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Research

I am no longer a researcher, but it was an important part of my life in my late 20s and early 30s.

My main research interests were:

  • synthesis of bowed string instruments (violin, viola, cello)
  • music education

Theses

  • Graham Percival. Physical Modelling meets Machine Learning: Performing Music with a Virtual String Ensemble. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow, UK, May 2013. [bib, text]
  • Graham Percival. Computer-Assisted Musical Instrument Tutoring with Targeted Exercises. Master's thesis, University of Victoria, Canada, Aug 2008. [bib, text]

Journal Papers

  • Jordan B.L. Smith, Jun Kato, Satoru Fukayama, Graham Percival, and Masataka Goto. The CrossSong Puzzle: Developing a Logic Puzzle for Musical Thinking. Journal of New Music Research, 46(3):213--228, 2017. [bib, text]
  • Graham Percival and George Tzanetakis. Streamlined Tempo Estimation Based on Autocorrelation and Cross-correlation With Pulses. Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, IEEE/ACM Transactions on, 22(12):1765--1776, Dec 2014. [bib, text]

Conference Papers

  • Zhiyan Duan, Chitralekha Gupta, Graham Percival, David Grunberg, and Ye Wang. SECCIMA: Singing and ear training for children with cochlear implants via a mobile application. In Proceedings of the 14th Sound and Music Computing Conference, Espoo, Finland, pages 5--8, 2017. [bib, text]
  • Graham Percival, Satoru Fukayama, and Masataka Goto. Song2Quartet: A System for Generating String Quartet Cover Songs from Polyphonic Audio of Popular Music. In The International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, 2015. [bib, text]
  • Jordan BL Smith, Graham Percival, Jun Kato, Masataka Goto, and Satoru Fukayama. Crosssong puzzle: Generating and unscrambling music mashups with real-time interactivity. In Sound and Music Computing, 2015. [bib, text]
  • G Tzanetakis and G Percival. An Effective, Simple Tempo Estimation Method Based on Self-Similarity and Regularity. In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, pages 241--245, May 2013. [bib, text]
  • Graham Percival, Nicholas Bailey, and George Tzanetakis. Physical Modelling and Supervised Training of a Virtual String Quartet. In ACM Multimedia, pages 103--112, Oct 2013. [bib, text]
  • Yinsheng Zhou, Graham Percival, Xinxi Wang, Ye Wang, and Shengdong Zhao. MOGCLASS: Evaluation of a Collaborative System of Mobile Devices for Classroom Music Education of Young Children. In SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pages 523--532, May 2011. Honorable mention paper award. [bib, text]
  • Graham Percival, Nicholas Bailey, and George Tzanetakis. Physical Modeling meets Machine Learning: Teaching Bow Control to a Virtual Violinist. In Sound and Music Computing, 2011. [bib, text]
  • Yinsheng Zhou, Graham Percival, Xinxi Wang, Ye Wang, and Shengdong Zhao. MOGCLASS: a Collaborative System of Mobile Devices for Classroom Music Education. In ACM Multimedia, pages 671--674, Oct 2010. [bib, text]
  • Yinsheng Zhou, Zhonghua Li, Dillion Tan, Graham Percival, and Ye Wang. Mogfun: musical mobile group for fun. In ACM Multimedia, pages 1005--1006, Oct 2009. [bib, text]
  • Graham Percival, Torsten Anders, and George Tzanetakis. Generating targeted rhythmic exercises for music students with constraint satisfaction programming. In International Computer Music Conference, Belfast, UK, pages 24--29, Aug 2008. [bib, text]
  • Graham Percival, Ye Wang, and George Tzanetakis. Effective use of multimedia for computer-assisted musical instrument tutoring. In ACM International workshop on Educational multimedia and multimedia education, pages 67--76, Sep 2007. [bib, text]
  • Ajay Kapur, Graham Percival, Mathieu Lagrange, and George Tzanetakis. Pedagogical Transcription for Multimodal Sitar Performance. In The International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, pages 351--352, Sep 2007. [bib, text]
  • Matthias Robine, Graham Percival, and Mathieu Lagrange. Analysis of saxophone performance for computer-assisted tutoring. In International Computer Music Conference, volume 2, pages 381--384, Aug 2007. [bib, text]
  • Mathieu Lagrange, Graham Percival, and George Tzanetakis. Adaptive Harmonization and Pitch Correction of Polyphonic Audio using Spectral Clustering. In International Conference on Digital Audio Effects, pages 69--72, Sep 2007. [bib, text]