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

[Anssi Klapuri <klap@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear colleagues, you are cordially invited to participate the
42nd AES Conference on Semantic Audio. Please note that the
paper submission deadline has been extended to March 13, 2011.

Important dates:
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Submission of full papers: 2011 March 13
Acceptance emailed by: 2011 April 15
Revised paper deadline: 2011 May 15

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          42nd AES Conference on Semantic Audio

         22nd - 24th July 2011, Ilmenau, Germany

      Cochairs: Karlheinz Brandenburg and Mark Sandler

           http://www.aes.org/conferences/42/

           ** Apologies for Cross Postings **

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, 
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/.

Proposed papers will be assessed through full paper review. Manuscripts
of maximum 10 pages (3000 words) are to be submitted by March 13, 2011
at www.aes.org/42nd_authors, which you can visit for more information and
complete instructions. We welcome contributions in all relevant areas,
including, but not limited to the topics listed below. The manuscript
should detail the problem statement, work performed, methods employed,
conclusion(s), and significance of the paper. Please follow the guidelines
found at https://secure.aes.org/authors/guidelines/. Acceptance of papers
will be determined by the 42nd Conference paper committee based on full
paper review. Accepted authors will be notified 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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Full paper submission deadline: 2011 March 13
Acceptance emailed by: 2011 April 15
Revised paper deadline: 2011 May 15

Submission of papers
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Please submit full papers at www.aes.org/42nd_authors.
If you have any questions, contact:

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