MuSE @ NYU Newsletter

Hi everybody!

a reminder to y'all that tonight from 7pm - 8pm at the 6th floor conference room (35 w. 4th st or zoom) we will be having our first research reading group discussion led by Chuyang Chen, a PhD Student at the Music Audio Research Lab (MARL). the details about the talk is provided below.

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Research: Probing Spatial Structure in Audio Representations

Abstract: Pretrained spatial audio encoders are increasingly used as general-purpose representations for perceptual tasks, yet their spatial encoding capabilities remain poorly understood. We introduce and evaluate the Spatial Audio Representation Learning (SARL) benchmark, a controlled framework for evaluating spatial information in pretrained audio models. SARL probes source-level factors (azimuth, elevation, distance, class) and room-level factors (RT60, volume, shape).

Chuyang Chen — Music and Audio Research Laboratory

Chuyang is a first-year PhD student in Computer Science at NYU, where he works in the Music and Audio Research Lab (MARL). He earned his bachelor’s degree in Music Technology, also from NYU. His research focuses on representation learning for audio, from theoretical perspectives and training frameworks to applications in perception and reasoning. Outside of research, he enjoys playing blues and jazz guitar and is a big Pokémon fan.

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