We open the (Metrika)Box

After months in the making, instead of keeping the information locked away like in a mystery box, we’ve finally opened it! Our lab is proud to share with you the distilled essence of our work: “MetrikaBox: An open framework for experimenting with audio classification”. The title says it all—no further notes needed.

With this publication, Jorge Perianez-Pascual’s PhD journey reaches a turning point, as it brings together years of research in a single paper. As described there, MetrikaBox’s impact is significant: it has supported the development of many papers and experiments, and it lies at the core of MetrikaMedia, a UEx spin-off company that defines itself as a SaaS solution for multimedia content measurement. And now, it’s available for everyone to explore! What will you do with it? Read the paper, play with the code—and don’t forget to tell us about it!

MetrikaBox is one of the main outcomes of musicgenia, a project funded by Grant CPP2021-008491 from MICIU/AEI/10.13039/50100011033 and by the European Union through NextGenerationEU/PRTR. The goal of musicgenia is to develop a cloud-based platform that provides AI-generated production music as a service for content creators and media, both online (live music generation) and offline (pre-recorded music generation). The platform brings clear benefits: (1) royalty-free music, (2) fully original compositions, (3) an easy way to find music that fits your content, and (4) flexible streaming options, where you pay per second instead of per song.