Subject: ISMIR 2007: 2nd Call For Submissions From: Dan Ellis <dpwe@xxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 13:19:58 -0500 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>[Apologies if you receive multiple copies -- DAn] CFP - ISMIR 2007 - 8th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval ISMIR 2007 - 2nd Call for Submissions Submission Deadline: Wednesday 11 April 2007 (23:59 GMT) Description and Introduction 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. Topics 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: content-based querying and retrieval automatic classification music recommendation and playlist generation fingerprinting and digital rights management score following and audio alignment transcription and annotation music summarization optical music recognition libraries, archives and digital collections database systems, indexing and query languages text and web mining compression and streaming modification and transformation of music data evaluation of MIR systems knowledge representation and metadata melody and motives harmony, chords and tonality rhythm, beat, tempo and form timbre, instrumentation and voice genre, style and mood similarity metrics user interfaces and user models emotion and aesthetics perception and cognition social, legal, ethical and business issues methodological issues and philosophical foundations Contribution requirements and guidelines 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: http://ismir2007.ismir.net/submissions.html Templates for LaTeX and MS Word are also available from this page. Submissions, which will be peer-reviewed, may be in the following categories: Long and Short Papers - Papers (long and short) should describe original research. - All submissions must be formatted according to the guidelines and templates available on the submission web page. - The page limit for long papers is 6 pages and for short papers 4 pages. Authors should use as much space as necessary, but no more. Based on the referees' reviews, the committee may ask the author to revise the paper to a different format for publication. - Papers should include a 150-200 word abstract. - Submission must consist of original contributions (not previously published and not currently being considered for publication elsewhere). - Accepted papers will be allocated a 20-minute (for long papers) or 15-minute (for short papers) presentation time at the ISMIR 2007 conference. - Authors of accepted papers will be asked to provide camera-ready copies of their papers. For each accepted paper, at least one author must register for the ISMIR 2007 conference prior to submission of the camera-ready version. - Any enquiries should be directed to: ismir2007-papers@xxxxxxxx Poster/Demo - 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. - Poster/demo submissions consist of a paper, which must be formatted according to the guidelines and templates available on the submission web page. - The page limit for poster/demo submissions is 2 pages. - Accepted posters/demos will be presented at a plenary poster/demo session during the ISMIR 2007 conference; the dimensions of the poster should not exceed ISO A0 (portrait) size - maximum height of 1189mm (46.81 inches) and maximum width of 841mm (33.11 inches). - Authors are encouraged to bring laptop computers or other appropriate equipment, to supplement their presentations. No extra equipment will be provided. - Accepted posters/demos will also be allocated up to 2 pages for the written paper in the ISMIR 2007 proceedings. - Authors of accepted poster/demo submissions will be asked to provide camera-ready copies of their papers. - For each accepted poster/demo, at least one author has to register for the ISMIR 2007 conference prior to submission of the camera-ready version. - Any enquiries should be directed to: ismir2007-papers@xxxxxxxx Tutorials 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: - An outline of the tutorial content - The intended and expected audience - Short biography of the presenter(s) - Any special requirements The document should be sent as a pdf attachment via email to: ismir2007-tutorials@xxxxxxxx Panels 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 topic and issues to be discussed, if possible formulated as a provocative question - A short listing of pro and con arguments - Short biographies of the moderator and panelists - Any special requirements The document should be sent as a pdf attachment via email to: ismir2007-panels@xxxxxxxx Exhibits and Bookstore 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@xxxxxxxx regarding the ISMIR bookstore and/or exhibition space. Important Dates Submission of papers, posters, tutorials, panels: 11 Apr 2007 Notification of acceptance: 08 Jun 2007 Camera-ready submissions: 29 Jun 2007 Requests for exhibitor space: 03 Aug 2007 ISMIR 2007: 23-27 Sep 2007 We look forward to seeing you in Vienna! General Chairs: Gerhard Widmer, Johannes Kepler University / Austrian Research Inst. for AI Andreas Rauber, Vienna University of Technology Stephen Downie, University of Illinois Programme Chairs: Simon Dixon, Queen Mary, University of London David Bainbridge, University of Waikato Programme Committee: Michael Casey, Goldsmiths College, University of London Elaine Chew, University of Southern California Roger Dannenberg, Carnegie Mellon University Stephen Downie, University of Illinois Dan Ellis, Columbia University Ichiro Fujinaga, McGill University Masataka Goto, National Inst. of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology Ozgur Izmirli, Conneticut College Anssi Klapuri, Tampere University of Technology Paul Lamere, Sun Microsystems Kjell Lemstrom, University of Helsinki Connie Mayer, University of Maryland Mark Sandler, Queen Mary, University of London Xavier Serra, Universitat Pompeu Fabra George Tzanetakis, Victoria University