Ian Simon
I recently received my Ph.D. from the University of Washington for my work with Steve Seitz on organizing community photo collections using computer vision. You might have also heard of MySong, which I worked on at Microsoft Research and has now been transformed into Songsmith. My other academic work is listed here.
I'm currently a member of David Nister's Augmented Reality team at Microsoft.
I like to make and play with fun things, so if you live in the Seattle area and want to get together and create something cool, I might be up for it, especially if it involves music.
You can reach me at ian@iansimon.org.
Stuff I've Done
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MySong MySong automatically chooses chords to accompany a vocal melody, and is now Songsmith. |
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Scene
Summarization We use the distribution of images on Flickr to automatically select a set of summary views for a scene. |
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Thesis My Ph.D. thesis. You probably don't want to read this, but if you do, here it is. |
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HatBeam This does what Apple's Find My Friends app does, but uses hat icons. |
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LeechBlockList Maintain a list of time-wasting sites to be blocked by the Firefox plugin LeechBlock. |
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Audio Analogies Given an example solo recording and its score, we synthesize audio to play a new input score in the style of the example. |
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Rewind I played keyboards in this Seattle-area '80s cover band for 4 years. |
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Fingrophone Fingrophone is an iPhone app that gives you continuous pitch control, but also makes it easy to play notes from a scale. |
