Call for papers: AES 42nd Conference on Semantic Audio, Ilmenau, Germany, July 22-24, 2011

[Anssi Klapuri <klap@xxxxxxxxx>]

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Call for papers

Audio Engineering Society 42nd Conference on Semantic Audio
Ilmenau, Germany, July 22-24, 2011
Cochairs: Karlheinz Brandenburg and Mark Sandler, Email: 
42nd_chair@xxxxxxx

Semantic Audio refers to the research and development targeted toward 
content-based handling of digital audio recordings. The rapid evolution of 
digital audio technologies, audio compression, and streaming has 
significantly changed the way digital audio is created, processed, and 
consumed today. New audio content can be produced at a very low cost. Thus 
the sheer amount of available audio data grows more and more each day. 
Content-based management of audio recordings is essential to enable 
efficient use of these data. Aside from audio retrieval and recommendation 
techniques, the semantics of audio signals are also becoming more 
important in object-oriented audio coding, editing, and processing. Recent 
product releases demonstrate this, but many more innovative 
functionalities are becoming available.

This conference will give a broad overview of the state of the art and 
address many of the new scientific disciplines involved in this 
still-emerging field. Our purpose is to continue fostering this line of 
interdisciplinary research. This is reflected by the wide variety of 
invited speakers presenting at the conference. Talks will be given by 
Karlheinz Brandenburg, Dan Barry, Masataka Goto, Meinard Mueller, Christof 
Faller, Juergen Herre, Jay LeBoeuf, Matija Marolt, Markus Cremer, Bjoern 
Schuller, and Sebastian Stober. For an up-to-date list of the invited 
talks, please refer to the conference website at www.aes.org/events/42/.

Paper proposals should consist of title, abstract (60 to 120 words), and 
précis (500 to 750 words) to be submitted by February 11, 2011 at 
www.aes.org/42nd_authors, which you can visit for more information and 
complete instructions anytime after November 9, 2010. We welcome 
contributions in all relevant areas, including, but not limited to the 
topics listed below. The précis should describe the work performed, 
methods employed, conclusion(s), and significance of the paper. Titles and 
abstracts should follow the guidelines found at 
https://secure.aes.org/authors/guidelines/. Acceptance of papers will be 
determined by the 42th Conference paper committee based on an assessment 
of the abstract and the précis. Accepted authors will be notified by March 
15, 2011. Complete manuscripts of a maximum of 10 pages (3000 words) must 
be submitted by April 15, 2011.

Proposed topics for papers
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* Semantic audio production
* Semantic audio description and ontologies
* Audio signal processing and feature extraction
* Machine learning methods for audio content analysis
* Automatic tagging of audio signals
* Content-based audio retrieval
* Music information retrieval
* Music recommendation
* Music informatics
* User interfaces for audio management and retrieval
* Intelligent audio effects
* Audio restoration
* Games and entertainment
* Speech processing and analysis
* Automatic music transcription
* Audio source separation
* Industrial applications
* Semantic web

Schedule
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Proposal deadline (abstract and précis): 2011 February 11
Acceptance emailed: 2011 March 15
Paper deadline: 2011 April 15

Submission of papers
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Please submit proposed title, abstract, and précis at
www.aes.org/42nd_authors no later than 2011
February 11. If you have any questions, contact:

Papers cochairs
Christian Dittmar, Fraunhofer IDMT
Anssi Klapuri, Queen Mary University of London
Email: 42nd_papers@xxxxxxx