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The work entitled “Identifying Repeated Patterns in Music Using Sparse Convolutive Non-Negative Matrix Factorization” by MARL researchers Ron J. Weiss and Juan P. Bello was recognized with the Best Paper Award at the 11th Conference of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR-2010) in Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Informal reviews of the paper and its presentation can be found at:
http://mir-in-action.blogspot.com/2010/08/ismir-2010-code.html

http://musicmachinery.com/2010/08/10/identifying-repeated-patterns-in-music/

More details about our research initiatives can be found at: http://marl.smusic.nyu.edu/