Julia Wilkins 👩‍💻 🔊

CV | Updates | Publications | Outreach | Life

Hello! I am currently a Computer Science PhD student at New York University. I work in the Music and Audio Research Laboratory and am advised by Juan Pablo Bello and Magdalena Fuentes. My current research interests lie in multimodal representation learning with audio-visual data, machine listening with limited labeled data, and creating new datasets in these spaces in creative ways.

Prior to joining NYU, I was a Data Scientist/Engineer at Sonos in Seattle. I completed my undergraduate degree in Computer Science and Music Technology at Northwestern University in 2018, and have Prof. Bryan Pardo and the Interactive Audio Lab to thank for fueling my interest in music information retrieval research at an early stage.

Updates

[September 2023] My paper in collaboration with Bosch Research was accepted to the DCASE 2023 Workshop!
[June 2023] My paper in collaboration with Adobe research was accepted to WASPAA 2023! Check out our exciting project website here!
[May 2023] I’m looking forward to returning to Adobe Research in San Francisco this summer!
[May 2022] I’ll be joining the audio team at Adobe Research this summer working on on multimodal machine learning with Justin Salamon and Oriol Nieto.

Publications

Bridging High-Quality Audio and Video via Language for Sound Effects Retrieval from Visual Queries
Julia Wilkins, Justin Salamon, Magdalena Fuentes, Juan Pablo Bello, Oriol Nieto. IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA), 2023.
[📄 Paper] [💻 Website]
Two vs. Four-Channel Sound Event Localization and Detection
Julia Wilkins, Magdalena Fuentes, Luca Bondi, Shabnam Ghaffarzadegan, Ali Abavisani, Juan Pablo Bello. Workshop on Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE), 2023.
Urban sound & sight: Dataset and benchmark for audio-visual urban scene understanding
Magdalena Fuentes, Bea Steers, Pablo Zinemanas, Martín Rocamora, Luca Bondi, Julia Wilkins, Qianyi Shi, Yao Hou, Samarjit Das, Xavier Serra, Juan Pablo Bello IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2022.
[📄 Paper] [💻 Dataset]
VocalSet: A Singing Voice Dataset
Julia Wilkins, Prem Seetharaman, Alison Wahl, Bryan Pardo. International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), 2018.
[📄 Paper] [💻 Dataset]

Please refer to my Google Scholar for more information.

Outreach

Volunteer Work

From 2019-2021, I was a volunteer teacher with Microsoft TEALS. I led academic year-long remote introductory Python courses at rural Washington high schools while working at Sonos, and hope to do more of this in the future!
I’m passionate about animal welfare and finding homes for dogs in urban environments. In New York, I’ve worked with the NYC ACC. Previously, I volunteered for 2 years at the Seattle Animal Shelter, and before then I was at the Evanston Animal Shelter.

Academic Service

ICASSP 2024, reviewer
DCASE 2023 Workshop, reviewer
WASPAA 2023, reviewer
ICASSP 2023, reviewer
ICASSP 2022, reviewer
TISMIR 2022, reviewer

Life

Outside of research and working with animals, I enjoy rock climbing, running, cycling, exploring NYC coffee shops, and spending time with my geckos!