Discovering Non-trivial Repeating Patterns in Music Data
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 311–325, 2001
Research
Music Information Retrieval
Repeating-pattern and theme discovery in music databases, query-by-segment retrieval, matching and clustering of MusicXML and polyphonic music, playlist generation, social tagging, and visualization of musical structure.
Key papers
Designing a Graph-based Framework to Support a Multi-modal Approach for Music Information Retrieval
Multimedia Tools and Applications, Vol. 74, No. 15, pp. 5401–5427, 2015
Automatic Playlist Generation by Applying Tabu Search
International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics, Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 553–568, 2014
Projects
- 2011 Data Mining: Music Style Analysis on Mobile Devices
- 2011 Social Tagging for Music
- 2010 Advanced Clustering Techniques for Music Objects
- 2008 Cross-Modal Feature Extraction, Recommendation and Visualization of Music Objects
- 2008 Community-Based Playlist Generation
- 2007 Visualizing Structural Features of Music
Supervised theses
- 2014 A study on multi-modal music graph (何邱元, M.S.)
- 2012 Social tagging for music objects (黃建彰, M.S.)
- 2010 VisMusic: Music visualization with interactive browsing (簡維萱, M.S.)
- 2009 Strategy-based personal music channel service (蘇郁詠, M.S.)
- 2009 Automatic playlist generation by applying tabu search (賴雅昭, M.S.)
Music Emotion & AI Generation
Music emotion recognition from EEG and deep learning, music transition generation with transformers and genetic algorithms, full-page piano score recognition, and singing-voice restoration for live concert recordings.
Key papers
Generating Music Transition by Using a Transformer-based Model
Electronics, Vol. 10, No. 18, 2276, 2021
Affective content analysis of music emotion through EEG
Multimedia Systems, Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 195–210, 2018
Full-scale piano score recognition
Applied Sciences, Vol. 15, No. 5, 2857, 2025
Projects
- 2025 Singing Voice Restoration for Live Concert Recordings
- 2024 Recognition of Classical Music Scores
- 2022 Advanced Study on Music Segment Generation
- 2021 Constructing Music Transition Segments
- 2019 An Assistive Soundtrack Generation System Based on Video Composition
- 2017 A Cross-Modal Music Emotion Benchmark Dataset and Advanced Analysis Techniques
Supervised theses
- 2025 錄音修復——現場演唱會之歌聲修復 (錢姵文, M.S.)
- 2024 Optical music recognition for full-page piano sheet music using YOLOv8 and CRNN (張翔奕, M.S.)
- 2024 Advancements in complex source separation and medical informatics with deep learning (沈安楠, Ph.D.)
- 2023 Music segment matching by using bipartite graph (吳聲泫, M.S.)
- 2022 Generating a fill-in music by using genetic algorithms (許高祥, M.S.)
Medical Informatics
Breast-cancer risk and recurrence prediction, ICD coding, medical image measurement, operating-room time estimation, healthcare rating websites, and assistive technology such as attention assessment and VR training.
Key papers
Applying a Deep Learning Model for Total Kidney Volume Measurement in Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease
Bioengineering, Vol. 11, No. 10, 963, 2024
CSFINet-Based Multimodal MRI Image Segmentation and Survival Prediction
Diagnostics, Vol. 16, No. 19, 3210, 2026
Special Issue on Digital Innovations in Healthcare
Applied Sciences, Vol. 16, No. 5, 2285 (Editorial), 2026
Projects
- 2021 Text Mining of Patients' Narrative Experiences in Online Healthcare ReviewsCo-PI
- 2020 A User-Experience-Oriented Healthcare Rating Website: Construction, Evaluation, Review Analysis and ValidationCo-PI
- 2019 From Official Quality Disclosure to Online Public Ratings: Perception, Use and Feedback Behavior toward Physician and Hospital RatingsCo-PI
- 2019 Building the Hospital Quality Rating Website for the Ministry of Health and Welfare
- 2018 Building the FJU Healthcare Rating Website
Supervised theses
- 2026 基於CSFINet 多模態MRI 影像分割與生存預測 (余培郁, M.S.)
- 2025 基於商用AMR的醫療運送系統之應用與通訊架構設計 (吳明倫, M.S.)
- 2025 深度學習於核磁共振攝護腺影像體積計算之應用 (曾建桐, M.S.)
- 2024 高光譜影像技術中基於偵測方法與深度學習之血管通路分割與評估的比較 (張屹琇, M.S.)
- 2024 X光影像脊椎椎骨自動分割及基於結合生物力學特徵和放射組學的機器學習方法用於繼發性骨折預測 (游喻瑄, M.S.)
Data Science
Sequence clustering, query expansion, mining of gene microarray, financial and telecom data, and data analysis for language and education, including Atayal preservation, Southern Min dialect clustering, language distance, and GPT versus human essay scoring.
Key papers
Comparing GPT and human raters in essay assessment: Variability, bias, and the potential of LLM-based scoring
Computers and Education Open, Vol. 10, 100341, 2026
A social network analysis on the danmaku of English-learning programs
Applied Sciences, Vol. 15, No. 4, 1948, 2025
Calculating the Distance between Languages with Deep Learning
Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, Vol. 88, Part B, 105686, 2024
Projects
- 2014 A Big-Data and Knowledge-Base Driven Assistant for Writing, Translation and EditingCo-PI
- 2009 A Multimedia Data Management Platform
- 2003 BioDB: An Integrated System of Gene Microarray Databases and Analysis Tools
- 2002 Prospective Research Program: Data Mining Algorithms for Gene Microarray Analysis
Supervised theses
- 2026 賽考利克泰雅語機器翻譯研究：mBART 與大型語言模型之比較分析 (王怡婷, M.S.)
- 2026 基於三元閉包理論之詐欺共犯網路識別：結合大型語言模型與圖形資料庫 (蕭力綸, M.S.)
- 2025 基於OpenOCR框架之中文書法字辨識系統 (卓子揚, M.S.)
- 2025 Transformer 架構應用於泰雅語之語音合成與辨識系統 (李偉源, M.S.)
- 2024 Assessing English writing: a comparative analysis of native and non-native raters versus GPT-based automated essay scoring systems (吳香凝, M.S.)