Yoeri Uyttendaele

Yoeri Uyttenaele is a doctoral researcher at ESAT, STADIUS in KU Leuven. His research lies on the interface of Musicology and Artificial Intelligence, specifically Computer Vision and NLP.

As such, his work is closely intertwined with the research of The Alamire Foundation, an international study center with the goal of stimulating, coordinating and conducting academic and practical research on music and the music scene of the Low Countries, from the Middle Ages until 1800. In his research, Uyttendaele develops a range of AI techniques, such as Optical Character Recognition (OCR) methods for document digitization, Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques for music analysis and transcription, and generative AI for image restoration. By using AI to translate and analyse the difficult notation and restore the degraded music documents, we aspire to lower the threshold for musicologists and musicians to discover and perform this wonderful part of our cultural heritage.