Patents & Publications

Academic publishing and patents aren't a priority for me anymore. But for anyone interested, below are a selection of peer-reviewed research I've published and patents I've received for my work in A.I. and signal processing. These mostly apply to audio signals.


“Instrument Activity Detection in Polyphonic Audio Music Using Deep Neural Networks.” Gururani, S. et al. Accepted. 19th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, 2018.


“GNMID14: A Collection of 110 Million Global Music Identification Matches.” Summers C. et al. Proceedings of the 39th International ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. ACM, 2016.


“Temporal Context Identification with User Listening Data.” Summers C. and Popp P. 16th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, 2015.


“Large Scale Discovery of Seasonal Music from User Data.” Summers C. and Popp P. User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization: 23rd International Conference, UMAP 2015, Extended Proceedings. Springer, 2015.


“Characterizing Audio Using Transchromagrams.” Summers C. 2017. U.S. Patent #10,147,407, granted Nov 2018.


“Machine-Led Mood Change.” Vartakavi A. et al. 2016. U.S. Patent #9,843,836, granted October 2017.


“Generating a video presentation to accompany audio.” Harron W. and Summers C. 2018. U.S. Patent Application US US20180286458A1, filed Oct 2018. Patent Pending.


“Adaptive Volume Adjustment of Audio Playback Device.” Summers C. et al. 2018. U.S. Patent Application US 62/728,677, filed Oct 2018. Patent Pending.


"Methods and apparatus for audio equalization." Renner J. et al. U.S. Patent US10998872B2, granted May 2021.


“Model-based media classification service using sensed media noise characteristics.” Cramer J. et al. U.S. Patent US20170193097A1, granted June 2020.


" Methods and apparatus for playback using pre-processed profile information and personalization." Coover R. et al. U.S. Patent US20200133624A1, Pending.


“Responding to remote media classification queries using classifier models and context parameters.” Cremer M. et al. U.S. Patent US20170193362A1, granted January 2021.


"Methods and apparatus for audio equalization based on variant selection." Coover, R. et al. U.S. Patent US20220329941A1, Pending.


"Methods and apparatus to adjust audio playback settings based on analysis of audio characteristics." Coover R. et al. U.S. Patent US11218125B2, granted January 2022.


"Methods and apparatus to adjust audio playback settings." Coover R. et al. U.S. Patent US11223340B2, granted January 2022.


"Methods and apparatus for dynamic volume adjustment via audio classification." Cremer M. et al. U.S. Patent US11086591B2, granted August 2021.