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ISMIR 2012 Call for Participation
13th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference
http://ismir2012.ismir.net
8th and 12th of October 2012
Porto, Portugal
(organised by INESC Porto, in partnership with the TNSJ in Porto)
The annual Conference of the International Society for Music Information
Retrieval (ISMIR) is the world's leading research forum on processing,
searching, organizing and accessing music-related data. The revolution
in music distribution and storage brought about by digital technology
has fueled tremendous research activities and interests in academia as
well as in industry. The ISMIR Conference reflects this rapid
development by providing a meeting place for the discussion of
MIR-related research, developments, methods, tools and experimental
results. Its main goal is to foster multidisciplinary exchange by
bringing together researchers and developers, educators and librarians,
as well as students and professional users.
ISMIR 2012 will feature
introductory and in-depth tutorials
oral and poster presentations of research papers
invited talks reflecting the true interdisciplinary nature of MIR research
a late-break/demo session
a music programme
-----PAPERS-----
ISMIR 2012 welcomes paper submissions for oral or poster presentation in
the (non-exclusive) areas of:
content-based querying and retrieval
database systems, indexing and query
fingerprinting and digital rights management
music transcription and annotation
music signal processing
sound source separation in music signals
score following, audio alignment and music synchronization
optical music recognition
melody and motives
rhythm, beat, tempo and form
harmony, chords and tonality
timbre, instrumentation and voice
performance analysis
modification and transformation of music data
computational musicology
music perception and cognition
emotion and aesthetics
applications of MIR to the performing arts and multimedia
automatic classification
genre, style and mood analysis
similarity metrics
music summarization
user interfaces and user models
music recommendation and playlist generation
text and web mining
knowledge representation, social tags and metadata
libraries, archives and digital collections
evaluation and annotation issues
methodological and philosophical issues
social, legal, ethical and business issues
applications to traditional/folk/ethnic music
To ensure a high quality of the contributions, all papers will go
through a double-blind selection process with at least three reviewers
per submission.
Paper submissions must be no more than 6 pages long when formatted with
the conference template, and in PDF. Accepted papers will be designated
by the Program Committee to be presented either as posters or as
lectures. All accepted papers have the same status, assignment as poster
or lecture is not indicative of the relevance or potential impact but on
the type of content and way to better reach the intended audience.
More details on http://ismir2012.ismir.net/authors/submission#paper
-----MUSIC-----
ISMIR 2012 welcomes submissions of musical works for selection and
possible inclusion in the conference's concert programme. We
particularly encourage works that explore the notion of music
information in the widest sense of the term. As the use of technology in
music creation develops across composition and performance practices,
structured data plays an increasingly important role in the processing
of musical materials, their analysis and their manifestation in a live
environment. From the use of timbral analysis in spectral music to the
design of live improvisation systems, the handling of information is
critical to the role technology plays in music.
The aim of ISMIR 2012 concert programme is two-fold: to encourage the
use of Music Information Retrieval (MIR) techniques in the creation of
new music and to explore music that can suggest novel ideas for research
in the MIR field.
The music programme in the conference will be centred around two curated
concerts. Professional musicians will be available to perform the pieces.
Submitted musical works will go through a selection process by the
conference music chairs and music curators.
More details on http://ismir2012.ismir.net/music/
-----TUTORIALS-----
The first day of ISMIR 2012 will consist of parallel sessions of
tutorials, each lasting three hours and concentrating on a single topic.
The tutorials are intended to provide a stimulating coverage of that
topic appealing to a general audience.
More details on http://ismir2012.ismir.net/authors/submission#tutorial
-----LATE-BREAK/DEMOS-----
As in previous years, ISMIR 2012 will also include a special track for
demos and late-breaking news, with a later deadline than the main
paper/poster track. Demos consist of live, hands-on presentations of
working software which incorporate MIR algorithms or are relevant to MIR
research. Late-breaking news are quite the opposite: unpolished,
not-quite-understood-yet puzzles and findings that may barely hold
together, but are guaranteed to foster debate and discussion. Both are
things better interacted with than lectured about.
While recent years have seen a majority of submissions in the demo
category, we will endeavor to reach a better balance of both types of
submission this year. In particular, we envision to differentiate the
presentation format for demos and late-breaking news - the former, in
the walk-around exhibition style that has been successful at previous
ISMIRs; the latter, in a more participative, un-conference style.
Details will be posted at a later date.
Both types of submissions will consist of extended abstracts of 1-2
pages, which will be peer-reviewed in a double-blind manner by members
of the programme committee like the submissions for the main paper
track. In the case of demo submissions, abstracts should describe what
the typical user scenario will be as well as the technical requirements
for the presentation. In the case of late-breaking news, abstracts
should make the case of why the result is inspirational and topical for
the MIR community.
More details on http://ismir2012.ismir.net/authors/submission#latebreak
-----SPECIAL SESSION "MIRrors: Looking back to the past of ISMIR to face
the future of MIR"-----
What is MIRrors?
