Kia Ng

Kia Ng obtained his PhD in computer science from the University of Leeds, where he is director and cofounder of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Scientific Research in Music (ICSRiM), and senior lecturer in computing and music. Ng’s research links together work in the School of Computing and the School of Music on computer vision, computer music, and AI. Currently, he is the president of the International Association of Interactive Multimedia MUSICNETWORK. Ng is involved in several domains and initiatives relating to 2-D and 3-D imaging including document imaging (printed and handwritten music manuscripts, paper watermark, etc.), gestural interfaces, and interactive multimedia systems, in collaboration with many European and international organisations and individuals in the field. His music via motion (MvM) system, which provides interactive gestural control of musical sound, has been widely featured in the media, including the BBC and Sky TV. Ng has served as general chair and programme committees for many national and international conferences including WEDELMUSIC, AXMEDIS, AISB, and so forth. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a chartered engineer, and a chartered scientist. For more information, visit http://www.kcng.org

Publications

Interactive Multimedia Music Technologies
Interactive Multimedia Music Technologies
Kia Ng, Paolo Nesi. © 2008. 410 pages.
Many multimedia music content owners and distributors are converting their archives of music scores from paper into digital images, and to machine readable symbolic notation in...
Interactive Multimedia MUSICNETWORK: An Introduction
Interactive Multimedia MUSICNETWORK: An Introduction
Kia Ng, Paolo Nesi. © 2008. 11 pages.
The MUSICNETWORK project was co-supported by the European Commission to bring music industry and related research areas into the interactive multimedia era. It represented a...
Optical Music Imaging: Music Document Digitisation, Recognition, Evaluation, and Restoration
Optical Music Imaging: Music Document Digitisation, Recognition, Evaluation, and Restoration
Graham Jones, Bee Ong, Ivan Bruno, Kia NG. © 2008. 30 pages.
This paper presents the applications and practices in the domain of music imaging for musical scores (music sheets and music manuscripts), which include music sheet digitisation...
Optical Music Analysis for Printed Music Score and Handwritten Music Manuscript
Optical Music Analysis for Printed Music Score and Handwritten Music Manuscript
Kia Ng. © 2004. 20 pages.
This chapter describes an optical document imaging system to transform paper-based music scores and manuscripts into machine-readable format and a restoration system to touch-up...