composition), Biennale of Contemporary Music, Tel-Aviv Museum, 1998.

6. Installation "Reflexion Sons et Lumiere" (Sound and Light Reflections) with Klara Kuchta, presented at the International Symmetry Conference ISIS, Haifa, September 1999.

7. Suite for Organ, in "Organ Music From Israel", Music CD published by MDG Germany, 2001. (available at amazon.com).

8. Memex for solo Violin, presented at CALIT2 inauguration concert, UCSD, 2006

(b) Selected Works presented in major events or festivals in Israel or recorded for National Israeli Radio ("Kol-HaMusica")

1. "Fantasy for Piano", recorded and radio translated at the Jerusalem Artists Week, 1993.

2. "Aiech" for Soprano, Viola, Cello and Cemballo, radio recorded and translated at finals at the Lieberson Competition, 1995.

3. "Recorder Quartet" for Recorder, Violin, Cello and Piano, Commissioned by the Ensemble TexturA, recorded and radio translated at "Etnahta" 1996.

4. "Modes of Discourse" for Midi Wind Player and MAX Interactive Computer System Commissioned by the Jerusalem Institute of Contemporary Music, performed at the Jerusalem Festival, 1996.

5. "Me-Oh" for Voice, ensemble and live electronics, Commissioned by the Tarshish Ensemble, performed at the Jerusalem Festival, 1996.

6. "Suite for Organ", radio translated 2002.

PUBLISHED SCIENTIFIC REPORTS AND TECHNICAL PAPERS

1. S. Shalev, S. Dubnov, "Dynamic Sound Descriptors: Matching between Sound and Higher Level Features", WP 2.1.7.4 CUIDADO Report, Dec. 2001.

2. S. Dubnov, "HOS for instrumental and sound FX matching", WP 2.1.0.9 CUIDADO Report, February 2002.

3. A. Ben-Shalom, S. Dubnov, "ICA and ISA signal analysis", WP 2.1.3.2 CUIDADO Report, March 2002.

4. J. Tabrikian and S. Dubnov, “Unsupervised Speaker Segmentation”, Prepared for Nice Systems under Magneton Project, 2004.

CHAPTERS IN COLLECTIVE VOLUMES - CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

1. S. Dubnov, N. Tishby and D. Cohen, Bispectrum of Musical Sounds: an Auditory Perspective, Proceedings of the X Colloquium on Musical Informatics, Milano, 1993.

2. S. Dubnov, N. Tishby, “Acoustic Spectral Estimation using Higher Order Statistics”, Proceedings of the 12-th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Jerusalem, 1994.

3. S. Dubnov, D. Cohen and N. Wagner, “Uncertainty in Distinguishing between Structure and Ornamentation in Music”, Proceedings of the International Fuzzy Systems Association Conference, Brazil, 1995.

4. S. Dubnov, N. Tishby, “Clustering of Musical Sounds using Polyspectral Distance Measures”, Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, Banff, 1995.

5. S. Dubnov, N. Tishby, “Testing For Gaussianity and Non Linearity In The Sustained Portion Of Musical Sounds”, Proceedings of the Journees Informatique Musicale, May 1996

6. S. Dubnov, N. Tishby and D. Cohen, “Influence Of Frequency Modulating Jitter On Higher Order Moments Of Sound Residual With Applications To Synthesis and Classification”, Proceedings of International Computer Music Conference, Hong-Kong, 1996.

7. S. Dubnov, "Emotion - Is it measurable? ", KANSEI - The Technology of Emotion, AIMI International Workshop, Genova 1997

8. J. B. Rovan, Marcelo M. Wanderley, S. Dubnov and P. Depalle, "Instrumental Gestural Mapping Strategies as Expressivity Determinants in Computer Music Performance", KANSEI - The Technology of Emotion, AIMI International Workshop, Genova, 1997.

9. S. Dubnov and X. Rodet, "Statistical Modeling of Sound Aperiodicities", Proceedings of International Computer Music Conference, Tessaloniki, 1997

10. S. Dubnov and N. Tishby, "Analysis of Sound Textures in Musical and Machine Sounds by means of Higher Order Statistical Features", Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing, Munich, 1997.

11. D. Cohen, S. Dubnov, "Order/Disorder as a Determinant of Musical Style", Proceedings of International Symmetry Conference, Haifa, 1998.

12. S. Dubnov, R. El-Yaniv and G. Assayag, "Universal Classification applied to Musical Sequences", Proceedings of International Computer Music Conference, Michigan, 1998

13. S. Dubnov and X. Rodet, "Timbre Recognition with Combined Stationary and Temporal Features", Proceedings of International Computer Music Conference, Michigan, 1998

14. S. Dubnov and X. Rodet, "Study of Spectro-Temporal Parameters in Musical Performance for Expressive Sound Synthesis", Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, California, 1998

15. Z. Bar-Joseph, D. Lischinski, M. Werman , R. El-Yaniv, S. Dubnov , "Granular Synthesis of Sound Textures using Statistical Learning", Proceedings of International Computer Music Conference, Beijing, 1999.

