This paper describes the development of a brain computer interface. The system allows the user to control a game character in a 3D virtual environment, as well as control a basic ‘Pong like’ bar in a simple 2D application. The user will have to adapt their thought patterns to be consistent, and to be able to successfully control the game. As the user moves through the game, various methods of b...

Audio time stretching and pitch shifting are operations that all major commercial and/or open source Digital Audio Workstations, DJ Mixing Software and Live Coding Suites offer. These operations allow users to change the duration of audio files while maintaining the pitch and vice-versa. Such operations enable DJs to speed up or slow down songs in order to mix them by aligning the beats. Unfort...

We present two new data sets for automatic evaluation of tempo estimation and key detection algorithms. In contrast to existing collections, both released data sets focus on electronic dance music (EDM). The data sets have been automatically created from user feedback and annotations extracted from web sources. More precisely, we utilize user corrections submitted to an online forum to report w...

This study examined the relationships between reactive strength measures and sprint performance. Ten female sprinters performed bilateral vertical hops and drop jumps (DJs) from 0.3 m and 40 m sprints. Ground contact time, flight time, height jumped and the reactive strength index (RSI) were calculated during hops and drop jumps. Sprint times over 10, 20, 30 and 40 m were also assessed. High po...

Professional music curators and DJs artfully arrange and mix recordings together to create engaging, seamless, and cohesive listening experiences, a craft enjoyed by audiences around the world. The average listener, however, lacks both the time and the skill necessary to create comparable experiences, despite access to same source material. As a result, user-generated listening sessions often l...

In the music world, a mashup is a fusion of two or more pre-recorded songs. The songs are beat-matched, then selectively combined with audio filters and signal addition. Often, the vocals of one song are mixed over the beats, bass, and melody of another. Project Mashbot represents an attempt to automate this process while maintaining the aesthetic appeal found in mash-ups created by skilled hum...

By extracting one or more instruments from one piece of music and mixing them with instruments from another, a professional DJ is able to create a new, ”remixed” music track. As a result, there has been a growing need for instrument-only tracks fueled by amateur DJs wanting to mix their own music. In this paper, we discuss an algorithm for improving upon a previous method of separating instrume...

Counterparty credit risk (CCR), a key driver of the 2007-08 credit crisis, has become one of the main focuses of the major global and U.S. regulatory standards. Financial institutions invest large amounts of resources employing Monte Carlo simulation to measure and price their counterparty credit risk. We develop efficient Monte Carlo CCR frameworks by focusing on the most widely used and regul...