Music Similarity and Retrieval

Peter Knees holds a doctorate degree in computer science and is currently assistant professor of the Department of Computational Perception of the Johannes Kepler University Linz in Austria. For over a decade, he has been an active member of the music information retrieval research community, branching out to the related areas of multimedia, text IR, recommender systems, and digital media arts. Markus Schedl is an associate professor of the Johannes Kepler University Linz / Department of Computational Perception. His main research interests include music and multimedia information retrieval, web and social media mining, and recommender systems. In addition to regularly publishing in and offering scientific services to top-tier conferences and journals of these fields, he is associate editor of the Springer International Journal of Multimedia Information Retrieval. He is also a keen lecturer and taught classes at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona, QueenMary University London, and Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan Stockholm, among others.