event: The Ninth International Conference on Music Information Retrieval

ISMIR 2008
Philadelphia, PA, USA • http://ismir2008.ismir.net

Important dates

Submission of papers, tutorials and panels March 26, 2008

Notification of acceptance June 4, 2008

Camera-ready submissions June 25, 2008

Submission of abstracts for late breaking/demo session July 24, 2008

ISMIR 2008 September 14-18, 2008

Call for Participation

The Ninth International Conference on Music Information Retrieval will take place September 14-18, 2008 (Sunday through Thursday), in Philadelphia, USA. Since its inception in 2000, ISMIR has rapidly become the premier venue for the multidisciplinary field of accessing, analyzing, and managing large collections and archives of music information. The expansion of the music information retrieval (MIR) community reflects the enormous challenges and opportunities presented by the recent and tremendous growth in available music and music-related data. ISMIR provides a forum for the exchange of ideas between representatives of academia, industry, entertainment, and education, including researchers, developers, educators, librarians, students, and professional users, who contribute to this broadly interdisciplinary domain. Alongside presentations of original theoretical research and practical work, ISMIR provides introductory and in-depth tutorials, and a venue for the showcase of current MIR-related products and systems.To reflect the increased maturity of the event and of the field, this year’s conference introduces several significant changes over recent ISMIR conferences.

The topic areas and emphasis on high quality and exciting research in all aspects of MIR remain unchanged. Novel and previously unpublished submissions are solicited in areas including, but not limited to, the following:

* content-based querying and retrieval
* database systems, indexing, and query
* fingerprinting and digital rights management
* compression and streaming

* optical music recognition
* score following and audio alignment
* transcription and annotation

* computational musicology
* perception and cognition
* harmony, chords and tonality
* melody and motives
* rhythm, beat, tempo and form
* timbre, instrumentation and voice
* modification and transformation of music data

* emotion and aesthetics
* performance analysis
* applications of MIR to the performing arts and multimedia

* automatic classification
* genre, style and mood
* similarity metrics
* music summarization

* user interfaces and user models
* music recommendation and playlist generation
* text and web mining

* evaluation of MIR systems
* knowledge representation, user tags and metadata
* libraries, archives and digital collections

* methodological and philosophical issues
* social, legal, ethical and business issues

Additional information is available on http://ismir2008.ismir.net/cfp