Brian McFee
Associate Professor of Music Technology and Data Science
Works on music information retrieval and audio machine learning, including the librosa audio analysis library.
Brian McFee's lab at NYU works on music, audio & sound, recommendation, search & web and data management & big data. 19 papers since 2023, 2 at top venues, mostly MICCAI and TASLP. 2 PhD students. 4 alumni. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 5/ year
- at T1 venues
- 11%
- PhD students
- 2
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 4
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 4 papers2026 · T1 1 · collecting
- 5 papers2025 · T1 0
- 4 papers2024 · T1 1
- 6 papers2023 · T1 0
T1 venuesOtherVenues: MICCAI, TASLP
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Music, audio & sound14 papers
- audio4 papers
- Recommendation, search & web0 papers
- Data management & big data0 papers
- music information0 papers
Paper list
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20264 papers
- International conference on acoustics, speech and signal processing (ICASSP).Evaluating compositional structure in audio representations (opens in a new tab)
- Transactions of the International Society for Music Information RetrievalRWC Revisited: Towards a Community‑Driven MIR Corpus (opens in a new tab)
- MICCAI (T1)Self-supervised Learning on Lingual Ultrasound Video Encodes Clinically Meaningful Articulatory Structure of Rhotic Production in Residual Speech Sound Disorder (opens in a new tab)
- TISMIRThe Vocal Eras Tour: Microtiming trends across decades and genres (opens in a new tab)
20255 papers
- Audio Engineering Society (AES) International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Machine LearningA dataset of amateur karaoke singing and audiobook narration (opens in a new tab)
- International conference on acoustics, speech and signal processing (ICASSP).Hybrid Losses for Hierarchical Embedding Learning (opens in a new tab)
- International conference on acoustics, speech and signal processing (ICASSP).Investigating the Sensitivity of Pre-trained Audio Embeddings to Common Effects (opens in a new tab)
- International society for music information retrieval (ISMIR) conference.Lose the Frames: Event-based Metrics for Efficient Music Structure Analysis Evaluations (opens in a new tab)
- International society for music information retrieval (ISMIR) conference.Quantifying Regularity in Music Structure Analysis (opens in a new tab)
20244 papers
- TASLP (T1)Self-Supervised Learning of Multi-level Audio Representations for Music Segmentation (opens in a new tab)
- International conference on acoustics, speech and signal processing (ICASSP).Spatial Scaper: A Library to Simulate and Augment Soundscapes for Sound Event Localization and Detection in Realistic Rooms (opens in a new tab)
- International society for music information retrieval (ISMIR) conference.The Changing Sound of Music: An Exploratory Corpus Study of Vocal Trends Over Time (opens in a new tab)
- International society for music information retrieval (ISMIR) conference.Using Pairwise Link Prediction and Graph Attention Networks for Music Structure Analysis (opens in a new tab)
20236 papers
- International society for music information retrieval (ISMIR) conference.A Repetition-based Triplet Mining Approach for Music Segmentation (opens in a new tab)
- DAFxAutomatic recognition of cascaded guitar effects (opens in a new tab)
- DCASEEfficient Evaluation Algorithms for Sound Event Detection (opens in a new tab)
- DCASEFoley Sound Synthesis at the DCASE 2023 Challenge (opens in a new tab)
- DCASELeveraging Geometrical Acoustic Simulations of Spatial Room Impulse Responses for Improved Sound Event Detection and Localization (opens in a new tab)
- International society for music information retrieval (ISMIR) conference.Transfer Learning and Bias Correction with Pre-trained Audio Embeddings (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went4 listed
Apply to NYUFall 2027
Computer Science PhD (Courant / Tandon)
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