International Society for Music Information Retrieval
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The International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) is international forum for research on the organization of music-related data. It began with a streeing committee in 2000, and was later incorporated in Canada on July 4, 2008.
As the term Music Information Retrieval (MIR) indicates, this research is motivated by the desire to provide music lovers, music professionals and music industry with robust, effective and usable methods and tools to help them locate, retrieve and experience the music they wish to have access to. MIR is a truly interdisciplinary area, involving researchers from the disciplines of musicology, cognitive science, library and information science, computer science and many others.
The official webpage provides a more up-to-date information on past and future conferences.
MIR tasks evaluated at past MIREXs include:
Purpose
Given the tremendous growth of digital music and music metadata in recent years, methods for effectively extracting, searching, and organizing music information have received widespread interest from academia and the information and entertainment industries. The purpose of ISMIR is to provide a venue for the exchange of news, ideas, and results through the presentation of original theoretical or practical work. By bringing together researchers and developers, educators and librarians, students and professional users, all working in fields that contribute to this multidisciplinary domain, the conference also serves as a discussion forum, provides introductory and in-depth information on specific domains, and showcases current products.As the term Music Information Retrieval (MIR) indicates, this research is motivated by the desire to provide music lovers, music professionals and music industry with robust, effective and usable methods and tools to help them locate, retrieve and experience the music they wish to have access to. MIR is a truly interdisciplinary area, involving researchers from the disciplines of musicology, cognitive science, library and information science, computer science and many others.
Annual Conference
Since its inception in 2000, ISMIR has been the world’s leading forum for research on the modelling, creation, searching, processing and use of musical data. Researchers across the globe meet in the annual conference, International Conference on Music Information Retrieval, conducted by the society. It is known by the same acronym as the society, the ISMIR. Following is the list of previous conferences held by the society.- ISMIR 2010, 9–13 August 2010, Utrecht (Netherlands)
- ISMIR 2009, 26–30 October 2009, Kobe (Japan)
- ISMIR 2008, 14–18 September 2008, Philadelphia (USA) proceedings
- ISMIR 2007, 23–30 September 2007, Vienna (Austria) proceedings
- ISMIR 2006, 8–12 October 2006, Victoria, BC (Canada) proceedings
- ISMIR 2005, 11–15 September 2005, London (UK) proceedings
- ISMIR 2004, 10–15 October 2004, Barcelona (Spain) proceedings
- ISMIR 2003, 26–30 October 2003, Baltimore, Maryland (USA) proceedings
- ISMIR 2002, 13–17 October 2002, Paris (France) proceedings
- ISMIR 2001, 15–17 October 2001, Bloomington, Indiana (USA) proceedings
- ISMIR 2000, 23–25 October 2000, Plymouth, Massachusetts (USA) proceedings
The official webpage provides a more up-to-date information on past and future conferences.
MIREX
The Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange (MIREX) is an annual evaluation campaign for Music Information Retrieval (MIR) algorithms, coupled to the ISMIR.MIR tasks evaluated at past MIREXs include:
- Audio Train/Test Tasks
- Audio Artist Identification
- Audio Genre Classification
- Audio Music Mood Classification
- Audio Classical Composer Identification
- Symbolic Genre Classification
- Audio Onset Detection
- Audio Key Detection
- Symbolic Key Detection
- Audio Tag Classification
- Audio Cover Song Identification
- Real-time Audio to Score Alignment (a.k.a Score Following)
- Query by Singing/Humming
- Multiple Fundamental Frequency Estimation & Tracking
- Audio Chord Estimation
- Audio Melody Extraction
- Query by Tapping
- Audio Beat Tracking
- Audio Music Similarity and Retrieval
- Symbolic Melodic Similarity
- Structural Segmentation
- Audio Drum Detection
- Audio Tempo Extraction
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