ESLING Philippe

Senior Lecturer
Institut de recherche en Musicologie IReMus (UMR 8223)

Expertise

Discover the specialized technical skills and disciplinary affiliations of our members, who represent the federated communities of the Arts & Humanities, Science & Engineering, and Medicine within the Sorbonne University Alliance.

Communities
Digital Humanities
Mathematics, Computer Science & Robotics
Skills
Creative AI, Deep learning, Generative models, Human machine interaction, Machine learning, Statistical learning

Activities

Overview the professional milestones, academic responsibilities, and international collaborations that drive our center’s double ambition to excel in both research and education.

Responsibilities

Team director

Awards

AFIM Young researcher award
Best PhD award - University prizes of the general council
Best paper award - ISMIR 2018

Selected publications

Esling et al. - Universal audio synthesizer control with normalizing flows - ISMIR 2019
Bitton, A., Esling, P., Caillon, A., & Fouilleul, M.. Assisted Sound Sample Generation with Musical Conditioning in Adversarial Auto-Encoders - DaFX 2019
Esling et al. - Generative timbre spaces: regularizing variational auto-encoders with perceptual metrics - DaFX 2018
Doras, G., Esling, P., & Peeters, G. On the use of u-net for dominant melody estimation in polyphonic music. In 2019 IEEE International Multilayer Music Representation and Processing (MMRP) (pp. 66-70)
Esling, P. Chemla--Romeu-Santos, A. Bitton, A. Bridging audio analysis, perception and synthesis with perceptually-regularized variational timbre spaces. 19th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, Paris, France, 09/2018. Best presentation award

International collaborations

McGill University, Montreal, Canada
The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Haute Ecole de Musique de Geneve, Suisse

Industrial collaborations

Sony CSL
Ableton
Arturia