The International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) is an international forum for research on the organization of music-related data. It started as an informal group steered by an ad hoc committee in 2000[1] which established a yearly symposium - whence "ISMIR", which meant International Symposium on Music Information Retrieval. It was turned into a conference in 2002 while retaining the acronym. ISMIR was incorporated in Canada on July 4, 2008.[2]
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, electrical engineering and many others.
Annual conferences
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 at the annual conference conducted by the society. It is known by the same acronym as the society, ISMIR. Following is the list of conferences held by the society.
The official webpage provides up-to-date information on past and future conferences and provides access to all past websites and to the cumulative databaseArchived 2011-04-10 at the Wayback Machine of all papers, posters and tutorials presented at these conferences. An overview of all papers published at ISMIR can be found at DBLP.
Research areas and topics
The following list gives an overview of the main research areas and topics that are within the scope of Music Information Retrieval.
MIR data and fundamentals
music signal processing
symbolic music processing
metadata, linked data and semantic web
social tags and user generated data
natural language processing, text and web mining
multi-modal approaches to MIR
Methodology
methodological issues and philosophical foundations
evaluation methodology
corpus creation
legal, social and ethical issues
Domain knowledge
representation of musical knowledge and meaning
music perception and cognition
computational music theory
computational musicology and ethnomusicology
Musical features and properties
melody and motives
harmony, chords and tonality
rhythm, beat, tempo
structure, segmentation and form
timbre, instrumentation and voice
musical style and genre
musical affect, emotion and mood
expression and performative aspects of music
Music processing
sound source separation
music transcription and annotation
optical music recognition
alignment, synchronization and score following
music summarization
music synthesis and transformation
fingerprinting
automatic classification
indexing and querying
pattern matching and detection
similarity metrics
Application
user behavior and modelling
user interfaces and interaction
digital libraries and archives
music retrieval systems
music recommendation and playlist generation
music and health, well-being and therapy
music training and education
MIR applications in music composition, performance and production
music and gaming
MIR in business and marketing
MIREX
The Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange (MIREX) is an annual evaluation campaign for MIR algorithms, coupled to the ISMIR conference. Since it started in 2005, MIREX has fostered advancements both in specific areas of MIR and in the general understanding of how MIR systems and algorithms are to be evaluated.[3][4] MIREX is to the MIR community what the Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) is to the text information retrieval community: A set of community-defined formal evaluations through which a wide variety of state-of-the-art systems, algorithms and techniques are evaluated under controlled conditions. MIREX is managed by the International Music Information Retrieval Systems Evaluation Laboratory (IMIRSEL) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).[5]
↑ J. Stephen Downie; Andreas F. Ehmann; Mert Bay; M. Cameron Jones (2010), "The Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange: Some Observations and Insights", Advances in Music Information Retrieval, Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol.274, pp.93–115, doi:10.1007/978-3-642-11674-2_5, ISBN978-3-642-11673-5
↑ Downie, J. Stephen; West, Kris; Ehmann, Andreas F.; Vincent, Emmanuel (2005). "The 2005 Music Information retrieval Evaluation Exchange (MIREX 2005): Preliminary Overview". Proceedings of the International Conference on Music Information Retrieval: 320–323.
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