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Introduction to ISMIR/MIREX

• J.-S. Roger Jang (???)
• Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR) Lab
• CSIE Dept, National Taiwan Univ.
• http//mirlab.org/jang

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ISMIR Conference

• Title
• Intl. Symposium on Music Information Retrieval
  (2000-2007)
• Intl. Society for Music Information Retrieval
  (since 2008)
• Hosted by ISMIR (incorporated in 2008)
• Website http//ismir.net
• Free download of all papers

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Ranking of ISMIR (1/2)
In 2014!

• Ranking by Microsoft Academic Search
• 100/2710 3.7
• Category
• Computer Science
• Based on last 10 years
• Ranking criterion Citation
• No. 1 in music related conference!

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Ranking of ISMIR (2/2)
In 2014!

• Search criterion for Google Scholar
• what are the most cited publication venues for
  audio or acoustics or music or multimedia?

http//scholar.google.co.uk/citations?hlenview_o
psearch_venues vqmultimediamusicacoustics
acousticalaudio
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ISMIR Venues (1/2)

• ISMIR 2017, 23-28 October 2014, Suzhou (China)
• ISMIR 2016, 7-11 August 2016, New York (USA)
• ISMIR 2015, 26-30 October 2015, Malaga (Spain)
• ISMIR 2014, 27-31 October 2014, Taipei (Taiwan)
• ISMIR 2013, 4-8 November 2013, Curitiba (Brazil)
• ISMIR 2012, 8-12 October 2012, Porto (Portugal)
• ISMIR 2011, 24-28 October 2011, Miami (Florida)
• ISMIR 2010, 9-13 August, 2010, Utrecht
  (Netherlands)
• ISMIR 2009, 26-30 October 2009, Kobe (Japan)
• ISMIR 2008, 14-18 September 2008, Philadelphia
  (USA)
• ISMIR 2007, 23-30 September 2007, Vienna
  (Austria)
• ISMIR 2006, 8-12 October 2006, Victoria, BC
  (Canada)
• ISMIR 2005, 11-15 September 2005, London (UK)
• ISMIR 2004, 10-15 October 2004, Barcelona (Spain)
• ISMIR 2003, 26-30 October 2003, Baltimore,
  Maryland (USA)
• ISMIR 2002, 13-17 October 2002, Paris (France)
• ISMIR 2001, 15-17 October 2001, Bloomington,
  Indiana (USA)
• ISMIR 2000, 23-25 October 2000, Plymouth,
  Massachusetts (USA)

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ISMIR Venues (2/2)
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ISMIR Growth 2000-2009
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MIREX

• Title
• Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange
• Facts
• Major event of ISMIR since 2005
• Hosted by Prof. Stephen Downie at UIUC
• Gallery of state-of-the-art approaches for MIR
• Website http//www.music-ir.org/mirex

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Tasks at MIREX
Quiz!

• Audio classification via training/test
• Artist, genre, mood, composer
• Cover song identification
• Singing voice separation
• Audio melody extraction
• Audio fingerprinting
• Onset detection
• Tempo estimation
• Beat tracking
• Chord estimation

• Query by singing/humming
• Query by tapping
• Symbolic melodic similarity
• Audio structural segmentation
• Audio tagging
• Audio key detection
• Scoring following (real-time audio to score
  alignment)
• Multiple fundamental frequency estimation
  tracking

Quiz about app. scenarios of score following
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MIREX Task Categories

• Audio music
• High-level feature identification
• Singing voice separation
• Melody extraction
• Onset detection
• Beat tracking
• Tempo extraction
• Key detection
• Chord estimation
• Multiple fundamental frequency estimation
  tracking
• Audio structural segmentation
• Classification
• Genre, mood, artist, composer
• Retrieval
• Audio fingerprinting
• Cover song identification
• Tagging
• Audio music similarity and retrieval
• Alignment

• Symbolic music
• Symbolic melodic similarity
• Hybrid
• Query by singing/humming
• Query by tapping

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MIREX Participation
  2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Datasets 10 13 12 18 26
Individuals 82 50 73 84 138
Runs 86 92 122 169 289
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
Datasets 31 32 35 42 55
Individuals 152 156 109 116 108
Runs 337 312 302 328 360
Total Runs 2397!
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More about MIREX

• Ten Years of MIREX Reflections, Challenges and
  Opportunities by Stephen Downie
• Paper http//www.terasoft.com.tw/conf/ismir2014/p
  roceedings/T119_342_Paper.pdf
• Video http//www.camdemy.com/media/16476

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ISMIR-2014

• ISMIR-2014 at Grand Hotel, Taipei
• 15th ISMIR 10th MIREX
• Website http//ismir2014.ismir.net
• 225 attendees from 27 countries

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ISMIR-2014

• Whats so different about ISMIR-2014?
• Everything open for free download
• All papers and slides (for both oral poster)
• Videos (for oral presentations)
• Quality conference package
• One/half-day tours sponsored
• by ???