The 8th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval, ISMIR 2007, will be held at the Vienna University of Technology in Vienna, Austria, from Sunday, September 23rd to Thursday, September 27th, 2007.
The annual ISMIR Conference is the established international forum for those working on accessing digital musical material. It reflects the tremendous recent growth of available music-related data and the consequent need to search within it to retrieve music and musical information efficiently and effectively. These concerns are of interest to academia, industry, entertainment, and education. ISMIR therefore aims to provide a place for the exchange and discussion of news, issues, and results, by bringing together researchers and developers, educators and librarians, students and professional users, working in fields that contribute to this multidisciplinary domain. Alongside presentations of original theoretical and practical work, ISMIR provides introductory and in-depth tutorials in specific domains and showcases current products and systems.
ISMIR 2007 solicits contributions to the field of music information retrieval (MIR), including, but not limited to, the following topics as they relate to MIR:
All contributions must be original, and must not have been previously published, nor be under review for presentation elsewhere. Authors are required explicitly to demonstrate the relevance of their methods to MIR, and are strongly encouraged to include aural music examples in their presentations (preferably using copyright-free or copyright-cleared examples), and to address evaluation of their work (using benchmark data where possible).
We invite submissions in the categories of long paper, short paper, poster/demo, tutorial, panel and exhibit. All paper and poster/demo submissions to ISMIR 2007 will be handled in electronic format via the submission web page, which will be linked from the ISMIR 2007 web site: http://ismir2007.ismir.net. Templates for LaTeX and MS Word will also be available from this site.
Submissions, which will be peer-reviewed, may be in the following categories:
Papers (long and short) should describe original research.
Poster/Demo submissions provide an excellent opportunity for presenting preliminary results and ideas, as well as applications that are deemed especially interesting to the ISMIR community. Poster/Demo presentations do not necessarily contain strong research results or systematic evaluation.
The first day of the conference (September 23rd, 2007) will consist of a parallel session of tutorials each concentrating on a single topic presented either at an introductory level or in depth, lasting about 3 hours (including a break). Submissions should consist of a 1-2 page abstract including:
The document should be sent as a pdf attachment via email to ismir2007-tutorials(AT)ismir[DOT]net.
A roster of special panels is planned. Panels should be lively, controversial, and provoke discussion on a specific topic of interest to the community. Panel sessions should not consist of paper presentations, but should have plenty of discussion engaging the audience. Submissions should consist of a 1-2 page abstract including:
The document should be sent as a pdf attachment via email to ismir2007-panels(AT)ismir[DOT]net.
Throughout ISMIR 2007, space will be available for publishers, software houses, booksellers, software merchants, service providers, systems vendors, and any other companies interested in exhibiting their products. They are invited to contact the program committee via email to ismir2007-exhibits(AT)ismir[DOT]net regarding the ISMIR bookstore and/or exhibition space.