ISMIR 2012 will feature a special session on "Looking back to the past
of ISMIR to face the future of MIR", (the "MIRrors" session) in which
authors will present reflections on the evolution of the MIR field or a
particular MIR topic since 2000, and provide insights on short-term
future challenges.
We are looking for provocative, controversial ideas, challenging and
thought-provocative positional papers.
For instance, MIRrors papers may:
Reflect on why a particular topic has failed, is systematically not
improving, and why it may be doomed to continue this way.
Reflect on negative results that have, or have not, had the proper
impact on MIR research.
Retrieve/revisit some forgotten or scarcely cited papers or promising
idea(s) from a particular edition of the conference, or a number of
editions, whose potential has not been fully exploited.
Remind, recover, revisit what was presented on a given edition of the
ISMIR conference, highlighting the best or most significant contributions.
Trace and explain the evolution of a given idea through different
editions of ISMIR.
Provide a review of the impact of a particular idea on the MIR community.
Provide a review of the impact of a particular MIR idea/topic on other
conferences or neighboring fields of science (e.g. including a technical
review in terms of h-index).
Propose replication studies, in particular showing discrepancies
between commonly accepted ideas in the MIR community and reality.
...
Participating to the MIRrors session
The MIRrors session consists of *invited* submissions.
Nevertheless, researchers are invited to express their interest in
participating to the MIRrors session by submitting an abstract of no
more than 200 words to <[log in to unmask]>. (Note the *very
early deadline* for expressions of interest. Expressions of interest
reaching the Committee after this deadline, or longer than the word
limit will not be considered.)
Selected authors will then be individually invited by the Committee to
submit a paper to be reviewed for possible inclusion in the session (see
dates below). The submitted papers will be reviewed by 3 referees.
This call applies both to PhD students reviewing the state-of-the-art
for their thesis as well as seasoned researchers.
Format
Paper submissions (only for invited authors) should comply with the
regular ISMIR paper format. Papers should be 6 pages-long at most.
Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings.
Accepted papers will be online 1 month before the conference, and will
be presented at the conference in short talks, leaving plenty of room
for discussion.
Special Issue
A selection of papers from the MIRrors session will be considered for
inclusion, together with a regular set of submissions for a special
issue of an international journal on the topic of "Current status and
future directions in MIR research". This special issue is intended to
appear after ISMIR 2012 and to also comprise papers not presented at the
conference.
Important dates for MIRrors
- Deadline for expressions of interest to MIRrors: December 19th 2011
- Committee invites selection of authors to submit: January 12th 2012
- Deadline for MIRrors papers (only for invited authors): May 11th 2012
- Rebuttal period: June 4th-18th 2012
- Notification of acceptance: June 18th 2012
More details on http://ismir2012.ismir.net/authors/submission#mirrors
-----COMMITTEE-----
Conference Chairs: Fabien Gouyon (INESC Porto) and Carlos Guedes (INESC
Porto)
Scientific Chairs: Perfecto Herrera (UPF, Barcelona), Luis Gustavo
Martins (UCP, Porto), Meinard Mueller (MPI, Saarbrucken)
Music Chair: Carlos Guedes (INESC Porto) and Pedro Rebelo (SARC, Belfast)
Music Curators: François Pachet (Sony CSL, Paris), Daniel Teruggi
(INA-GRM, Paris)
Tutorial Chair: Emilia Gómez (UPF, Barcelona)
Late-break/Demo Chair: Jean-Julien Aucouturier (LEAD, Dijon)
MIRrors Chair: Perfecto Herrera (UPF, Barcelona)
Local Organisation: U-Mind Lda
-----CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS-----
Printed proceedings will be provided, at an extra (reasonable) cost, to
participants who specifically ask for them. (Note the deadline for
printed proceedings request.)
-----IMPORTANT DATES-----
Deadline for expression of interest, special session on "MIRrors:
Looking back to the past of ISMIR to face the future of MIR": December
19th 2011
Tutorials deadline: 12th March 2012
Notification of acceptance for Tutorials: 13th April 2012
Papers/Posters and Music deadline: 13th April 2012
Notification of acceptance for Papers/Posters and Music: 18th June 2012
Early registration starts: 18th June 2012
Author registration deadline: 17th August 2012
Printed proceedings request deadline: 17th August 2012
Late-break/demos deadline: 24th August 2012
Notification of acceptance for Late-break/demos: 7th September 2012
Participant registration deadline: 14th September 2012
Conference Dates: 8th-12th October 2012
-----VENUE-----
Porto is Portugal's second city. The city is located in the estuary of
the Douro river in northern Portugal. The largest city in the region,
Porto is considered the economic and cultural heart of the entire
region. Porto's highlights include the historic centre, declared a World
Heritage Site by UNESCO, its dramatic modern architecture, and of course
great food and wine (including the famous Port wine).
The conference will take place in the São Bento da Vitória Monastery, a
classified National Monument since 1977. (See
http://www.tnsj.pt/home/msbv/ for more information).
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