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Contact Information

Name Michele Buccoli
Professional Title Senior Audio Scientist
Email michele.buccoli@outlook.it

Professional Summary

Senior audio scientist specialized in speech audio signals for low-cost applications

Experience

  • 2019 - present

    Milan, Italy

    Sr Innovation Scientist
    BdSound S.r.l.
    Co-lead the innovation department of BdSound, coordinating the machine learning team, consultancy with customers for DSP expertise, support to academic papers.
    • DSP and ML-based algorithm design
    • mentoring to jr engineerss
    • relationship with academia and customers
    • scouting for new technologies
    • support for technical HR
  • 2016 - 2018

    Milan, Italy

    postdoc researcher
    Politecnico di Milano
    Participation to projects WhoLoDance and InterMusic
    • dance analysis
    • remote music performance
  • 2013 - 2013

    Milan, Italy

    Intern
    ST MicroElectronics
    • internship on the active noise cancellation

Education

  • 2013 - 2016

    Milan, Italy

    PhD
    Politecnico di Milano
    TLC Engineering
    • Music Information Retrieval
    • Machine and Deep Learning
    • low level features analysis
    • musical structural segmentation
    • automatic semantic description
  • 2010 - 2013

    Milan, Italy

    M. Sc. Engineering
    Politecnico di Milano
    Computer Engineering - Sound and Music
  • 2007 - 2010

    Pisa, Italy

    B. Sc. Engineering
    Università di Pisa
    Computer Engineering

Projects

  • WhoLoDance

    part of the Horizon2020 WholoDance, which sought to bridge the gap between traditional dance practice and cutting-edge technology. The project’s primary goal was to digitize and preserve the “intangible cultural heritage” of dance while creating smart, interactive tools for teaching, learning, and choreography.

    • dance motion capture analysis
    • alignment of dance motion capture and video signals
    • design and development of annotation tools for dance sequences
  • Intermusic

    the INTERMUSIC project aimed to create a high-quality online environment for remote music education, specializing in low-latency technology for real-time rehearsals and performances. It was coordinated by the Conservatorio di Musica “Giuseppe Verdi” di Milano in partnership with Politecnico di Milano, the Royal Danish Academy of Music, and the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. The ultimate goal was to integrate blended learning into European higher education to foster international collaboration while reducing travel costs and environmental impact.

    • dance motion capture analysis
    • alignment of dance motion capture and video signals
    • design and development of annotation tools for dance sequences

Publications

  • 2017
    Linking signal and semantic representations of musical content for music information retrieval
    Politecnico di Milano

    A unified framework is proposed to connect low‑level audio signal features with high‑level semantic descriptions, enabling more effective music information retrieval across tasks like structure analysis, bootleg detection, timbre annotation, and natural‑language music search.

  • 2013
    A music search engine based on semantic text-based query
    2013 IEEE 15th International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP)
  • 2014
    Unsupervised feature learning for bootleg detection using deep learning architectures
    2014 IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS)
  • 2015
    A dimensional contextual semantic model for music description and retrieval
    2015 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
  • 2015
    An unsupervised approach to the semantic description of the sound quality of violins
    2015 23rd European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO)
  • 2016
    Unsupervised feature learning for music structural analysis
    2016 24th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO)
  • 2016
    A Higher-Dimensional Expansion of Affective Norms for English Terms for Music Tagging
    Proceedings of the 17th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR)
  • 2017
    Using multi-dimensional correlation for matching and alignment of mocap and video signals
    2017 IEEE 19th International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP)
  • 2018
    Beat tracking using recurrent neural network: a transfer learning approach
    2018 26th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO)
  • 2018
    Investigating networked music performances in pedagogical scenarios for the intermusic project
    2018 23rd Conference of Open Innovations Association (FRUCT)
  • 2018
    Time is not on my side: network latency, presence and performance in remote music interaction
    XXII Colloquio di Informatica Musicale (CIM)
  • 2019
    Automatic playlist generation using Convolutional Neural Networks and Recurrent Neural Networks
    2019 27th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO)
  • 2023
    Real-Time Multichannel Speech Separation and Enhancement Using a Beamspace-Domain-Based Lightweight CNN
    ICASSP 2023 - 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
  • 2024
    An empirical evaluation of in-car acoustic measurements for the sports car scenario
    2024 AES 5th International Conference on Automotive Audio
  • 2024
    Audio speech source separation and enhancement in an automotive scenario using different microphone configurations
    2024 AES 5th International Conference on Automotive Audio
  • 2025
    A Small-Footprint Deep-Learning Solution for Real-Time In-Car Emergency Vehicle Detection
    2025 33rd European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO)
  • 2025
    Effects of automotive microphone frequency response characteristics and noise conditions on speech and ASR quality--an experimental evaluation
    2025 AES International Conference

Languages

Italian : Native speaker
English : Fluent