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Last updated 07/08/2025.
Basics
| Name | Axel Marmoret |
| Position | Tenured Assistant Professor |
| axel.marmoret@imt-atlantique.fr | |
| Phone | (+33) 02 29 00 13 06 |
| Address | IMT Atlantique Bretagne-Pays de la Loire, Campus de Brest, Technopôle Brest-Iroise, 29238 Brest cedex 03 |
| Office | K2-220 |
| Summary | A French Audio Signal Processing and AI researcher, and a musician. |
Position
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2023.09 - Present Brest,
Brittany,
FranceAssistant Professor in Artificial Intelligence and Signal Processing
IMT Atlantique. BRAIN team, part of Lab-STICC, UMR CNRS 6285
Permanent position with research and teaching activities.
- Research activity: Audio Signal Processing, Low-rank Factorization, Machine & Deep Learning, and Artificial Intelligence.
- Teaching activity: Signal Processing, Computer Science (Algorithmics, Programming, Environments), Fundamentals of Machine Learning, and Introduction to Artificial Intelligence.
Phd
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2019.10 - 2022.12 Rennes,
Brittany,
FrancePh.D. Candidate
IRISA/Univ. Rennes 1. PANAMA team
"Unsupervised Machine Learning Paradigms for Representation of Music Similarity and Structure"
- Outperformed unsupervised and most supervised State-of-the-Art algorithms in Music Structure Analysis (for Pop music).
- Developed two open-source toolboxes: nn_fac and as_seg (see links in the 'projects' page).
- Manuscript can be downloaded here.
Music
| Drums | |
| 20 years of practice. | |
| Heavily passionated. | |
| Accustomed to hitting anything around, which annoys colleagues. |
| Bass | |
| 5 years of practice. | |
| Really fun, but not a huge fan of music theory. |
| Piano | |
| Beginner. |
Education
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2018 - 2019 Rennes,
Brittany,
France -
2017 - 2017 Montréal,
Canada -
2015 - 2018 Douai,
France -
2014 - 2015 Lorient,
Brittany,
France -
2013 - 2015 Lorient,
Brittany,
France
Fundings
- 2026 / 2029
MusAIc -- Steerable and Interpretable Music Analysis through Hybrid Models.
ANR JCJC
Principal Investigator. Funding for one Ph.D., one 18-months post-doctoral position, and one 6-months internship.
Reviews
| Journals | |
| EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing - 2024 |
| Conferences | |
| ICASSP (IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing) - 2024, 2025 | |
| ISMIR (International Society for Music Information Retrieval) - 2024, 2025 | |
| WASPAA (IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics) - 2025 |
| Funding | |
| ANR (French funding agency) - 2024 |
Industry
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2018.02 - 2018.07 Rennes,
Brittany,
FranceFinal Engineering School Internship
SOPRA STERIA
Worked in the Innovative Lab of the group. Made some PoCs using Augmented Reality, Machine Learning, and a BlockChain, that were probably never used.
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2017.05 - 2017.08 Lorient,
Brittany,
FranceEngineer Assistant Internship
INFOVISA
Focused on web development. Developed a middleware in Java/J2EE between a distributed application and several WebServices, and deployed the solution with documentation.
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2016.05 - 2016.08 Quimper,
Brittany,
FranceTechnician Internship
BLUE SOLUTIONS
Assisted engineers and technicians with machine quality-control and maintenance.
Volunteer
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2023 Rennes,
Brittany,
FrancePresenter (Scientific Vulgarization)
Pint of Science
Des Machines Mélomanes : l'Intelligence Artificielle permet-elle de développer des machines qui comprennent la musique ?
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2019 - 2021 Rennes,
Brittany,
FranceVolunteer or Organizer (2 editions)
Journée Science et Musique
A day of conferences and workshops on the theme of Science and Music.
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2011 - 2013 Ploemeur,
Brittany,
France
Computer-wise
| Programming | |
| Python | |
| Java | |
| SDK Android | |
| HTML5/CSS/SQL/JavaScript | |
| C (notions) |
| Machine and Deep Learning | |
| PyTorch | |
| scikit-learn | |
| Tensorly |
Languages
| French | |
| Mother's tongue |
| English | |
| Bilingual |