Mark Plumbley
markplumbley.bsky.social
Mark Plumbley
@markplumbley.bsky.social
Professor of Signal Processing
Head of Department of Informatics
@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
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UK ministers to block amendment requiring AI firms to declare use of copyrighted content www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
UK ministers to block amendment requiring AI firms to declare use of copyrighted content
Government plans to use arcane procedure to strip amendment passed by House of Lords from its data bill
www.theguardian.com
May 14, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Looking forward to talking about Noise Network Plus at the Institute of Acoustics @ioa-uk.bsky.social London Branch hybrid meeting 6pm-7pm Wednesday 14 May 2025.

(Registration for in-person attendance closes 5pm Mon 12 May)

More below and at www.ioa.org.uk/civicrm/even...
May 9, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Presented Noise Network Plus poster at Urban Sound Symposium 2025 urban-sound-symposium.org in Zurich last week (28-30 Apr), with Antonio J Torija Martínez and Charlotte Clark.

Poster: zenodo.org/records/1535...

@sgraetzer.bsky.social @peoplecentredai.bsky.social @uniofsurrey.bsky.social
May 7, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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JOB OPPORTUNITY: We are recruiting for a Research Fellow to be based at @peoplecentredai.bsky.social. Full details here 👇
April 25, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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Coming up 14 May 2025: 'London Branch hybrid meeting 'Noise Network Plus: A new interdisciplinary network to address noise pollution' presentation by Prof Mark Plumbley, University of Surrey 19:00 - 19:00 AECOM, London #acoustics #sound #noise #vibration www.ioa.org.uk/civicrm/even...
April 16, 2025 at 2:15 PM
JOB: Research Fellow in Generative Audio AI, with @genaihub.bsky.social

Applications from under-represented groups encouraged, including women, people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic groups, and people with disabilities.

jobs.surrey.ac.uk/021025

@peoplecentredai.bsky.social
Job Vacancy at the University of Surrey: Research Fellow in Generative Audio AI
The University of Surrey is a global community of ideas and people, dedicated to life-changing education and research.We are ambitious and have a bold vision of what we want to achieve - shaping ourse...
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April 16, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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I was happy to present our work, it was a great session and the room was packed!
April 11, 2025 at 2:14 PM
SPS Journal at #ICASSP2025 today:
Apr 11: 2pm-3:30pm SAM-PJ1 (Poster 3G)
Selective-Memory Meta-Learning with Environment Representations for Sound Event Localization and Detection
Jinbo Hu, Yin Cao, Ming Wu, Qiuqiang Kong, Feiran Yang, P, Jun Yang
AAM
openresearch.surrey.ac.uk/esploro/outp...
April 11, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Talk at #ICASSP2025 this pm:
Apr 11: 2:30pm-2:45pm
A decade of DCASE: Achievements, practices, evaluations and future challenges
@annamariamesaros.bsky.social @rserizel.bsky.social Tuomas Virtanen, P
AASP-SS6-L7: 50 years of Audio and Acoustic Signal Processing
Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2410.04951
April 11, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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Call for abstracts Advances in Data Science and AI 2025, Manchester UK with speakers @lawrennd.bsky.social, @edoardo-ponti.bsky.social, Efstathia Soufleri, Chryssa Zerva, Keeley Crocket, Nirav Ajmeri, Rika Antonova and Yukun Lai @uniofmanchester.bsky.social www.idsai.manchester.ac.uk/connect/even...
Advances in Data Science and AI Conference 2025
www.idsai.manchester.ac.uk
April 10, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Our paper at #ICASSP2025 today:
Yi Yuan et al: "Sound-VECaps: Improving Audio Generation With Visual Enhanced Captions"
Apr 10, 5:00pm-6:30 pm
AASP-P22: Audio Captioning, Retrieval, and Understanding I
Preprint/code/dataset/demos: yyua8222.github.io/Sound-VECaps...
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April 10, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Our paper being presented at #ICASSP2025 today:
Apr 8: 5:00pm-6:30pm
FlowSep: Language-Queried Sound Separation with Rectified Flow Matching
Yi Yuan, Xubo Liu, Haohe Liu, Mark D. Plumbley, Wenwu Wang
AASP-P4: Audio Source Separation I (Room: Poster 2B)
More at: audio-agi.github.io/FlowSep_demo/
April 8, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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Just launched: the BioDCASE challenge! Monitor whales, birds and other animals, through their sounds? We're publishing new datasets, and new evaluations, to help you do so! Please join this new challenge, and please spread the word: biodcase.github.io #bioacoustics #machinelistening #ai4good
April 2, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Mark Plumbley is part of Gen AI Hub's Multi Modal Models working group. In this Q&A he talks about his research at @uniofsurrey.bsky.social and his interest in music. www.genai.ac.uk/blogs/meet-t... @markplumbley.bsky.social @peoplecentredai.bsky.social
Meet the Researcher - Mark Plumbley — gen ai
In the first of a regular series of Q&As with our researcher’s, the University of Surrey’s Mark Plumbley talks about his hopes for the Multi Modal Models working group and his love of sound and music.
www.genai.ac.uk
April 4, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Great to talk to Rosie Niven of the Gen AI Hub (@genaihub.bsky.social) about generative AI for audio, our work in CVSSP and @peoplecentredai.bsky.social
at @uniofsurrey.bsky.social, and how AI Hubs are contributing to the UK AI landscape in areas like multimodal generative AI.
March 27, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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We preparing our first Hub Newsletter - there is still time to sign up! www.genai.ac.uk#subscribe
gen ai
We will help to transform science, industry, the economy and society through developing the next generation of generative AI models.
www.genai.ac.uk
March 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Job: Project Manager (Noise Network Plus) - Still time to apply (Part-time 60%, Closes 23 Mar)
Help us to "Engineer a Quieter Future"!
jobs.surrey.ac.uk/013025
March 20, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Noise: The invisible killer in all our lives
Noise: The invisible killer in all our lives
The BBC's James Gallagher investigates the invisible killer all around us.
www.bbc.com
March 16, 2025 at 6:37 AM
I’m #hiring. Great opportunity for a Project Manger to join our new Noise Network Plus. Know anyone who might be interested?
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Job Vacancy at the University of Surrey: Project Manager (Noise Network Plus)
We are seeking an experienced Project Manager to support collaborative projects within the Centre for Vision, Speech, and Signal Processing (CVSSP) and the Surrey Institute for People-Centred Artifici...
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March 13, 2025 at 8:40 PM