International Audio Laboratories Erlangen

Welcome to the International Audio Laboratories Erlangen

The International Audio Laboratories Erlangen (AudioLabs) are a joint institution of Fraunhofer IIS and Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU). The AudioLabs were founded in 2010 and are unique worldwide in both its mission and international approach: A team of globally-renowned scientists is working to shape the future of audio and multimedia technologies in research areas such as audio coding, audio signal analysis and perceptual spatial audio signal processing.

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Highlight of Current Research

Piano Concerto Accompaniment Creation

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Practicing and performing piano concertos is an essential aspect of a pianist’s education and professional journey. However, only first-class pianists have the opportunity to actually perform with an orchestra. Addressing the lack of orchestral accompaniments for pianists of any level was a central motivation for Yigitcan Özer's PhD thesis. The vision goes as follows: a musician performs the solo part of a piano concerto on their own, selects their favorite (commercial) recording of the concerto, removes the original piano playing from this recording, and finally mixes the orchestra part with their own playing, adapting it to their own interpretation of the piece, for example in terms of tempo and dynamics. While research often focuses on specific sub-problems of such a motivating example, like source separation or music alignment techniques, three researchers at AudioLabs now gathered to try the whole process.

The result of this case study on piano accompaniment creation can be listened to on this website.

Highlight of Current Education

The AudioLabs professors offer lectures in different research areas in which they share their expertise. As part of our education activities, we create interactive and multimodal lecture material. Check out an example video on time-frequency representations:

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