Research Interests

Chenyu's main research interests comprise:

   - Machine learning applied to music, including but not limited to human-centered music generation.

   - Discovery of repetitive patterns in music.

Education

- Ph.D. in Music2022.10 - Exp. 2026.9

   University of York, United Kingdom. Supervisors Dr. Federico Reuben, and Dr. Tom Collins.


- MSc in Software Engineering 2019.9 - 2022.3

   Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

   Thesis: Research on Vision-and-Language Methods for Images with Scene Text


- BS in Software Engineering 2015.9 - 2019.6

   Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

   Thesis: Lightweight Target Counting Neural Network Model


Publication

Music Structure Analysis

Music Structure Visualisation
The Pendular Graph: Visualising Hierarchical Repetitive Structure in Point-set Representations of the POP909 Music Dataset
C. Gao, T. Collins
Proceedings of the Human-Computer Interaction International Conference, 2023
[Paper] | [Bibtex] [Interface]


Multimodal Machine Learning

Vision and Language
Structured Multimodal Attentions for TextVQA
C. Gao, Q. Zhu, P. Wang, H. Li, Y. Liu, A. V. D. Hengel and Q. Wu
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2021
[Paper] | [Bibtex] [Code]
Chop Chop BERT: Visual Question Answering by Chopping VisualBERT’s Heads
C. Gao, Q. Zhu, P. Wang and Q. Wu
30th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2021
[Paper] | [Bibtex]
Simple is not Easy: A Simple Strong Baseline for TextVQA and TextCaps
Q. Zhu, C. Gao, P. Wang, and Q. Wu
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2021
[Paper] | [Bibtex] | [Code]


Crowd Analysis

Crowd Counting, Localization
MobileCount: An Efficient Encoder-Decoder Framework for Real-Time Crowd Counting
C. Gao, P. Wang, and Y. Gao
Chinese Conference on Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision (PRCV), 2019
Neurocomputing, 2020
[Conferencr Paper] | [Journal Paper] | [Bibtex] | [Code]

ArXiv

Pre-print, Technical Report
C^3 Framework: An Open-source PyTorch Code for Crowd Counting
J. Gao, W. Lin, B. Zhao, D. Wang, C. Gao, and J. Wen
arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.02724, 2019
[Paper] | [Bibtex] | [Code]

Awards

  • The Outstanding Master's Graduate Award of Shaanxi Province, 2022.
  • The Outstanding Master's Graduate Award of Northwestern Polytechnical University, 2022.
  • National Scholarship for Graduate Students, 2020.
  • 1ST Place in the CVPR 2020 TextVQA Challenge
  • The ACM-ICPC Asia Regional Contest Urumqi Site Bronze Medal, 2017.
  • The ACM-ICPC China Invitational Contest Bronze Medal, 2017.
  • The ACM-ICPC Asia Regional Contest Qingdao Site Bronze Medal, 2016.

Academic Activities

Conference Reviewers

  International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR), 2022-2023


Journal Reviewers

  Music & Science


Update: Dec. 2023 by Chenyu Gao