Audio genre, tag and cover song classification tasks at MIREX 2008

[Kris West <kw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All,

Apologies for cross-postings.

I've posted a proposal for Audio genre classification on the MIREX 2008 
wiki at:
http://www.music-ir.org/mirex/2008/index.php/Audio_Genre_Classification

We are intending to use two databases for evaluation this year, 
including a database of Latin music contributed by Carlos Silla 
(University of Kent, UK) and a database of a similar nature to that used 
last year. The Latin music database was recorded and labelled by experts 
from Carlos' home nation, Brazil.

A poll has been posted on the genre classification wiki as to whether 
there is significant interest in the running of Artist identificaiton 
and classical composer identification tasks. We will have to establish 
whether Artist identificaiton is an appropriate task over the Latin 
music DB.

Michael Mandel has also posted an interesting Audio tag classification 
task, based on data collected as part of the MajorMiner game, on the 
MIREX wiki, at:
http://www.music-ir.org/mirex/2008/index.php/Audio_Tag_Classification

Finally, the Audio cover song identificaiton task will run again this, 
details can be found at:
http://www.music-ir.org/mirex/2008/index.php/Audio_Cover_Song_Identification

Further, discussion of these tasks should be conducted on the MIREX 
audio classification planning list (MRX-COM00). You can sign up at:
https://mail.lis.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/mrx-com00



Regards,

Kris West