[Asis-l] MIREX 2014: Announcing the Music Information Retrieval eXchange for 2014

[Downie, J Stephen]

Dear Colleagues:

The 2014 Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange (MIREX) is now open for submissions! This will be tenth year of MIREX and we hope for the best one yet! Over the past nine years, MIREX has evaluated nearly 2050 MIR algorithm runs on a wide variety of music-related tasks.

This year we have 20 possible tasks, 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.

For the second year in a row, we also are looking for volunteer Task Captains to adopt and run tasks.

BACKGROUND INFORMATION
More information can be found at the MIREX 2014 wiki, including details on submitting:
http://www.music-ir.org/mirex/wiki/2014:Main_Page

SUBMISSION STARTING POINT
http://www.music-ir.org/mirex/wiki/MIREX_2014_Submission_Instructions

Please follow the instructions carefully. It is important that you read (and understand) the submission instructions from top to bottom.

This Year, 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. 

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 2014 Team <mirex at imirsel.org>.

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

Cheers,
J. Stephen Downie, on behalf of the MIREX 2014 Team

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DEADLINES
# July 16th 2014
- Audio Classification (Train/Test) Tasks
- Audio K-POP Genre Classification
- Audio K-POP Mood Classification
- Audio Tag Classification <TC: Priya Arora>

# August 16th 2014
- Audio Music Similarity and Retrieval
- Symbolic Melodic Similarity
- Structural Segmentation
- Audio Tempo Estimation
- Audio Offset Detection <TC: David Heise>

# September 16th 2014
- Audio Onset Detection <TC: Sebastian Böck>
- Audio Beat Tracking <TC: Fu-Hai Frank Wu>
- Audio Key Detection <TC: Johan Pauwels>
- Multiple Fundamental Frequency Estimation & Tracking
- Real-time Audio to Score Alignment (a.k.a Score Following)
- Audio Cover Song Identification
- Discovery of Repeated Themes & Sections <TC: Tom Collins>
- Audio Melody Extraction <TC: KETI>
- Query by Singing/Humming <TC: KETI>
- Query by Tapping <TC: CCRMA QBT Team>
- Audio Chord Estimation <TC: Johan Pauwels>

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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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