Publications

Here is a list of my publications:

Highlights

  • [pdf], [www] Local and Global Scaling Reduce Hubs in Space, Schnitzer D., Flexer A., Schedl M., Widmer G., Journal of Machine Learning Research, 13(Oct):2871-2902, 2012.
  • Method and a system for identifying similar audio tracks, Schnitzer D., US Patent (US 8190663), EP (EP2273384), 2009.

2014

  • Choosing the Metric in High-Dimensional Spaces Based on Hub Analysis, Schnitzer D., Flexer A., Proceedings of the 22nd European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning (ESANN), 2014.
  • A Case for Hubness Removal in High-Dimensional Multimedia Retrieval, Schnitzer D., Flexer A., Tomasev N. , Proceedings of the 36th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR), 2014.
  • [pdf] Location-Aware Music Artist Recommendation, Schedl M., Schnitzer D., Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Multi Media Modeling (MMM 2014), Dublin, Ireland, January 2014.

2013

  • [pdf] The Relation of Hubs to the Doddington Zoo in Speaker Verification, Schnitzer D., Flexer A., Schlueter J., Proceedings of the 21st European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO’2013), September 9-13, Marrakech, Morocco, 2013.
  • [pdf] Using mutual proximity for novelty detection in audio music similarity, Flexer A., Schnitzer D., in Procceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Machine Learning and Music, Prague, Czech Republic, 2013.
  • [pdf] Can Shared Nearest Neighbors Reduce Hubness in High-Dimensional Spaces?, Flexer A., Schnitzer D. , Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on High Dimensional Data Mining (HDM), in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (IEEE ICDM 2013), Dallas, Texas, USA, 2013.
  • [pdf] Hybrid Retrieval Approaches to Geospatial Music
    Recommendation
    , Schedl, M. and Schnitzer, D., Proceedings of the 35th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2013), Dublin, Ireland, 2013.

2012

  • [pdf], [www] Local and Global Scaling Reduce Hubs in Space, Schnitzer D., Flexer A., Schedl M., Widmer G., Journal of Machine Learning Research, 13(Oct):2871-2902, 2012.
  • [pdf] A MIREX meta-analysis of hubness in audio music similarity, Flexer A., Schnitzer D., Schlueter J., Proceedings of the 13th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR’12), Porto, Portugal, October 8th-12th, 2012. Best Paper Award
  • [pdf] A Model for Serendipitous Music Retrieval, Schedl, M., Hauger, D., and Schnitzer, D., Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2012): 2nd International Workshop on Context-awareness in Retrieval and Recommendation (CaRR 2012), Lisbon, Portugal, February 2012.

2011

  • [www] Dealing with the Music of the World – Indexing Content-Based Music Similarity Models for Fast Retrieval in Massive Databases, Schnitzer D., PhD Thesis. Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria, 2011.
  • [pdf] Using Mutual Proximity to Improve Content-Based Audio Similarity, Schnitzer D., Flexer A., Schedl M., Widmer G., Proceedings of the 12th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR’11), Miami, FL, USA, 2011.

2010

  • A Fast Audio Similarity Retrieval Method for Millions of Music Tracks, Schnitzer D., Flexer A., Widmer G., Multimedia Tools and
    Applications, December 2010.
  • Effects of Album and Artist Filters in Audio Similarity Computed for Very Large Music Databases, Flexer A., Schnitzer D., Computer Music Journal, Volume 34, Number 3, pp. 20-28, 2010.
  • [pdf] Islands of Gaussians: The Self Organizing Map and Gaussian Music Similarity Features, Schnitzer D., Flexer A., Widmer G., Gasser M., Proceedings of the 11th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR’10), Utrect, NL, 2010.
  • [pdf] Combining features reduces hubness in audio similarity, Flexer A., Schnitzer D., Gasser M., Pohle T., Proceedings of the 11th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR’10), Utrect, NL, 2010.
  • Limitations of interactive music recommendation based on audio content, Flexer A., Gasser M., Schnitzer D., Proceedings of the 5th Audio Mostly Conference: A Conference on Interaction with Sound, pp. 96-102, 2010.
  • Three Web-based Heuristics to Determine a Person’s or Institution’s Country of Origin, Schedl, M., Seyerlehner, K., Schnitzer, D., Widmer, G., and Schiketanz, C., In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR 2010), Posters and Demos, Geneva, Switzerland, 2010.
  • Hubs and Orphans – an Explorative Approach, Gasser M., Flexer A., Schnitzer D., Proceedings of the 7th Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC’10), Barcelona, Spain, 2010.

