[Asis-l] MIREX 2015: Announcing the 2015 Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange

[Downie, J Stephen]

Dear Friends and Colleagues:

The 2015 Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange (MIREX) wiki is now up and running. This will be eleventh year of MIREX and we hope for the best one yet! Over the past ten years, MIREX has evaluated nearly 2,400 MIR algorithm runs on a wide variety of music-related tasks.

MIREX has rolling deadline from July to September, please refer to the list at the bottom of this email for the submission data for your task. We will announce the submission system open in a few weeks. 

This year we have 22 possible tasks; 19 existing tasks and 3 new ones, but if you and your colleagues wish to propose new tasks or new data, please feel free to set up at task page on the wiki. We strive to keep MIREX a community endeavor. In keeping with MIREX tradition, if we have three teams involved in a task, we will run that task.

We wish to thank our volunteer Task Captains who will be running each task. Their names can be found below in the Deadlines section.

BACKGROUND INFORMATION
More information can be found at the MIREX 2015 wiki, including details on submitting:
http://www.music-ir.org/mirex/wiki/2015:Main_Page

TASK CAPTAIN LIST
http://www.music-ir.org/mirex/wiki/2015:Task_Captains 

CONTACT INFORMATION:
The EvalFest mailing list <evalfest at lists.lis.illinois.edu> is our  primary point of communication. To subscribe, visit https://mail.lis.illinois.edu/mailman/listinfo/evalfest. For personal questions, please contact  the MIREX 2015 Team <mirex at imirsel.org>.

We will announce three possible Grand Challenge 2015: User Experience (GC15UX) tasks in a few weeks. 

This year marks the first MIREX that is not funded by external grants. If you are interested in sponsoring the great and exciting work that MIREX, please contact us at <jdownie at illinois.edu>.

Remember, MIREX is all about community involvement; so, get involved!

Cheers,
J. Stephen Downie, on behalf of the MIREX 2015 Team

DEADLINES
# July 16th 2015
- Audio Classification (Train/Test) Tasks (TC: IMIRSEL) # August 16th 2015
- Audio Music Similarity and Retrieval (TC: IMIRSEL)
- Audio Offset Detection (TC: David Heise)
- Audio Tag Classification (TC: Mohamed Sordo)
- Audio Tempo Estimation (TC: Aggelos Gkiokas)
- Multiple Fundamental Frequency Estimation & Tracking (TC: Li Su, Yujia Yan)
- Music/Speech Classification/Detection (TC: Tillman Weyde)
- Set List Identification (TC: Ming-Chi Yen, Hsin-Min Wang, Ju-Chiang Wang, Yi-Hsuan Yang)
- Structural Segmentation (TC: IMIRSEL)
- Symbolic Melodic Similarity (TC: Nikhil Narasimha Kini) # September 9th 2015
- Audio Beat Tracking (TC: Sebastian Böck, Florian Krebs, Fu-Hai Frank Wu)
- Audio Chord Estimation (TC: Johan Pauwels)
- Audio Cover Song Identification (TC: Chris Tralie)
- Audio Downbeat Estimation (TC: Florian Krebs, Sebastian Böck)
- Audio Key Detection (TC: Johan Pauwels)
- Audio Melody Extraction (TC: KETI (Dalwon Jang))
- Audio Onset Detection (TC: Sebastian Böck)
- Audio Fingerprinting (TC: Chung-Che Wang)
- Discovery of Repeated Themes & Sections (TC: Tom Collins)
- Query by Singing/Humming (TC: KETI Dalwon Jang))
- Real-time Audio to Score Alignment (TC: Chunta Chen, Yujia Yan, Julio Carabias)
- Singing Voice Separation (TC: Tak-Shing Chan, Yi-Hsuan Yang, Li Su)

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   "Research funding makes the world a better place"
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J. Stephen Downie, PhD     
Associate Dean for Research     
Professor     
Graduate School of Library and Information Science    
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign    
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