Reactive, human-like systems that support musicians during practice and performance.
AIM is a music technology research group at . Some of our projects are supported by a National Science Foundation grant.
Projects
Active research
Five projects spanning automatic transcription, real-time accompaniment, and embodied performance.
News
Recent events
Workshops and competitions from the lab.
January 01 – April 30, 2025
2025 Transcription Competition
Challenge participants to create the best transcription model for classical music. 17 teams submitted; results published on the leaderboard.
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March 3, 2025
AI for Music — AAAI 2025 Workshop
Discover the latest advancements in AI for music at AAAI 2025. Six invited speakers, ten accepted papers.
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AI for Music — ICME 2025 Workshop
Join us for an exciting workshop where we'll explore the dynamic intersection of artificial intelligence and music. Five invited speakers + technical program committee.
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Where our projects sit in the field
Our projects often span most or all of these areas.
Generative Audio and DSP
How can Companion utilize machine learning and filtering to resynthesize string instrument articulations on-the-fly?
Beat Detection and Tempo Tracking
What are the most effective methods for Companion, Evaluator, and Mus2Vid to follow a musician's playing in reference to a score, and play along to match?
Emotion and Perception
How can Mus2Vid analyze emotion of classical music in real-time and utilize it to generate real-time video accompaniments?
Music Classification / Information Retrieval
What musical features extracted from various media — such as tempo, key, genre, notes — are useful to music performance technology, and how can we extract such features?
Human-Computer Interaction
How can our apps be designed in ways that are human-like and natural for humans to interact with?
User Studies + Deployments
How can we ensure that our users actually utilize and enjoy the apps we develop?
Team
A multidisciplinary group
Our 15 researchers come from engineering, music, science, liberal arts, design, and management.
Outreach
How AIM connects with the community
Vertically Integrated Project
AIM has an associated Vertically Integrated Project, which enables research experiences for Purdue undergraduates.
Learn moreMultidisciplinary Research
Music technology is a field with very multidisciplinary problems and solutions. We draw from Music, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Technology, Art, Design, and Management.
User Studies
AIM actively runs user studies on the tools that are developed to ensure that users can figure out how to use them and enjoy them.
Presentations / Concerts
AIM members have given speeches, presentations, and concerts about and using AIM technology around the world.