2009

  • [pdf] A Filter-and-Refine Indexing Method for Fast Similarity Search in Millions of Music Tracks, Schnitzer D., Flexer A., Widmer G., Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR’09), Kobe, Japan, 2009.
  • [pdf] Augmenting Text-Based Music Retrieval with Audio Similarity, P. Knees, T. Pohle, M. Schedl, D. Schnitzer, K. Seyerlehner, and G. Widmer., Proceedings of the 10th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR’09), Kobe, Japan, 2009.
  • [pdf] Informed Selection of Frames for Music Similarity Computation, Seyerlehner, K. and Pohle, T. and Widmer, G. and Schnitzer, D., Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx-09), Como, Italy, 2009.
  • [pdf] FM4 Soundpark: Audio-based music recommendation in everyday use, Gasser, M. and Schnitzer, D. and Flexer, A. and Widmer, G., Proceedings of the 6th Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC 2009), Porto, Portugal, 2009.
  • Comparing Sounds and the Organisation of their Onsets in Time, 6th Annual Music Information Retrieval eXchange (MIREX’09), Kobe, Japan, 2009.
  • Album and Artist Effects for Audio Similarity at the Scale of the Web, Flexer, A. and Schnitzer, D., Proceedings of the 6th Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC 2009), Porto, Portugal, 2009.
  • On Rhythm and General Music Similarity, T. Pohle, D. Schnitzer, M. Schedl, P. Knees, and G. Widmer, Proceedings of the 10th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR’09), Kobe, Japan, 2009.
  • Browsing Music Recommendation Networks K. Seyerlehner, P. Knees, D. Schnitzer, and G. Widmer, Proceedings of the 10th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR’09), Kobe, Japan, 2009.

2008

  • Playlist Generation using Start and End Songs, Flexer A., Schnitzer D., Gasser M., Widmer G., Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR’08), Philiadelphia, USA, 2008.
  • A document-centered approach to a natural language music search engine, Knees, P. and Pohle, T. and Schedl, M. and Schnitzer, D. and Seyerlehner, K., Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, 2008.
  • A Document-centered Approach to a Natural Language Music Search Engine, P. Knees, T. Pohle, M. Schedl, D. Schnitzer, and K. Seyerlehner, Proceedings of the 30th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR’08), Glasgow, Scotland, UK, March 30-April 3, 2008.

2007

  • [pdf] One-touch access to music on mobile devices, Schnitzer D.,  Pohle T., Knees P., Widmer G., Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM07), 103–109, 2007, ACM New York, NY, USA.
  • From Rhythm Patterns to Perceived Tempo, Seyerlehner K., Widmer G., Schnitzer D., Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR’07), Vienna, Austria, 2007
  • Striving for an Improved Audio Similarity Measure, Pohle T., Schnitzer D. , 4th Annual Music Information Retrieval eXchange (MIREX’07), Vienna, Austria, 2007.
  • [pdf] Mirage – High-Performance Music Similarity Computation and Automatic Playlist Generation, Schnitzer D., Master’s Thesis, Vienna University of Technology, 2007

Older publications

  • [pdf] Brainstorms – Eine Einfuhrung in Computational Neuroscience, Schnitzer D., May 2003, Bachelor’s Thesis (Theory)
  • [pdf] MoC – Master of Celebration, Schnitzer D., May 2003, Bachelor’s Thesis (Praxis)
  • [pdf] Applied IPv6 Security, Schnitzer D., 2002