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Researcher

Jan Van Balen

  • Research Expertise:Research into algorithms for media retrieval, often with a focus on music. This includes algorithms for media recommendation, identification, and (music) corpus analysis. This research lives on the intersection of computer science, machine learning / AI and the digital humanities. Potential applications include: recommender systems for various cultural (heritage) data, systems for the identification of musical works from audio or scores, the analysis of patterns and variations in music collections. Committed to the development of fair, and accountable and transparent technologies.
  • Keywords:MACHINE LEARNING, MUSIC, RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS, INFORMATION RETRIEVAL, MUSIC INFORMATION RETRIEVAL, Computer science (incl. applied informatics)
  • Disciplines:Image and language processing, Interactive and intelligent systems, Pattern recognition and neural networks, Numerical computation, Audio and speech computing
  • Research techniques:Machine learning, computer science en digital humanities methods.
  • Users of research expertise:Streaming services; GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives and museums) and others interested in cultural data, media companies, e-commerce.