Call for Participation

Call for papers

ISMIR 2012 welcomes paper submissions for oral or poster presentation in the (non-exclusive) areas of:

• content-based querying and retrieval 
• database systems, indexing and query 
• fingerprinting and digital rights management
• music transcription and annotation 
• music signal processing 
• symbolic music processing 
• sound source separation in music signals 
• score following, audio alignment and music synchronization 
• optical music recognition 
• melody and motives 
• rhythm, beat, tempo 
• structure segmentation and analysis 
• harmony, chords and tonality 
• timbre, instrumentation and voice 
• performance analysis 
• modification and transformation of music data 
• computational musicology 
• music perception and cognition 
• computational ethnomusicology 
• emotion, mood, affection 
• applications of MIR to the performing arts and multimedia
• automatic classification 
• genre, style and mood analysis 
• similarity metrics 
• music summarization 
• user interfaces, interaction 
• user models 
• music recommendation 
• playlist generation 
• text and web mining 
• knowledge representation, social tags and metadata 
• libraries, archives and digital collections 
• evaluation and annotation 
• methodology 
• aesthetics 
• philosophical issues 
• social, legal, ethical and business issues

To ensure a high quality of the contributions, all papers will go through a double-blind selection process with at least three reviewers per submission.

See here for more details on paper submissions and selection.

Call for tutorials

The first day of ISMIR 2012 will consist of parallel sessions of tutorials, each lasting three hours and concentrating on a single topic. The tutorials are intended to provide a stimulating coverage of that topic appealing to a general audience.

See here for more details on tutorial submissions and selection.

Call for late-break/demos

As in previous years, ISMIR 2012 will also include a special track for demos and late-breaking news, with a later deadline than the main paper/poster track. Demos consist of live, hands-on presentations of working software which incorporate MIR algorithms or are relevant to MIR research. Late-breaking news are quite the opposite: unpolished, not-quite-understood-yet puzzles and findings that may barely hold together, but are guaranteed to foster debate and discussion. Both are things better interacted with than lectured about.

While recent years have seen a majority of submissions in the demo category, we will endeavor to reach a better balance of both types of submission this year. In particular, we envision to differentiate the presentation format for demos and late-breaking news - the former, in the walk-around exhibition style that has been successful at previous ISMIRs; the latter, in a more participative, un-conference style. (Details will be posted at a later date.)

See here for more details on late-break/demo submissions and selection.

Call for Music

See here.