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, on the last day of the conference. However, the format will change quite a bit from previous years... this year the conference track for demos and late-breaking results will be held in an "unconference" style: the program is built here beforehand with the help of participants, and the sessions are designed to foster interactions discussions rather than a more traditional lecture approach.

Everybody is welcome to contribute. There is no deadline, we will welcome ideas that emerge even during the conference.

There is a dedicated wiki for participating in this session.

Call for Music

See here.