CFP: AMR 2009 - 7th International Workshop on Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval (Madrid)

7TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON ADAPTIVE MULTIMEDIA RETRIEVAL

UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE EDUCACION A DISTANCIA, MADRID, SPAIN

24 - 25 SEPTEMBER 2009

CALL FOR PAPERS

DEADLINE: 20 JULY 2009

http://cabrillo.lsi.uned.es/nlp/amr2009/

The main reasons for undesired steps in multimedia search are on the one hand, the users' difficulty in specifying their interests in the form of a well-defined query, and on the other hand, the problem of extracting relevant (semantic) features from the multimedia objects. To improve today's retrieval tools and thus the overall satisfaction of a user, it is necessary to develop new techniques able to support the user in the interactive retrieval process. Currently, especially Multimedia Interaction and Dialogue Management techniques as well as affect detection for multimedia content and others are currently promising research directions.

The Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval workshop aims to bring researchers, practitioners and companies with specific focus on existing and novel techniques into the field of multimedia retrieval. The goal of this workshop is therefore to intensify the exchange of ideas, to provide an overview of current activities in this area and to point out connections between multimedia, retrieval and artificial intelligence

research communities.

Topics of interest:

The workshop focuses especially on researchers that are working on: feature extraction techniques for multimedia, computer linguistic approaches, (dynamic) data analysis methods, interactive machine learning and visualisation methods as well as user interface design.

Therefore, contributions to the workshop should focus on, but are not

limited to:

- Multimedia retrieval systems (for text, image, audio, video and mixed-media)

- Theoretical foundations of multimedia retrieval and mining

- Intelligent multimedia data modelling, indexing and structure extraction

- Adaptive Hypermedia and web based systems

- Metadata for multimedia retrieval

- Multimedia and multi-modal mining

- Semantic content analysis for multimedia

- Multimedia Interaction and Dialogue Management

- Sentiment Analysis and Affect Detection for Multimedia Content

- Soft Computing in Multimedia Information Retrieval

- Adaptive query languages

- Similarity measures (especially user adaptive measures)

- User and preference modelling (including feedback models)

- Methods for adaptive data visualisation and user interfaces

Important Dates:

July 20th, 2009 Deadline for paper submission

August 17th, 2009 Notification of acceptance/rejection

September 4th, Final paper submission

September 7th, 2009 Early registration deadline

Submissions must be original and must not have been submitted for publication elsewhere. Submissions should be formatted according to Springer LNCS style (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). Papers should have about 10 pages but should not exceed 15 pages and should be submitted electronically in PDF or postscript format.

Committee: (cf. http://cabrillo.lsi.uned.es/nlp/amr2009/)

Program Chairs:

Marcin Detyniecki CNRS, LIP6, Paris, France

Ana Garcia-Serrano UNED, Spain

Andreas Nuernberger University of Magdeburg, Germany

Further details can be found on the Web page of the workshop

http://cabrillo.lsi.uned.es/nlp/amr2009/

CFP: Workshop on Machine Learning and Music (Slovenia)

WORKSHOP ON MACHINE LEARNING AND MUSIC

ECML/PKDD-09 EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON MACHINE LEARNING AND PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY IN DATABASES

BLED, SLOVENIA

7 - 11 SEPTEMBER 2009

CALL FOR PAPERS

http://www.iua.upf.es/~rramirez/MML09/

This conference is taking place on September 7, 2009, as part of ECML/PKDD-09, European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases

http://www.ecmlpkdd2009.net/

Research on machine learning and music is gaining increasing popularity due to the rapid expansion of music in audio formats, increasing availability of social music tagging data, and the ongoing musicological interest in mining of symbolic music data. As complexity of the problems investigated by researchers on this area increases, there is a need to develop new algorithms and methods to solve these problems. Machine learning has proved to provide efficient solutions to many music-related problems. The goal of MML 2008 is to bring together researchers who are using machine learning in musical applications, providing the opportunity to promote, present and discuss ongoing work in the area. The workshop is planned to last one full day, and will feature paper presentations, panel discussions and open discussions.

We invite contributions describing machine learning approaches to music processing including, but not limited to:

Sound synthesis and analysis

Pattern discovery in music

Computational musicology

Folk song analysis and classification

Music genre classification

Music analysis

Music Information Retrieval

Knowledge Representation and Computational Models

Psychoacoustics and Music Perception

Cognitive Modeling

Adaptive Systems and Music Education

Algorithmic Composition

Interactive Performance Systems

Digital Audio Signal Processing

Submissions:

Papers of 4-6 printed pages must be in English and must be formatted according to the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence guidelines. Authors instructions and style files can be found in the workshop webpage. Papers should include author names, affiliations, contact information, and an abstract of 70-120 words. Papers will be reviewed by at least two members of the Workshop Committee. Contributions should be in PDF format and submitted to the workshop email address mml@iua.upf.edu.

