Dr. Cory McKay

Faculty: Marianopolis College

Affiliate Researcher: CIRMMT

Principle Designer: jMIR

E-mail: cory.mckay@mail.mcgill.ca

Research Interests

Music Information Retrieval (MIR): automatic music classification, musical feature extraction (from audio, symbolic music, lyrics, images, video and data available on the web), musical similarity measurement, automated audio transcription and optical music recognition
Digital Libraries: music metadata mining and standardized representational formats
Computer Science: machine learning, pattern recognition and data mining
Music Performance: automatic accompaniment systems, analysis of performers’ expressive gestures and guitar-like hyper instruments
Sound Synthesis: physical modeling synthesis
Education: sound recording teaching systems, AI-based music tutors and music visualization software
Music Industry: alternative music monetization strategies
Psychology: the perception of emotion in music and classification theory