On September 2nd, AIRIS LAB from KAIST Graduate School of Culture Technology hosted a three-hour workshop, inviting six researchers from Yamaha corporation’s Research and Development section. This event followed a previous workshop held last year at Yamaha’s headquarters in Japan, and this year, KAIST took on the role of the host, welcoming Yamaha’s researchers.
Three research labs from KAIST CT — AIRIS LAB, MAC LAB, and MuBL LAB — gave presentations during the workshop. Similarly, Yamaha’s R&D researchers presented three of their own research outcomes, each corresponding to their respective research divisions.
AIRIS LAB gave a presentation on the topic “Implementation of Six-degree-of-freedom sound experience in Metaverse: Augmented Reality Room Acoustic Estimator (ARAE) and Aural Heritage Project.” On the other hand, Yamaha shared their findings under the theme “Spatial Acoustics Research at Yamaha – Development of a New Microphone Array.” These presentations covered a wide range of research on spatial acoustics, including both recording and reproduction.
From MAC LAB, the topic “LLM-powered music annotation and retrieval” was presented, while Yamaha presented on “AI for Generating Musical Scores.” Various methods were discussed on how to interpret music information using cutting-edge AI technology.
Finally, from MuBL LAB, the presentation “Enhancing predictive models of music familiarity with EEG: Insights from fans and non-fans of K-pop group” was given, while Yamaha presented “Numerical Simulation for Musical Instruments at Yamaha: Analysis of the Clarinet Incorporating Fluid-Structure Interaction.” These talks provided a wealth of knowledge related to music cognition and musical instrument production.
The workshop concluded with a dinner gathering, attended by all the labs and Yamaha’s researchers, fostering closer future collaboration.