This is it, this is my last video lecture of the course on Audio Signal Processing for Music Applications. So, this is my goodbye lecture and the first thing I want to say is, thank you. Thank you for keeping up with the course, with us. And therefore giving a meaning to this experiment. This was the first time we offered an online course like this one. We have learned a lot doing it. And hopefully we will do this again, and we will use all that experience to improve it. So, thank again. And also we need to thank the institutions we come from. The Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Stanford University for giving the institutional support to make it possible. And especially the research groups that we are part of, the music technology group and the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics. So now, in this short lecture, I want to give you some pointers, two places where you can learn more about the topics of the course. I want to mention a few things about research centers, a few things about Masters and PhD programs, also about conferences and about journals. So, about research centers, there are many. This is a field that is quite consolidated by now. And therefore is present in many universities around the world. However, being an interdisciplinary area of activity, every research center might be quite different. It's an activity that is present in different types of departments, different types of universities and therefore, the research centers will have different disciplinary backgrounds and focus, depending on their context, on their faculty, the interests of the faculty that are running the center. So, it's very important to really understand that and to understand the personality of every center before you actually approach or you try to join or to basically learn from one of these research centers. Given that there are so many, I didn't want even to list any of them. There is a partial listing of many centers in this link that I put here, in this smcnetwork.org under resources. You will have a quite long list of centers that are active in the field of sound and music computing, music technology and in general this area of activity. In terms of educational programs, graduate educational programs, it's again the same thing. There are not that many compared with the number of centers that exist given that there are not that many large research centers. There are not that many institution that can offer a program that is focused on these topics. Our two institutions are definitely big enough to offer that. So, at the Pompeu Fabra University we have a Master in Sound and Music Computing. And at Stanford University there is a Master in Music, Science and Technology, clearly, they are different. So, you should look at them at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, we've been in engineering department, and that makes a particular context and therefore the massive reflects that. And Stanford University, the Centre for Computer Research and Musical Acoustics is part of the music department, and that is another type of focus, or at least another type of context that implies a certain interests or certain focus in the educational programs. In terms of the PhD programs, the same, but clearly since PhD programs are not, let's say, they don't have normally a series of lectures or a series of courses. They are just focused on a PhD thesis. They are there are as many PhDs as faculty members that do research in these topics. So, you can do a PhD in these fields in basically most of universities around the world. Again, in our tour at universities being universities that have a large groups in these fields. You can do a PhD that at the same time takes advantage of a large research group which I think is a good thing. But again, there are many places that you can look and again, the important thing is to understand the particular context, the particular department, understand the activity of a particular faculty member and identify things that you are interested in. Okay. And now if we want to talk about conferences, every field has a set of relevant conferences. Places where the researchers and the PhD students. Go to, to basically interact with other researchers to get feedback. It's impossible by yourself staying at home or at a given institution to get a feeling and to really learn about all the state of the art and all what is really going on. Not everything is online so attending conferences is an important part of people involved in advance research of a particular field. Our field has quite a few conferences that there are kind of specialized in our topics. The first one that started was the International Computer Music Conference. It started in the US and that started from a clear musical perspective. So, from the idea of the use of technology for composition. And that still has that main focus even though it has diversified a lot, and nowadays it includes presentations and topics that cover a wide variety of issues related with computer music. Another conference is the Sound and Music Computing Conference. This is a much more recent conference, it started in Europe and it started with a more, I would say more of an engineering sort of emphasis. In Europe, the music conservatories are outside the university therefore at the university, these types of activities are more under the umbrella of engineering department, and the sound and music computing contents reflects a little bit that. It's a good general conference on topics but again, emphasizing the technical presentations and lectures. The next conference is this Conference on Digital Audio Effects. That again is a more recent conference, I would say it's kind of a spin-off of the ICMC or of the SMC in the sense that was created to emphasize a particular aspect of audiotional processing in fact. So, in fact this course is very much reflected