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George Tzanetakis

George Tzanetakis

D-Index & Metrics

Computer Science

D-Index
42
Citations
11634
World Ranking
8193
National Ranking
327

George Tzanetakis publication distribution in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Computer Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where George Tzanetakis sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 219 publications — 53rd percentile

53% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 991 publications or more.

George Tzanetakis D-index placement in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Computer Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where George Tzanetakis sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 42 D-Index — 43rd percentile

43% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 131 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2009 - ACM Senior Member

Overview

George Tzanetakis is affiliated with the University of Victoria in Canada and has contributed extensively to research in computer science, focusing primarily on music and audio processing.

Their body of work covers several areas within the field of computer science, with a particular emphasis on signal processing, computer vision and pattern recognition, cognitive neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and music. The main topics addressed in their research include:

  • Music and Audio Processing
  • Music Technology and Sound Studies
  • Speech Recognition and Synthesis
  • Speech and Audio Processing
  • Tactile and Sensory Interactions
  • Diverse Musicological Studies
  • Neuroscience and Music Perception

Frequent co-authors of George Tzanetakis include Jordie Shier, Kirk McNally, Colin Malloy, Joseph Turian, and Max Henry. These collaborations have resulted in publications across a variety of venues.

The scientist's work has been published in multiple venues, with repeat contributions to:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • CCF Transactions on Networking
  • Journal of the Audio Engineering Society
  • Proceedings of the World Congress on Electrical Engineering and Computer Systems and Science

Notable recent papers include:

  • "HEAR: Holistic Evaluation of Audio Representations," 2022, published in arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "Cooperative abnormal sound event detection in end-edge-cloud orchestrated systems," 2020, published in CCF Transactions on Networking
  • "Curriculum Learning for Imbalanced Classification in Large Vocabulary Automatic Chord Recognition," 2021, published in Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • "Deep Autotuner: a Pitch Correcting Network for Singing Performances," 2020, published in arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "Manifold Learning Methods for Visualization and Browsing of Drum Machine Samples," 2021, published in Journal of the Audio Engineering Society

George Tzanetakis was awarded the ACM Senior Member distinction in 2009.

Best Publications

  • Musical genre classification of audio signals

    G. Tzanetakis;P. Cook

  • MARSYAS: a framework for audio analysis

    George Tzanetakis;Perry Cook

  • Automatic Musical Genre Classification of Audio Signals.

    George Tzanetakis

  • Polyphonic audio matching and alignment for music retrieval

    Ning Hu;R.B. Dannenberg;G. Tzanetakis

  • An experimental comparison of audio tempo induction algorithms

    F. Gouyon;A. Klapuri;S. Dixon;M. Alonso

  • Audio Analysis using the Discrete Wavelet Transform

    George Tzanetakis;Georg Essl;Perry Cook

  • Building and using a scalable display wall system

    K. Li;H. Chen;Y. Chen;D.W. Clark

  • Gesture-Based affective computing on motion capture data

    Asha Kapur;Ajay Kapur;Naznin Virji-Babul;George Tzanetakis

  • Pitch Histograms in Audio and Symbolic Music Information Retrieval

    George Tzanetakis;Andrey Ermolinskyi;Perry Cook

  • Manipulation, analysis and retrieval systems for audio signals

    Perry Cook;George Tzanetakis

  • Multifeature audio segmentation for browsing and annotation

    G. Tzanetakis;P. Cook

  • The MUSART Testbed for Query-by-Humming Evaluation

    Roger B. Dannenberg;William P. Birmingham;George P. Tzanetakis;Colin P. Meek

  • Method and system for analyzing digital audio files

    Rehan M. Khan;George Tzanetakis

  • Factors in automatic musical genre classification of audio signals

    Tao Li;G. Tzanetakis

  • Improving automatic music tag annotation using stacked generalization of probabilistic SVM outputs

    Steven R. Ness;Anthony Theocharis;George Tzanetakis;Luis Gustavo Martins

  • A comparative evaluation of search techniques for query-by-humming using the MUSART testbed

    Roger B. Dannenberg;William P. Birmingham;Bryan Pardo;Ning Hu

  • QUERY-BY-BEAT-BOXING: MUSIC RETRIEVAL FOR THE DJ

    George Tzanetakis;Ajay Kapur;Manj Benning

  • Informedia at TRECVID 2003: Analyzing and Searching Broadcast News Video

    A. Hauptmann;M. Christel;P. Duygulu;C. Huang

  • A comparative evaluation of search techniques for query-by-humming using the MUSART testbed

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  • Sound analysis using MPEG compressed audio

    G. Tzanetakis;F. Cook

  • Pitch Histograms in Audio and Symbolic Music Information Retrieval.

    George Tzanetakis;Andrey Ermolinskiy;Perry R. Cook

Frequent Co-Authors

Perry R. Cook
Perry R. Cook Princeton University
Roger B. Dannenberg
Roger B. Dannenberg Carnegie Mellon University
Tao Li
Tao Li Florida International University
Peter Steenkiste
Peter Steenkiste Carnegie Mellon University
Meinard Müller
Meinard Müller University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Daniela Damian
Daniela Damian University of Victoria
Mitsunori Ogihara
Mitsunori Ogihara University of Miami
Jonathan Foote
Jonathan Foote FX Palo Alto Laboratory
Nobutaka Ono
Nobutaka Ono Tokyo Metropolitan University
Jianping Pan
Jianping Pan University of Victoria

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