PIERRE BOULEZ (1925–2016)

From Boulez to ballads: Training IRCAM's Score follower

This paper describes our attempt to make the Hidden Markov Model (HMM) score following system developed at Ircam sensible to past experiences in order to obtain better audio to score real-time alignment for musical applications. A new observation modeling based on Gaussian Mixture Models is developed which is trainable using a learning algorithm we call automatic discriminative training. The no...

Pierre Vermersch

It is absurd and without any scientific interest to try to play off DES against EI, as if the question was to know if one method is better than the other in the absolute. All methodological inventions deserve to be tried and tested. But the question is how apposite are they to their object of study. However, Froese and Gould’s article opens a range of issues that are important and interesting. ...

Pierre Aumond

As acoustic propagation, forest fire (Pimont et al., 2006), tree stability (Dupont and Brunet, 2008b) or pollen dispersion (Chamecki et al., 2009), a lot of applications needs an accurate representation of the boundary layer to observe its influence on these phenomena. Then, in order to better represent the dynamics into the surface layer, Large-Eddy Simulations (LES) are carried on using thinn...

Pierre Wallemacq Michel Jadoul

1. Froissart M, Houillier P. Limitations of noncorrected and albumincorrected total calcium concentrations in CKD patients. Nephrol Dial Transplant 2009; 24: 2291–2292 2. Gauci C, Moranne O, Fouqueray B et al. Pitfalls of measuring total blood calcium in patients with CKD. J Am Soc Nephrol 2008; 19: 1592–1598 3. Labriola L, Wallemacq P, Gulbis B et al. The impact of the assay for measuring albu...

Jonathan Goldman Understanding Pierre