International Society for Music Information Retrieval explained

The International Society for Music Information Retrieval
Type:Non-profit organization
Founded Date:2008
Location:Canada
Origins:International Symposium for Music Information Retrieval
Area Served:Worldwide
Focus:Music Information Retrieval (MIR)
Method:Conferences, publications

The International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) is an international forum for research on the organization of music-related data. It started as an informal group steered by an ad hoc committee in 2000[1] which established a yearly symposium - whence "ISMIR", which meant International Symposium on Music Information Retrieval. It was turned into a conference in 2002 while retaining the acronym. ISMIR was incorporated in Canada on July 4, 2008.[2]

Purpose

Given the tremendous growth of digital music and music metadata in recent years, methods for effectively extracting, searching, and organizing music information have received widespread interest from academia and the information and entertainment industries. The purpose of ISMIR is to provide a venue for the exchange of news, ideas, and results through the presentation of original theoretical or practical work. By bringing together researchers and developers, educators and librarians, students and professional users, all working in fields that contribute to this multidisciplinary domain, the conference also serves as a discussion forum, provides introductory and in-depth information on specific domains, and showcases current products.

As the term Music Information Retrieval (MIR) indicates, this research is motivated by the desire to provide music lovers, music professionals and music industry with robust, effective and usable methods and tools to help them locate, retrieve and experience the music they wish to have access to. MIR is a truly interdisciplinary area, involving researchers from the disciplines of musicology, cognitive science, library and information science, computer science, electrical engineering and many others.

Annual conferences

Since its inception in 2000, ISMIR has been the world’s leading forum for research on the modelling, creation, searching, processing and use of musical data. Researchers across the globe meet at the annual conference conducted by the society. It is known by the same acronym as the society, ISMIR. Following is the list of conferences held by the society.

Year Location Date proceedings
ISMIR 2025 South Korea
ISMIR 2024 San Francisco (USA) 10-14 November 2024
ISMIR 2023 Milan (Italy) 5-9 November 2023 proceedings
ISMIR 2022 Bengaluru (India) 4-8 December 2022 proceedings
ISMIR 2021 online 8-12 November 2021 proceedings
ISMIR 2020 online 12-16 October 2020 proceedings
ISMIR 2019 Delft (The Netherlands) 4-8 November 2019 proceedings
ISMIR 2018 Paris (France) 23–27 September 2018 proceedings
ISMIR 2017 Suzhou (China) 23–27 October 2017 proceedings
ISMIR 2016 New York City (USA) 8–12 August 2016 proceedings
ISMIR 2015 Malaga (Spain) 26–30 October 2015 proceedings
ISMIR 2014 Taipei (Taiwan) 27–31 October 2014 proceedings
ISMIR 2013 Curitiba (Brazil) 4–8 November 2013 proceedings
ISMIR 2012 Porto (Portugal) 8–12 October 2012 proceedings
ISMIR 2011 Miami (USA) 24–28 October 2011 proceedings
ISMIR 2010 Utrecht (The Netherlands) 9–13 August 2010 proceedings
ISMIR 2009 Kobe (Japan) 26–30 October 2009 proceedings
ISMIR 2008 Philadelphia (USA) 14–18 September 2008 proceedings
ISMIR 2007 Vienna (Austria) 23–30 September 2007 proceedings
ISMIR 2006 Victoria, BC (Canada) 8–12 October 2006 proceedings
ISMIR 2005 London (UK) 11–15 September 2005 proceedings
ISMIR 2004 Barcelona (Spain) 10–15 October 2004 proceedings
ISMIR 2003 Baltimore, Maryland (USA) 26–30 October 2003 proceedings
ISMIR 2002 Paris (France) 13–17 October 2002 proceedings
ISMIR 2001 Bloomington, Indiana (USA) 15–17 October 2001 proceedings
ISMIR 2000 Plymouth, Massachusetts (USA) 23–25 October 2000 proceedings

The official webpage provides up-to-date information on past and future conferences and provides access to all past websites and to the cumulative database of all papers, posters and tutorials presented at these conferences. An overview of all papers published at ISMIR can be found at DBLP.

Research areas and topics

The following list gives an overview of the main research areas and topics that are within the scope of Music Information Retrieval.

MIR data and fundamentals

Methodology

Domain knowledge

Musical features and properties

Music processing

Application

MIREX

The Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange (MIREX) is an annual evaluation campaign for MIR algorithms, coupled to the ISMIR conference. Since it started in 2005, MIREX has fostered advancements both in specific areas of MIR and in the general understanding of how MIR systems and algorithms are to be evaluated.[3] MIREX is to the MIR community what the Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) is to the text information retrieval community: A set of community-defined formal evaluations through which a wide variety of state-of-the-art systems, algorithms and techniques are evaluated under controlled conditions. MIREX is managed by the International Music Information Retrieval Systems Evaluation Laboratory (IMIRSEL) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).[4]

Related conferences

Related journals

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://www.ismir.net/texts/Byrd02.html Donald Byrd and Michael Fingerhut: The History of ISMIR - A Short Happy Tale. D-Lib Magazine, Vol. 8 No. 11
  2. http://www.ismir.net/ISMIR-Letters-Patent.pdf ISMIR Letters Patent. Canada, July 4, 2008.
  3. Downie. J. Stephen. West. Kris . Ehmann. Andreas F.. Vincent. Emmanuel. The 2005 Music Information retrieval Evaluation Exchange (MIREX 2005): Preliminary Overview. Proceedings of the International Conference on Music Information Retrieval. 2005. 320–323.
  4. Web site: Downie. J. Stephen. The International Music Information Retrieval Systems Evaluation Laboratory (IMIRSEL) Project. University of Illinois. 22 April 2016.