16. G. Assayag, S. Dubnov, O. Delerue, "Guessing the Composer's Mind: Applying Universal Prediction to Musical Style", Proceedings of International Computer Music Conference, Beijing, 1999.

17. S. Dubnov, "Higher Order Statistical Estimation of Sinusoidality with Applications for Quality Coding of Musical Instruments", Proceedings of the 17th AES International Convention, Florence 1999.

18. S. Dubnov, "HOS Method for Phase Characterization in Sinusoidal Models", Proceedings of IEEE Signal Processing Workshop on Higher Order Statistics, Caesarea 1999.

19. S. Dubnov, G. Assayag, G. Bejerano, O. Lartillot "Automatic modeling of musical style", Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, ICMC 2001, Havana, Cuba.

20. J. Tabrikian, S. Dubnov and Y. Dickalov, "Speech Enhancement by Harmonic Modeling via MAP Pitch Tracking", Proceedings of International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing, 2002

21. S. Shalev, S. Dubnov, Y. Singer, N. Friedman, "Robust Temporal and Spectral Modeling for Query by Melody", Proceedings of SIGIR, 2002.

22. S. Dubnov, "Improved Harmonic+Noise Model for Vocal and Musical Instrument Sounds", Proceedings of 22nd International Conference of Audio Engineering Society, 2002

23. S. Dubnov, "Extracting Sound Objects by Independent Subspace Analysis", Proceedings of 22nd International Conference of Audio Engineering Society, 2002.

24. Ben-Shalom, S. Dubnov, M. Werman, "Improved Low Bitrate Audio Compression Using ICA without Psychoacoustic Modeling", Proceedings of ICASSP 2003.

25. E. Fisher, J. Tabrikian, and S. Dubnov, " Generalized likelihood ratio test for voiced/unvoiced decision using the harmonic plus noise model," (ICASSP '03). 2003 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Volume 1,  6-10 April 2003 Page(s):I-440 - I-443 vol.1

26. Ben-Shalom, S. Dubnov, M. Werman, "Study of Mutual Information in Psychoacoustic Compression with Application for Improved Low Bit-Rate Audio Coding", Proceedings of ICA 2003

27. S. Dubnov, "Non-Gaussian Source-Filter and Independent Components Generalizations of Spectral Flatness Measure", Proceedings of ICA 2003.

28. S. Dubnov, A. Ben-Shalom, "Review of ICA and HOS Methods for Query by Similarity of Natural Sounds and Sound Effects", invited paper for ICA 2003.

29. S. Dubnov, A. Ben-Shalom, “Information Redundancy as a Measure of Mood in Film Music”, IJCAI 2003 Workshop DOING IT WITH STYLE: Computational Approaches to Style Analysis and Synthesis, 2003, Acapulco, Mexico

30. S. Dubnov, J. Tabrikian, M. Arnon-Targan, “A Method for Directionally-Disjoint Source Separation in Convolutive Environment”, Proceedings of International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing, Vol. 5, pp. 489 – 492, May 2004, Montreal, Canada

31. S. Dubnov, S. McAdams, R. Reynolds, “Predicting Human Reactions to Music on the Basis of Similarity Structure and Information Theoretic Measures of the Sound Signal”, AAAI Fall Series Symposium on Style and Meaning in Language, Art, Music and Design, 2004, Washington, D.C

32. Ben-Shalom, S. Dubnov, “Optimal Filtering of an Instrument Sound in a Mixed Recording Using Harmonic Model and Score Alignment”, Proceedings of International Computer Music Conference, November 2004, Miami.

33. S. Dubnov, T. Apel “Audio Segmentation by Singular Value Clustering”, Proceedings of International Computer Music Conference, November 2004, Miami.

34. S. Dubnov, “Spectral Anticipations”, Proceedings of International Computer Music Conference, November 2004, Miami.

35. P. Xiang, S. Dubnov, "Kaaraoke System with Spatial Acoustics Estimation for Vocal or Instrumental Removal", Proceedings of International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), Barcelona, 2006.

36. S. Dubnov, G. Assayag, "Improvisation Planning and Jam Session Design using concepts of Sequence Variation and Flow Experience", in Proceeding of Sound and Music Computing (SMC'05), Salerno, 2005.

37. Deutsch, D., Dooley, K., Dubnov, S., Henthorn, T. and Wurden, A. Pitch circularity produced by varying the amplitudes of odd and even harmonics. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2005, 118, p.1949