Shlomo Dubnov () is an American-Israeli computer music researcher and composer. He is a professor in the Music Department and Affiliate Professor in Computer Science and Engineering and a founding faculty of the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute in the

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, where he has been since 2003. He is the Director of the Center for Research in Entertainment and Learning (CREL) at UC San Diego's

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Biography

Born in Ukraine in 1962, Shlomo Dubnov is a researcher and composer. Dubnov's education bridges electrical engineering (at the Technion), computer science (at the Hebrew University), and music (at the Academy of Music and Dance in Jerusalem). Dubnov was familiar with electroacoustic music when he learned about computer music as a field of research during a workshop by Jonathan Berger around 1990. In 1994, he founded the "Israel Computers and Music Forum". Dubnov graduated from

Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance The Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance (), is a school for the music and the performing arts in Jerusalem. It is located on the Givat Ram campus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. History The Jerusalem Conservatory of Music was founded in ...

in composition and holds a PhD from computer science in

Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; ) is an Israeli public university, public research university based in Jerusalem. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Chaim Weizmann in July 1918, the public university officially opened on 1 April 1925. ...

. He is a graduate of the Israel Defence Forces (IDF)

Talpiot program Talpiot (, literally 'turrets' or 'magnificently built') is an Israeli neighborhood in southeastern Jerusalem, established in 1922 by Zionist pioneers. It was built as a garden suburb on land purchased by the Tel Aviv-based Palestine Land Deve ...

. Prior to joining UCSD, he served as a researcher at

IRCAM IRCAM (French: ''Ircam, '', English: Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music) is a French institute dedicated to the research of music and sound, especially in the fields of Avant-garde music, avant garde and Electroacoustic ...

, Paris, and headed the multimedia track for the Department of Communication Systems Engineering at

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) (, ''Universitat Ben-Guriyon baNegev'') is a public university, public research university in Beersheba, Israel. Named after Israeli List of national founders, national founder David Ben-Gurion, the unive ...

. He received fellowships from Natural Science's Distinguished Scientist (Dozor Program),

, 2019, the IdEX Excellence in Research,

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, University of Bordeaux, France, 2016, Heiwa-Nakajima-Zaidan,

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, Japan 2014, Chateaubriand,

, 2014, and Eshkol Fellowship, Ministry of Science, Israel, 1993.

Research

He is best known for his research on musical

timbre In music, timbre (), also known as tone color or tone quality (from psychoacoustics), is the perceived sound of a musical note, sound or tone. Timbre distinguishes sounds according to their source, such as choir voices and musical instrument ...

, Machine improvisation,

Computational creativity Computational creativity (also known as artificial creativity, mechanical creativity, creative computing or creative computation) is a multidisciplinary endeavour that is located at the intersection of the fields of artificial intelligence, cogni ...

and

Stylometry Stylometry is the application of the study of linguistic style, usually to written language. Argamon, Shlomo, Kevin Burns, and Shlomo Dubnov, eds. The structure of style: algorithmic approaches to understanding manner and meaning. Springer Scie ...

of music. He is also known for his contributions to the field of

Computer Audition Computer audition (CA) or machine listening is the general field of study of algorithms and systems for audio interpretation by machines. Since the notion of what it means for a machine to "hear" is very broad and somewhat vague, computer audition ...

by inventing the method of information dynamics and use of

Bispectrum In mathematics, in the area of statistical analysis, the bispectrum is a statistic used to search for nonlinear interactions. Definitions The Fourier transform of the second-order cumulant, i.e., the autocorrelation function, is the traditional po ...

and non-linear extensions of

Spectral flatness Spectral flatness or tonality coefficient, also known as Wiener entropy, is a measure used in digital signal processing to characterize an audio spectrum. Spectral flatness is typically measured in decibels, and provides a way to quantify how mu ...

. His new algorithm, called "Ouch AI", combines Music Latent Diffusion Model (MusicLDM) with Large Language Models to create music out of poetry.

Selected publications

Papers * Dubnov, S., Tishby, N., Cohen, D., (1996), "Polyspectra as measures of sound texture and timbre", ''Journal of New Music Research'' 26 (4), 277–314, Best Paper award, Computer Music Association, 1996 * P Herrera-Boyer, G Peeters, S Dubnov (2003), "Automatic classification of musical instrument sounds", ''Journal of New Music Research'' 32 (1), 3-21 * Cont, A., and Dubnov, S., (2007) "GUIDAGE: A Fast Audio Query Guided Assemblage", ICMC Best Presentation Award, 2007 * Dubnov, S. & Chen, K. & Huang, K., (2022), "Deep Music Information Dynamics", ''Journal of Creative Music Systems'' 1(1), 2022 * Wu, Y., Chen, K., Zhang, T., Hui, Y., Berg-Kirkpatrick, T., Dubnov, S., (2023), "Large-scale contrastive language-audio pretraining (CLAP) with feature fusion and keyword-to-caption augmentation", ICASSP 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing * Dubnov, S., Gokul, V., Assayag, G., (2023), "Switching Machine Improvisation Models by Latent Transfer Entropy Criteria", ''Physical Sciences Forum'', vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 49, 2023. * Chen, K., Wu, Y., Liu, H., Nezhurina, M., Berg-Kirkpatrick, T., Dubnov, S., (2024), "MusicLDM: Enhancing novelty in text-to-music generation using beat-synchronous mixup strategies", ''ICASSP 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing'' Books * * * *

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* {{Authority control Living people University of California, San Diego faculty Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni Year of birth missing (living people) Talpiot program alumni