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Introduction to ISMIR/MIREX

J.-S. Roger Jang （張智星）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

(since 2000) 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)

Ranking by Microsoft Academic Search 100/2710 = 3.7% Category

Computer ScienceBased on last 10 years

Ranking criterion: Citation No. 1 in music related conference!

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Ranking of ISMIR (2/2)

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?hl=en&view_op=search_venues&vq=multimedia+|+music+|+acoustics+|+acoustical+|+audio

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ISMIR Venues

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

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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

Audio classification Artist, genre, mood, composer

Audio cover song identification (翻唱歌辨識 )

Audio tag classification Audio music similarity and

retrieval (音訊音樂相似度與檢索 )

Symbolic music similarity and retrieval (符號音樂相似度與檢索 )

Audio onset detection (音訊音樂啟始點偵測 )

Audio key detection Multiple fundamental frequency

estimation & tracking

Query by singing/humming （哼唱檢索）

Query by tapping Symbolic melodic similarity (符號音樂的單音音高相似度 )

Audio chord estimation Audio structural segmentation Audio tempo extraction (音訊音樂節奏抽取 )

Real-time audio to score Alignment (a.k.a score following) (樂譜對位 )

Audio beat tracking (音訊音樂節拍追蹤 )

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MIREX Participation

  2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

Datasets 10 13 12 18 26Individuals 82 50 73 84 138

Runs 86 92 122 169 289

2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

Datasets 31 32 35 42 55Individuals 152 156 109 116 108

Runs 337 312 302 328 360

Total Runs: 2397!

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2014 Participating Countries

Country # of Individuals Country # of Individuals Austria

22 Japan 10

Canada

2 Korea 10

China

9 Poland 3

Colombia

2 Portugal 4

Denmark

3 Spain 6

France

1 Sweden 2

Germany

5 Taiwan 6

Greece

6 United Kingdom

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India

3 United States 20

Ireland

1 Unknown 10

Italy

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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/proceedings/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

What’s 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 國貿局