AdMIRe 2011: 3rd International Workshop on Advances in Music Information Research In conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), Barcelona, Spain Date of the Workshop: July 15, 2011
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The International
Workshop on Advances in Music Information Research (AdMIRe) serves
as a forum for
theoretical and practical discussions of cutting edge research in the
fields of Web mining for music information extraction, retrieval, and
recommendation as well as in mobile applications and services. Research
on multimodal
extraction, retrieval, and
presentation with a focus on
the music and
audio domain is especially welcome. So are submissions
addressing
concrete implementations of systems and services by both academic
institutions and industrial companies. |
2011-08-03: Photos and best
paper award updated. |
2011-06-28: Details on the keynote published. |
2011-05-12: Program updated. |
2011-05-04: Early bird registration
(for ICME and AdMIRe) ends on May, 23. |
2011-04-27: Preliminary program
published. |
2011-04-26: Workshop date (July
15) fixed, preliminary program published. |
2011-02-21: Deadline extension to March 1. |
2011-01-07: Submission system opened. |
2010-11-15: Important Dates & CfP updated. |
2010-09-22: AdMIRe 2011 Web page
set up. |
Music information research has been
a fast growing field of research during
the past decade. In traditional content-based MIR, music-related
information
were extracted from the audio signal using signal processing
techniques. These methods, however, cannot capture semantic information
that is not encoded in the audio signal, but nonetheless essential to
many consumers, e.g., the meaning of the lyrics of a song or the
political motivation or background of a singer. In recent years, the emergence of various Web 2.0 platforms and services dedicated to the music and audio domain, like last.fm, MusicBrainz, or echonest, has provided novel and powerful, albeit noisy, sources for high level, semantic information on music artists, albums, songs, and others. The abundance of such information provided by the power of the crowd can therefore contribute to music information research and development considerably. On the other hand, the wealth of newly available, semantically meaningful information offered on Web 2.0 platforms also poses new challenges, e.g., dealing with the huge amount and the noisiness of this kind of data, various user biases, hacking, or the cold start problem. Another recent trend, not at last addressable to platforms like Apple's iPhone or Google's Android, are intelligent user interfaces to access the large amounts of music usually available on today's mobile music players. Mobile devices that offer high speed Web access allow for even more music to be consumed via Web services. Dealing with these vast amounts of music requires intelligent services on mobile devices that provide, for example, personalized and context-aware music recommendations. The current emergence and confluence of these challenges make this an interesting field for researchers and industry practitioners alike. |
Technical Program
Department of
Sonology, Higher Music School
of Catalonia (ESMUC), Barcelona, Spain
and Music Technology Group, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain |
From MIR to MIR through
three ages and a paradigm shift Abstract: In this talk I will present and discuss a personal view of MIR, as a multidisciplinary endeavor that has passed through 3 different stages in its decade of existence. After defining its object of study and criticizing its current situation, I will argue that time has arrived for a paradigm shift towards doing use-inspired basic research where the focus on "information" shifts towards "interaction". Under this shifted perspective some future research questions and challenges will be outlined. Biography: Perfecto Herrera received a degree in psychology from the University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, in 1987. He was with that University as a software developer and as assistant professor. His further studies focused on sound engineering, audio postproduction, and computer music. He has been working with the Music Technology Group, (UPF) since its inception in 1996, first as responsible for the sound laboratory/studio, then as a researcher. He worked in the MPEG-7 standardization initiative from 1999 to 2001. Then, he collaborated in the EU-IST-funded CUIDADO project, contributing to the research and development of tools for indexing and retrieving music and sound collections. This work was somehow continued and expanded as scientific coordinator for the Semantic Interaction with Music Audio Contents (SIMAC) project, again funded by the EU-IST. He is currently the Head of the Department of Sonology, Higher Music School of Catalonia (ESMUC), where he teaches music technology and psychoacoustics. His main research interests are music content processing, classification, and music perception and cognition. |
The Call for Papers is available as HTML and as PDF. |
AdMIRe
2011 solicits regular
technical papers of up to 6
pages following the ICME
author guidelines. The
proceedings of
the workshop
will be published as
part of the IEEE ICME 2011
main conference proceedings and will be
indexed by IEEE Xplore.
Papers
must be original
and not submitted to or accepted by any other
conference or journal. Moreover, we will seek opportunities to publish
extended versions of particularly
outstanding
papers in a journal related to the field. All submissions to this workshop will be peer-reviewed by at least three Program Committee members. The review process will be double-blind. |
Topics of Interest
Music Information Systems |
Multimodal User Interfaces |
Context-aware Music Applications |
User Modeling and Personalization |
Social Networks and Collaborative Tagging in the Music and Audio Domain |
Web Mining and Information Extraction in the Music Domain |
Combination of Web-based and Signal-based Information Extraction Methods |
Mining and Analysis of Music Video Clips |
Mining and Analysis of Music-Related Images / Artwork |
Music Recommendation |
Semantic Web, Linking Open Data and Open Web Services for the Music and Audio Domain |
Ontologies, Semantics and Reasoning in the Music and Audio Domain |
Similarity Measurement |
Evaluation, Mining of Ground Truth and Data Collections |
Music Information Retrieval, Services, and Applications for Mobile Devices |
Music Indexing and Retrieval Techniques |
Exploration and Discovery in Large Music Collections |
Multimodal Semantic Content Analysis |
Full Paper Submission | March 1, 2011 |
Notification of Results | April 10, 2011 |
Camera Ready Submission | April 22, 2011 |
Program Chairs
Markus Schedl | Department of Computational Perception, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria |
Peter Knees | Department of Computational Perception, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria |
Òscar Celma | Barcelona Music and Audio Technologies, Barcelona, Spain |
Publicity Chair
Noam Koenigstein | School of Electrical Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel |
Program Committee
Markus
Schedl Department of Computational Perception Johannes Kepler University (JKU) Linz Altenberger Str. 69, A-4040 Linz, Austria Tel:
+43 732 2468 1512 |