Dates:

Submission deadline: June 14, 2009.

Acceptance notification: June 30, 2009.

Final versions due: July 8, 2009.

Workshop: September 7, 2009.

Organizing Committee:

Rafael Ramirez (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)

Darrell Conklin (City University London, UK)

Christina Anagnostopoulou (University of Athens, Greece)

José Manuel Iñesta (Alicante University, Spain)

MML09 webpage

http://www.iua.upf.edu/~rramirez/MML09

CFP: 25th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (Switzerland)

25th ACM SYMPOSIUM ON APPLIED COMPUTING
SIERRE, SWITZERLAND
21 - 26 MARCH 2010
CALL FOR PAPERS
http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2010/

Important Dates
September 08, 2009: Full Paper Submission
October 19, 2009: Notification of paper acceptance/rejection
November 02, 2009: Camera-ready copies of accepted papers

For the past twenty-four years the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) has been a primary and international forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers and application developers to gather, interact and present their work. The ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP) is the sole sponsor of SAC. The conference proceedings are published by ACM and are also available online through ACM's Digital Library.

The 25th Annual SAC meeting will be held March 2010 in Sierre, Switzerland, and is hosted by the University of Applied Sciences, Western Switzerland (HES-SO) and Ecole Polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). Visit the SAC 2010 home page for further information: http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2010/

Special Track on Information Access and Retrieval (SAC-IAR)
The research on information access and retrieval aims at modelling, designing, implementing and evaluating systems that provide a fast and effective content-based access to a large amount of multimedia information. One main issue of such systems is to estimate the relevance of documents to user information needs. This is a very hard and complex task due to several reasons that a large volume of research has attempted to analyse and tackle, among which the subjective and multi-aspect nature of relevance. Information Retrieval (IR) can be considered as the first historical research area aimed at defining systems for the automatic access to huge amounts of information (together with DBMSs whose main aim is to manage and access huge amounts of data). In the past 30 years, IR has grown well beyond its primary goals of indexing and searching textual documents in static bibliographic collections, and has moved away from the perception of being the narrow area of interest of librarians and information experts. With the expansion of the Internet and of the Web, other access techniques have been identified and developed, such as Recommender Systems and Information Filtering systems, Question Answering Systems, Meta-search engines, Geomap information services, and collaborative information retreieval services. Information access technologies and IR in particular, are currently being used in many different application contexts that go far beyond the initial scope of their design. The application of models and techniques proposed and tested in standard experimental contexts to new application areas is a very challenging task that we believe is worth of great attention by the researchers. Nowadays, research in information access includes document indexing, document classification and categorization, system architecture, user interfaces, information visualisation, query languages, topic detection, management of multi-lingual information, content indexing of audio-visual information, collaborative searching, etc.

This special track is the ninth edition in the context of SAC and is concerned with the theory, implementation and evaluation of information access and retrieval technologies to novel application areas and novel contexts.

We invite submission of original research contributions, and experimentations in emerging fields such as Geographic Information Retrieval, Collaborative search and retrieval, User Interfaces for information access, presentation, and exploration, information retreival on the Web.

The topics of interest include:
* (Multimedia) document clustering and categorization,
* (Multimodal) Interfaces for information access, presentation, and exploration,
* Flexible query languages,
* Topic detection and tracking
* Cross language retrieval,
* Content indexing of multimedia information,
* Information extraction and mining
* Modeling user context,
* Ontology based Information Retrieval Systems,
* Conceptual information retrieval
* Collaborative information searching and retrieval
* Spoken IR,
* (Mobile) Search engines and meta-search engines,
* Models of information access and retrieval,
* Applications of advanced information access and retrieval systems,
* (Multimedia and multimodal) information access and retrieval systems,
* Content-based and collaborative information filtering,
* Distributed information access and retrieval.

Track Chairs
Gabriella Pasi
Department of Informatics,Systems and Communication (DISCo),
University of Milano Bicocca, Milano, Italy
pasi@disco.unimib.it
Gloria Bordogna,
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, IDPA ,
Dalmine (BG), Italy.
gloria.bordogna@idpa.cnr.it

