[Asis-l] Call for Papers: International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR17) -- Suzhou, China

[Xiao Hu]

Dear All,

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*Call for Participation*

18th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference
(ISMIR17)

23-28 October, 2017, Suzhou, China


*Accepting submissions for:*

   - Conference papers
   - Tutorials
   - Late-breaking papers & demos
   - Musical performances

*Important Dates:*

   - March 24: Tutorial Proposals Due
   - April 21: Paper Abstract Due
   - April 28: Full Paper Due
   - April 28: Notification of Tutorial Acceptance
   - June 23: Notification of Paper Acceptance
   - June 30: Workshop/Special Session on MIR for Health Contributions Due
   - June 30: Music Submissions Due (tentative)
   - July 14: Notification of Workshop/Special Session Contribution
   Acceptance
   - July 21: Early Registration Ends
   - August 16: Late-Breaking Papers & Demos Opens
   - October 22: General Registration Ends
   - October 22: Late-Breaking Papers & Demos Closes


*Overview*
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.
More information about ISMIR can be found from: http://www.ismir.net/.

Music-Information Retrieval (Music-IR) is a wide-ranging area of study and
includes elements from the disciplines of musicology, machine learning,
signal processing, cognitive science, library and information science,
music therapy, and many others. At ISMIR 2017 we aim to present work
covering the state-of-the-art of this entire field of study, allowing
researchers from every branch of this field to exchange ideas, compare
results, and initiate collaborations.

In addition, ISMIR 2017 will be hosting workshops with their own submission
requirements.

*Topics of Interest*:
Music-IR data and fundamentals such as:

Music signal processing
Symbolic music processing
Metadata, tags, linked data, and semantic web
Lyrics and other textual data, web mining, and natural language processing
Multimodal approaches to Music-IR

Extracting musical features and properties such as

Genre
Mood and emotion
Instrumentation
Melody and harmony
Pitches and chords
Key and mode
Rhythm, beat, and tempo
Structure
Timbre
Expressive and performative elements

Estimating music metadata such as:

Artist
Album
Release date
Popularity
Tags
Cover song detection

Methods for manipulating, analyzing, and processing musical sequences such
as:

Sound source separation
Alignment, synchronization, and score following
Automatic transcription
Music synthesis, transformation, and augmentation
Fingerprinting

Applications for Music-IR such as:

Music-IR for health and therapy
Music-IR for learning
Music-IR for indexing, querying, and retrieving music
Music-IR for pattern matching and detection
Music-IR for determining similarity
Music-IR for music recommendation
Music-IR for music training
Music-IR for gaming
Music-IR for enhanced performances
Music-IR for business and marketing
Music-IR for digital libraries and archives

Domain-specific knowledge such as:

Computational music theory
Computational musicology
Cognitive Music-IR
Representations of music

Methodological and social concerns such as:

Corpus creation
Annotation methodology
Evaluation methodology
Legal issues
Ethical issues

User-based concerns such as:

User behavior
User modeling
Human-computer interfaces


*Scientific Program Notes*
All papers will go through a double-blind review. Each paper will be
assigned at least three reviewers per submission. All accepted papers will
be presented at ISMIR 2017 as either a poster or an oral presentation. The
Program Committee will determine which submissions will be presented orally
and which will be presented as posters; this determination will not be
based on the relevance or potential impact of the papers, but rather on the
content and the best method to reach each paper’s intended audience. Each
paper may have a maximum of six pages of scientific content (including
figures and possible references) and one additional page which may only
contain references.

*Call for Sponsorship*
ISMIR 2017 offers sponsorship opportunities at Platinum, 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.

*Conference Committee*
General chairs

Ye Wang, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore
Jyh-Shing Roger Jang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Wei Li, Fudan University, Mainland China

Program co-chairs

Xiao Hu, Hong Kong University, Hong Kong
Sally Jo Cunningham, University of Waikato, New Zealand
Douglas Turnbull, Ithaca College, USA

Sponsorship and travel grant co-chairs

Lei Xie, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Mainland China
Blair Kaneshiro, Stanford University, USA

Proceeding chair

Zhiyao Duan, University of Rochester, USA

Tutorial co-chairs

Emilia Gomez, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
Kyogu Lee, Seoul National University, Korea

Unconference co-chairs

Yi-Hsuan Yang, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Ning Chen, East China University of Science and Technology, Mainland China

Women in MIR

Jin Ha Lee, University of Washington, USA
Preeti Rao, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB), India
Zhongzhe Xiao, Soochow University, Mainland China

WEB co-chairs

Zhiyan Duan, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore
Chitralekha Gupta, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore

Late-break/demo/student volunteer co-chairs

David Grunberg, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore
Boyd Anderson, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore

Registration co-chairs

Simon Lui, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), Singapore
Kat Agres, A*STAR, Singapore

Music program co-chairs

Gus Xia, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Zhengshan Shi, Stanford University, USA
Simon Lui, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), Singapore

Local organizing co-chairs

Tiow Seng Tan, National University of Singapore Research Institute (NUSRI)
Suzhou, Mainland China
Xi Shao, Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications, Mainland China
Mi Tian, Queen Mary University of London, UK

Advisory Board

Meinard Müller, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU),
Germany
Masataka Goto, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and
Technology, Japan
Anja Volk, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Stephen Downie, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (UIUC), USA
George Tzanetakis, University of Victoria (UViC), Canada
Simon Dixon, Queen Mary University of London, UK

*Contact information*
· General Conference Inquires: ismir2017 at ismir.net
· Program Inquires: ismir2017-papers at ismir.net
· Sponsorship Inquires: ismir2017-sponsorship at ismir.net


Xiao Hu, PhD
Faculty of Education
The University of Hong Kong
Room 329, Hui Oi-Chow Science Building
Tel: 22194722
Email: xiaoxhu at hku.hk