Rui Pedro Paiva
Assistant Professor
Department of Informatics Engineering
University of Coimbra
Portugal
Biography
Rui Pedro Paiva (born 1973) is Assistant Professor at the Department of Informatics Engineering of the University of Coimbra. He concluded his PhD, MSc and BSc (Licenciatura - 5 years), all in Informatics Engineering at the University of Coimbra, in 2007, 1999 and 1996, respectively. Rui Pedro is a member of the Cognitive and Media Systems and Adaptive Computation research groups at the the centre for Informatics and Systems of the University of Coimbra (CISUC).
Research Interest
His main research interests are in the areas of Music Information Retrieval (MIR) and Medical Informatics. The common research "hat" is the study of signal processing, pattern recognition and machine learning techniques applied to bio and musical signals. He has coordinated and participated in several projects in the above fields. Rui Pedro publishes actively in the main conferences and journals in his areas of research, with a research record of over 50 papers in refereed international journals and conferences. In 2004, his algorithm for melody detection in polyphonic audio won the ISMIR'2004 Audio Description Contest - melody extraction track, the 1st worldwide contest devoted to MIR methods. More recently, in October 2012, Rui Pedro and his PhD student Renato Panda developed an algorithm that performed best in the MIREX 2012 Audio Train/Test: Mood Classification task.
