CFP: Multi-Modal Music IR (3MIR) Special Session at ACM Multimedia IR 2010

[Dan Ellis <dpwe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Special Session on Multi-Modal Music Information Retrieval (3MIR)
at the
11th ACM International Conference on Multimedia Information (MIR)
(March 29-31, Philadelphia PA USA)

* CALL FOR PAPERS *

The use of multiple sources of information has great potential to
improve Music IR.  Heterogeneous, multi-modal information sources may
include audio tracks, symbolic musical scores, text-based tags or web
pages, and numeric ratings. This special session will bring together
top researchers who are actively focusing on combining multiple
sources of music information to address important Music IR tasks.

* Papers are due to special session committee by Friday Nov. 13th at
11:59pm EST.
* To submit, email a pdf of your manuscript to MultiModalMusicIR@xxxxxxxxxx
* Feedback on submission will be given on Tuesday Dec. 1st.
* If accepted, final camera-ready papers will be due on Tuesday Dec. 22nd.
* Special session papers are regarded as full papers at ACM MIR 2010
and will be published in the full conference proceedings.
* Papers should be on novel work and should not have appeared in any
other conferences, workshops, or journals.
* At least one author of each paper is expected to register at the
conference (March 29-31 in Philadelphia PA USA).
* Papers can be a maximum of 10 pages in the ACM style.

Invited speakers:
Malcolm Slaney (Yahoo! Research and Stanford CCRMA)
Gert Lanckriet & Brian McFee (UCSD)
Meinard Müller, Peter Grosche, Frans Wiering (Max Planck Institute for
Informatics, Utrecht)
Brian Whitman, Tristan Jehan, Paul Lamere (The Echo Nest)
Ichiro Fujinaga & Cory McKay (McGill)

Conference Website: http://riemann.ist.psu.edu/mir2010/index.html
Special Session Website: http://labrosa.ee.columbia.edu/3mir09/

Please mail questions to MultiModalMusicIR@xxxxxxxxxx

Special Session Committee:
Douglas Turnbull, Swarthmore College
Youngmoo Kim, Drexel University
Dan Ellis, Columbia University