in their activities of these conference. So, you look at the proceedings of the conference. You would see a lot of presentations belated with the kind of things we have been talking about. So, that's a very good place to look for advanced presentations and advancements in the field of Audio Signal Processing related to music. And now the very important conference is the Conference on Music Information Retrieval, ISMIR. Which again was a conference created to specialize in the area of Music Information Retrieval in the topics related with music and sound description that we mention in the previous week. So, that's an excellent conference for all the people that are interested in using technology for describing music. Both from the audio and from the signal processing point of view and also more from this other areas that I mention, like the areas of machine learning or the areas of semantic type of analysis. To really capture the whole feel of music information and the description of all this type of data. Then there is another conference the NIME conference, the Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. That's on a different area on the aspect of interaction, which is very important aspect within music technology, but it's not one that we have covered in this course. But for people that are more interested in these interfaces aspect with a clear musical goal, NIME is an excellent conference. And finally, well there are quite a few conferences that are more general that come from societies that are well established and that within them our feel is also part of. For example, the audio engineering society conventions and conferences include most of the time or basically all the time topics related with Audio Signal Processing, with music technology. So, that's a very good source of activity. The AES, in their conferences, also includes the more industrial aspects. So that's also a very interesting aspect of this conference. And then we have the IEEE Conferences. In IEEE, these engineering society includes many conferences that relate or that involve aspects related with Audio Signal Processing, with music technology. Maybe the most focus one is the ICASSP. So, the Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing that has been a very active, it's a huge conference and there is always an important part of that dedicated to Music Information Retrieval topics, Audio Signal Processing topics, etcetera. So, that's a nearing good engineering, general purpose engineering conference that these type of topics are covered. And finally the ACM association, has also, that's another engineering association more computer science focus, has a lot of conferences that relate to these topics. And they are very good places where to learn about this for example, maybe the one that is most related is the ACM Multimedia in which it does not just cover audio but it covers image, video and other type of Multimedia Data Analysis. So, that's a good conference, but you can find quite a few general purposes conference In which now music and audio has a presence and there are interesting things to be learned from. And in terms of journals, that's kind of the same situation. All fields have a certain journals that are the reference journals for that particular community, maybe I would say that our community does not have so many journals compared with some other fields. And I would say that is a lack in that aspect, as least compared with conferences. The oldest journal in our field and very well known is the computer music journal. That's from the 70's and that's a journal and again, emphasize the music aspect of the field so, maybe the traditional computer music view of the field. But, again, nowadays it includes quite a few articles on all areas, the kind of things we have been talking about. Another journal is the Journal of New Music Research that, despite the name, it's also very much focused on music technology. And signs of music types of topics and for example lately Music Information Retrieval Topics are have a strong in presence in that genre, so that a good journal to read, and follow, and to keep up with the feeling. And then the last journals I mention here are from these societies that I mentioned that are more general. But that include topics related with Audio Music Technology. And therefore, again, are good to follow. The Audio Engineering Society has a journal. The Journal of the AES. You can read many papers related to these topics are published. The IEEE Society has quite a few journals, but there is one in particular, different sections on audio, speech, and language processing. That includes always a relevant articles. And finally, the ACM has also some relevant journals. Again, maybe one that is the most, the one most related to what we have been talking about is the transactions on multimedia computing, communications and applications. But again, there are many other journals that might include some relevant articles and it's good to keep an eye on all these activities and all these journals. Okay, to look for these references, the smcnetwork.org website keeps a list of all the journals, their conferences that I have mentioned. So, that's a good way to start looking for specific links. And there is other things there that you might be interested in. The entry, the Wikipedia entry for sound and music computing still is maybe not that comprehensive, but it's a good starting point to get an idea of the general field of sound and music computing and then, look for some specific references. Okay. And that's all, this is really it and I just want to say personal thank you to everyone so, everyone that made this course possible. And maybe I want to give a special thank to Courserra for providing this amazing platform to deliver this type of courses and be able to interact with all of you. So, goodbye to all of you and thank you again.
