Research Projects

Below are some selected academic projects I have worked on. Please refer to my dissertation to see the spark of a lot of this work.

2021

www.facejam.app: Facial Expressions for Musical Expression. Christopher J. Tralie, Parker Fairchild
22nd International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference Late Breaking Demo Session

2020

Exact, parallelizable dynamic time warping alignment with linear memory. Elizabeth Dempsey, Christopher J. Tralie. Proceedings of the 21st Conference of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR 2020). (Virtual)

Periodicity Scoring of Time Series Encodes Dynamical Behavior of the Tumor Suppressor p53. Caroline Moosmüller, Christopher J. Tralie, Mahdi Kooshkbaghi, Zehor Belkhatir, Maryam Pouryahya, José Reyes, Joseph O. Deasy, Allen R. Tannenbaum, Ioannis G. Kevrekidis. 24th International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS 2020).

2019

Hyperparameter Optimization of Topological Features for Machine Learning Applications. Francis Motta, Christopher J. Tralie, et. al. Special Session on Topological Data Analysis in Machine Learning, IEEE ICMLA-2019, Boca Raton, Florida.

Da-TACOS: a dataset for cover song identification and understanding. Furkan Yesiler, Christopher J. Tralie, Albin Correya, Diego F. Silva, Philip Tovstogan, Emilia Gomez, Xavier Serra. 20th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, 2019, Delft, The Netherlands.

Multi-scale Geometric Summaries for Similarity-based Sensor Fusion. Christopher J. Tralie, Paul Bendich, and John Harer. IEEE Aerospace Conference, 2019, Big Sky, Montana.

Twisty Takens: A Geometric Characterization of Good Observations on Dense Trajectories.
Boyan Xu, Christopher J. Tralie, Alice Antia, Michael Lin, Jose A. Perea
Journal of Applied And Computational Topology (JACT) (To Appear, 2019).

"Enhanced Hierarchical Music Structure Annotations via Feature Level Similarity Fusion."Christopher J. Tralie, Brian McFee.
International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, And Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2019, Brighton, UK

2018

Automated Detection of Stereotypical Motor Motions in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder Using Geometric Feature Fusion. Christopher J. Tralie, Matthew S. Goodwin, and Guillermo Sapiro. International Society for Autism Research (INSAR), 2018.

GraphDitty: A Software Suite for Geometric Music Structure Visualization. Christopher J. Tralie
19th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference Late Breaking Demo Session

"Cover Song Synthesis by Analogy."Christopher J. Tralie
19th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, 2018, Paris, France

Topological Eulerian Synthesis of Slow Motion Periodic Videos . Christopher Tralie and Matthew Berger. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, 2018, Athens, Greece.

(Quasi)Periodicity Quantification in Video Data, Using Topology. Christopher J. Tralie and Jose A. Perea. SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences.

2017

Self-Similarity Based Time Warping. Christopher J. Tralie. arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.07513, 2017.

MÖbius Beats: The Twisted Spaces of Sliding Window Audio Novelty Functions with Rhythmic Subdivisions. Christopher J. Tralie and John Harer. 18th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, 2017, Late Breaking Demo Session.

"Early MFCC And HPCP Fusion for Robust Cover Song Identification."Christopher J. Tralie
18th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, 2017, Suzhou, China

Geometric Multimedia Time Series. Christopher J. Tralie. Dissertation, Duke University Department of Electrical And Computer Engineering

2016

High Dimensional Geometry of Sliding Window Embeddings of Periodic Videos. Christopher J. Tralie. 32nd International Symposium on Computation Geometry, Multimedia Session, 2016, Boston, Massachusetts

Geometric Models for Musical Audio Data. Paul Bendich, Ellen Gasparovic, John Harer, Christopher Tralie. 32nd International Symposium on Computation Geometry, Multimedia Session, 2016

2015

"Cover Song Identification with Timbral Shape Sequences." "Christopher J. Tralie, Paul Bendich
16th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, 2015, Malaga, Spain