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May 2025
CMAI best paper award at EvoMUSART 2025
12 May 2025The 14th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design (EvoMUSART), part of Evostar, took place in Trieste, Italy, between 23 and 25 April 2025. We are pleased to announce that the following paper, authored by CMAI PhD student Keshav Bhandari, received the best paper award! Yin-Yang: Developing Motifs With ... [more]
April 2025
CMAI at ICLR 2025
14 April 2025On 24-28 April, CMAI researchers will participate at the Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2025), taking place in Singapore. ICLR is the premier gathering of professionals dedicated to the advancement of the branch of artificial intelligence called representation learning, but generally referred to as deep learning. CMAI members will ... [more]
Groundbreaking research reveals how the brain turns sound into music
9 April 2025Dr. Iran R. Roman, Lecturer of Artificial Intelligence at the Centre for Multimodal AI and Centre for Human-Centered Computing, and a group of external collaborators have revealed a groundbreaking theory explaining how the brain transforms sound into the human experience of music. Read the full story at: https://www.qmul.... [more]
March 2025
CMAI at ICASSP 2025
24 March 2025On 6-11 April 2025, several CMAI researchers will participate at the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2025). ICASSP is the leading conference in the field of signal processing and the flagship event of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. As in previous years, the Centre for Multimodal AI ... [more]
CMAI researchers pioneer AI that can "hear": a breakthrough in multimodal generative AI
20 March 2025Researchers at the Centre for Multimodal AI have developed a novel approach that enables large language models (LLMs) to "hear" and "understand" sound. Read more at: https://www.qmul.ac.uk/eecs/news-and-events/news/items/eecs-phd-researcher-pioneers-ai-that-can-hear-a-breakthrough-in-multimodal-generative-ai.html [more]
February 2025
How artificial intelligence can make board games better
27 February 2025Board games have always been a playground for AI researchers. With clear rules, defined outcomes, and structured gameplay, they're the perfect testing ground for AI systems. But what happens when game rules have glitches? Enter Diego Perez Liebana and Raluca Gaina, computer scientists at Queen Mary School of Electronic Engineering ... [more]
A Night of Science and Engineering: exploring Tomorrow's World at Queen Mary
Faculty of Science and Engineering
24 February 2025Queen Mary University of London's third annual Night of Science and Engineering brought together leading industry partners, researchers, academics, policymakers, and the public for an evening of discovery, innovation, and collaboration. Held in the historic Octagon venue on 20 Feb, this year's event, themed 'Tomorrow's World', showcased groundbreaking research that is ... [more]