Publications

Smart Compost Bin for Measurement of Consumer Food Waste

Published in CoFI, 2024

We present the Smart Compost Bin, a novel food waste measurement device. Our low-cost 3D printed compost bin allows household users to gain insights on their food waste and compost habits, using a camera and environmental sensors to automatically classify and quantify food disposals. Using this device, we propose a pilot study to leverage volunteer households to annotate food waste images taken from our device, enabling the development of a robust food waste image segmentation model.

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Learning Affective Responses to Music from Social Media Discourse

Published in Signals and Communications Technology, 2023

Continuing our prior work on music emotion estimation, we develop a large dataset of musically relevant social media discourse and train a BERT-based lanugage model to predict musical valence and arousal, achieving state-of-the-art performance on the task of estimating music emotion.

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Evaluating large-language models for dimensional music emotion prediction from social media discourse

Published in ICNLSP, 2022

We present a preliminary approach for estimating the valence and arousal of a given sample of music by learning listener sentiment from social media conversations.

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Aidan Beery

Publications

Smart Compost Bin for Measurement of Consumer Food Waste

Learning Affective Responses to Music from Social Media Discourse

Evaluating large-language models for dimensional music emotion prediction from social media discourse