ISMIR 2013 - 14th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference

ISMIR 2013
14th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference
4-8 November 2013 Curitiba, Brazil
http://ismir2013.ismir.net/
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 2013 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.
ISMIR 2013 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://ismir2013.ismir.net