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Information Systems and Applied Computer Sciences

Chair of Computational Humanities

  1.  University of bamberg
  2. Faculties
  3. Information Systems and Applied Computer Sciences
  4. Subject groups
  5. Applied Computer Science
  6. Chair of Computational Humanities
  7. Team
  8. Prof. Dr. Jakob Abeßer

Prof. Dr. Jakob Abeßer

Contakt

E-Mail: jakob.abesser(at)uni-bamberg.de

Address: An der Weberei 5, 96047 Bamberg

Room: WE 5/04.113

Tel.: +49 951 863 3114

Office Hours:

During the semester: Wednesdays, 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. in WE5/04.113 (Email registration required)

Outside the semester: by appointment

Web:https://jakobabesser.github.io/ 

 

Curriculum Vitae

Jakob Abeßer has been a professor of Computational Humanities at Otto Friedrich University of Bamberg since September 2025. He received his diploma in computer engineering from the Technical University of Ilmenau in 2008 and earned his doctorate (Dr.-Ing.) in media technology there in 2014. In 2010, he was a visiting scholar at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland. From 2012 to 2017, he worked as a research assistant on the Jazzomat project at the Franz Liszt University of Music in Weimar. He has been with the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology (IDMT) since 2008, where he was appointed Senior Scientist in 2021. As part of his ongoing habilitation, he served as a postdoc from 2021 to 2025 in the Semantic Audio Processing Group at the International Audio Laboratories in Erlangen.

His research interests include AI-supported audio and music processing and their application in the field of digital humanities.

The main application areas of his research are music information retrieval, detection and classification of acoustic scenes and events (DCASE), soundscape research, bioacoustics and ecoacoustics, and computational auditory scene analysis (CASA).

Memberships in professional associations, as well as editorial and reviewer activities

Member of the following professional associations:

  • International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR)
  • European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP)
  • German Acoustical Society (DEGA)
  • Internet of Sounds Research Network (ISN)
  • German Association of University Professors and Lecturers (DHV)

Member of the editorial board of the EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing (since 2022) and guest editor of a special issue titled “Recent advances in computational sound scene analysis” (2021–2022).

Regular peer review activities for scientific conferences (ICASSP, ISMIR, ICMC, DAFx, DCASE, IS2) and academic journals (IEEE/ACM TASLP, EURASIP JASMP, JASA Express Letters, Basic and Applied Ecology)

 

Ausgewählte Forschungsprojekte

Jakob Abeßer is or has been involved in the following research projects, among others, that are relevant to the Computational Humanities professorship.

  • ISAD 2: Informed Sound Activity Detection in Music and Audio Recordings (DFG 2022-2024)
  • NeuroSensEar: Neumorphic acoustic sensor technology for high-performance hearing aids of tomorrow (Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung, 2023-2028)
  • BioMonitor4CAP: Advanced biodiversity monitoring for results-based and effective agricultural policy and transformation (EU HORIZON-CL6 2022-2026)
  • ISAD: Informed Sound Activity Detection in Music Recordings (DFG 2018-2020)
  • Stadtlärm: Development of a Decision Support and Noise Monitoring System for Urban Noise Control Management Tasks (BMWi: 2016-2018)
  • Jazzomat: Melodic and Rhythmic Structure of Jazz Improvisations. Computer-Based Music Analysis of Monophonic Jazz Solos (DFG, 2012-2017)
  • SyncGlobal: Global music search applied to crossmodal synchronization with video content (BMBF, 2011-2013)
  • Kopra-M: Development and Empirical Validation of a Model of Practical Music Competencies (DFG, 2010-2013)
  • GlobalMusic2One: Adaptive, Hybrid Search Technologies for Global Music Collections (BMBF, 2008-2010)