1. Introduction to ISMIR/MIREX
J.-S. Roger Jang （張智星）
Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR) Lab
CSIE Dept, National Taiwan Univ.
2018/4/12

2. ISMIR Conference Title Hosted by ISMIR (incorporated in 2008)
Intl. Symposium on Music Information Retrieval ( )
Intl. Society for Music Information Retrieval (since 2008)
Hosted by ISMIR (incorporated in 2008)
Website:
Free download of all papers

3. Ranking of ISMIR (1/2) 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!

4. 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?
&vq=multimedia+|+music+|+acoustics+|+acoustical+|+audio

5. ISMIR Venues (1/2) ISMIR 2017, 23-28 October 2014, Suzhou (China)
ISMIR 2016, 7-11 August 2016, New York (USA)
ISMIR 2015, October 2015, Malaga (Spain)
ISMIR 2014, October 2014, Taipei (Taiwan)
ISMIR 2013, 4-8 November 2013, Curitiba (Brazil)
ISMIR 2012, 8-12 October 2012, Porto (Portugal)
ISMIR 2011, October 2011, Miami (Florida)
ISMIR 2010, 9-13 August, 2010, Utrecht (Netherlands)
ISMIR 2009, October 2009, Kobe (Japan)
ISMIR 2008, September 2008, Philadelphia (USA)
ISMIR 2007, September 2007, Vienna (Austria)
ISMIR 2006, 8-12 October 2006, Victoria, BC (Canada)
ISMIR 2005, September 2005, London (UK)
ISMIR 2004, October 2004, Barcelona (Spain)
ISMIR 2003, October 2003, Baltimore, Maryland (USA)
ISMIR 2002, October 2002, Paris (France)
ISMIR 2001, October 2001, Bloomington, Indiana (USA)
ISMIR 2000, October 2000, Plymouth, Massachusetts (USA)

6. ISMIR Venues (2/2)

7. ISMIR Growth:

8. MIREX Title Facts Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange
Major event of ISMIR since 2005
Hosted by Prof. Stephen Downie at UIUC
Gallery of state-of-the-art approaches for MIR
Website:

9. Tasks at MIREX Audio classification via training/test
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

10. MIREX Task Categories Audio music Symbolic music Hybrid
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
Score following
Symbolic music
Symbolic melodic similarity
Hybrid
Query by singing/humming
Query by tapping

11. MIREX Participation Total Runs: 2397! 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 10 13
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 31 32 35 42 55
152
156
109
116
108
337
312
302
328
360
Total Runs: 2397!

12. More about MIREX
“Ten Years of MIREX: Reflections, Challenges and Opportunities” by Stephen Downie
Paper:
Video:

13. ISMIR-2014 ISMIR-2014 at Grand Hotel, Taipei 15th ISMIR & 10th MIREX
Website:
225 attendees from 27 countries:

14. 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