[Asis-l] CFP: for ISMIR 2014 (27-31 October, Taipei): International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference

Wed Mar 12 21:27:12 EDT 2014

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CALL FOR PAPERS

Paper submission deadline: May 2, 2014

ISMIR 2014:

The 15th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference

Oct 27-31, 2014

The Grand Hotel <http://www.grand-hotel.org/>, Taipei, Taiwan

http://ismir2014.ismir.net

Important Dates

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Tutorial proposal due: March 28, 2014

Notification of tutorial acceptance: May 2, 2014

Paper submission due: May 2, 2014

Notification of paper acceptance: June 27, 2014

LB/Demo: August, 2014

Overview

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The annual conference of the International Society for Music Information
Retrieval (ISMIR) is the world's leading interdisciplinary forum on
accessing, analyzing, and organizing digital music of all sorts. The ISMIR
conference embraces the complexity and diversity of music by showcasing
ideas and applications that enhance the way in which we interact with
music. Centered around MIR, the conference aims to foster dialogue across
disciplines by bringing together researchers, developers, educators,
librarians, students and professionals, providing multifaceted interaction
and cross-fertilization that will benefit a wide range of related fields.

Programs and Events

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ISMIR 2014 will feature the following programs/events:

- Tutorials and keynote speech

- Oral and poster presentations

- Grand Challenge of MIREX (to celebrate the 10th MIREX)

- Late-breaking/demo session

- Music program

- Music hack day (a satellite event on Oct 25-26)

About Taipei & Taiwan

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- CNN: 10 things Taiwan does better than anywhere
else<http://edition.cnn.com/2014/01/15/travel/10-things-taiwan>

- BuzzFeed Travel: 28 Reasons To Love
Taipei<http://www.buzzfeed.com/kevintang/reasons-to-love-taipei>

- New York Times: 36 Hours in Taipei,
Taiwan<http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/02/travel/02hours.html?pagewanted=all>

- BuzzFeed Travel: 26 Remarkable Places For Solo
Travel<http://www.buzzfeed.com/laraparker/best-places-for-solo-travel>

- New York Times: 52 Places to Go in
2014<http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/01/10/travel/2014-places-to-go.html?%20r=0&_r=0>

Topics of Interest

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ISMIR 2014 solicits contributions to the fields of music information
retrieval, including but not limited to the following topics:

- content-based query and retrieval

- database systems, indexing and query

- fingerprinting and digital right management

- music transcription and annotation

- music signal processing

- symbolic music processing

- music sound source separation

- score following and music synchronization

- optical music recognition

- melody and motives

- rhythm, beat, tempo

- structure segmentation and analysis

- harmony, chords and tonality

- timbre, instrumentation and voice

- performance analysis

- music synthesis and transformation

- computational musicology

- music perception and cognition

- computational ethnomusicology

- emotion, mood, affection

- MIR applications

- genre, style and mood analysis

- similarity metrics

- music summarization

- user interfaces & interaction

- user modeling

- music recommendation

- playlist generation

- text and web mining

- social tags and metadata

- libraries, archives and digital collections

- evaluation and annotation

- aesthetics

- music and gaming

All papers will go through a double-blind selection process with at least
three reviewers per submission. 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.

Tutorials

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The first day of ISMIR 2014 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 the topic appealing to a
general audience.

Late-Break/Demos

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As in previous years, ISMIR 2014 will 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 or
hardware which is relevant to MIR research/technology. On the other hand,
late-breaking news is unpolished, intriguing issues or findings that are
likely to invoke discussion or debate. Details will be posted at a later
date.

Call for Sponsorships

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ISMIR 2014 offers sponsorship opportunities at Gold, Silver and Bronze
levels. Be sure to take this opportunity and become a proud sponsor of the
conference, where you can showcase your company's latest products and
development to an international crowd of MIR researchers/practitioners, and
learn about the state-of-the-art research and technologies in MIR. Benefits
of the sponsorships can be found here:
http://www.terasoft.com.tw/conf/ismir2014/CallforSponsorship.html

Organizing Team

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- General chairs

    JS Roger Jang (National Taiwan University)

    Masataka Goto (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and
Technology (AIST))

    Xiao Hu (University of Hong Kong)

- Program chairs

    Hsin-Min Wang (Academia Sinica)

    Yi-Hsuan Yang (Academia Sinica)

    Jin Ha Lee (University of Washington)

- Publicity chair

    Ye Wang (National University of Singapore)

- Tutorial chair

    Li Su (Academia Sinica)

- Music chairs

    Jeff Huang (Kainan University)

    Yi-Wen Liu (National Tsing Hua University)

- Web/publication chair

    Ching-Hua Chuan (University of North Florida)

- Registration chair

    Jia-Ching Wang (National Central University)

- Late breaking and demo chair

    Ju-Chiang Wang (University of California at San Diego)

- Unconference chair

    Eric Humphrey (New York University)

- Finance chair

    Ming-Feng Tsai (National Chengchi University)

- Local arrangement chairs

    Jia-Lien Hsu (Fu Jen Catholic University)

    Wei-Ho Tsai (National Taipei University of Technology)

Contact Info

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- Questions about

    Paper submission: ismir2014-papers at ismir.net

    Music submission: ismir2014-music at ismir.net

    Tutorials: ismir2014-tutorials at ismir.net

    Late breaking and demos: ismir2014-latebreak at ismir.net

    Registrations: ismir2014-registration at ismir.net

    Sponsorship: ismir2014-sponsorship at ismir.net

    Finance: ismir2014-finance at ismir.net

    Website: ismir2014-web at ismir.net

- Contact

    General chair: ismir2014-generalchair at ismir.net

    Program chair: ismir2014-programChair at ismir.net

    Local chair: ismir2014-localchair at ismir.net

-- 
Xiao Hu, PhD
Assistant Professor
Faculty of Education
The University of Hong Kong
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