Guidelines for Submission:
Original papers from the above-mentioned or other related areas will be considered.
Submissions fall into the following categories:
Original and unpublished work
Reports of innovative computing applications in the arts, sciences, engineering, and business areas
Reports of successful technology transfer to new problem domains
Reports of industrial experience and demos of new innovative systems
Peer groups with expertise in the track focus area will blindly review submissions to that track. Each submitted paper will be reviewed by at least three referees. Accepted papers will be published in the annual conference proceedings. Submission guidelines can be found on SAC 2010 Website. Papers should be submitted per track using the provided automated submission system via the website: eCMS site http://sac.cs.iupui.edu/SAC2010/
Submission of the same paper to multiple tracks is not allowed. For more information please visit the SAC 2010 Website. Submissions must follow the template reported at the conference web site. Each paper can have a length of 5 pages according to the template, with a maximum of 3 extra pages in the camera ready format. There will be a charge of 80USD per extra page. extra page will be charged 80USD. Submissions should be printable on a standard printer on common paper formats, such as US letter and A4.
The author(s) name(s) and address(es) must NOT appear in the body of the paper, and
self-reference should be in the third person. This is to facilitate blind review. Notice that Papers that report the author names will not be sent to the reviews and will be rejected. Only the title should be shown at the first page without the author's information."

Special Track on: INFORMATION ACCESS AND RETRIEVAL
http://www.disco.unimib.it/go/Home/IAR-2010

CFP: AdMIRe: International Workshop on Advances in Music Information Research 2009 (San Diego)

AdMIRe: INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON ADVANCES IN MUSIC INFORMATION RESEARCH 2009
SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA
14 -16 DECEMBER 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS

http://www.cp.jku.at/conferences/admire2009/
In Conjunction with the IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia 2009

The International Workshop on Advances in Music Information Research (AdMIRe) 2009 will serve 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. Workshop papers will be official publications of IEEE, which will be included in IEEEXplore and also be printed as part of the conference proceedings.


MOTIVATION:
Music information retrieval (MIR) as a subfield of multimedia information retrieval has been a fast growing field of research during the past decade. In traditional MIR research, 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 Discogs, has been providing 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 MIR 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 and the corresponding services. 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.

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
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
Evaluation, Mining of Ground Truth and Data Collections
Music Indexing and Retrieval Techniques
Exploration and Discovery in Large Music Collections
Multimodal Semantic Content Analysis


ORGANIZERS:
Markus Schedl Department of Computational Perception,
Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria
Òscar Celma Barcelona Music and Audio Technologies,
Barcelona, Spain
Peter Knees Department of Computational Perception,
Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria
Tim Pohle Department of Computational Perception,
Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Jean-Julien Aucouturier Temple University, Japan Campus, Tokyo, Japan
Luke Barrington University of California, San Diego, CA, USA
Stephan Baumann German Research Center for AI, Kaiserslautern, Germany
Gijs Geleijnse Philips Research Laboratories, Eindhoven, the Netherlands
Emilia Gómez Music Technology Group, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
Fabien Gouyon Institute for Systems and Computer
Engineering of Porto, Porto, Portugal
Paul Lamere the echonest, Davis Square, Somerville, MA, USA
Elias Pampalk last.fm, London, UK
Jeremy Pickens FX Palo Alto Laboratory, Palo Alto, CA, USA
Yves Raimond BBC Audio & Music Interactive, London, UK
Andreas Rauber Department of Software Technology and
Interactive Systems, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria
Dominik Schnitzer Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Vienna, Austria
Douglas Turnbull Department of Computer Science, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA, USA
Gerhard Widmer Department of Computational Perception,
Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria

IMPORTANT DATES:
Full Paper Submission Deadline: July 20, 2009
Notification of Results: August 30, 2009
Camera Ready Submission: September 25, 2009

CFP: ISMIR 2009 (International Society for Music Information Retrieval, Japan)

ISMIR 2009- TENTH INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR MUSIC INFORMATION RETRIEVAL CONFERENCE

KOBE, HYOGO, JAPAN

26 - 30 OCTOBER 2009

CALL FOR PAPERS

http://ismir2009.ismir.net/

Important dates:

Submission of tutorial proposals: January 31, 2009

Submission of papers: May 8, 2009

Notification of paper acceptance: July 17, 2009

Camera-ready submissions: August 7, 2009

Submission of abstracts for late-breaking / demo: August 31, 2009

ISMIR 2009: October 26-30, 2009

The Tenth International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference will take place October 26-30, 2009 (Monday through Friday), in Kobe, Japan. Looking at the recent rapid growth of ISMIR conferences since its inception in 2000 and the expansion of the music

information retrieval (MIR) community, MIR people may no longer consider acronym MIR as "music information retrieval" in the strict sense, but rather think that MIR essentially fits "music information research" in a broad sense. Correspondingly, MIR also draws considerable attention from other research/application fields. ISMIR therefore aims to open a new horizon of the exchange and discussion of ideas, issues, results, and perspectives for people of widespread areas, such as representatives of academia, industry, entertainment, and education, including researchers, developers, educators, librarians, students, and professional users. Alongside presentations of original theoretical research and practical work, ISMIR provides introductory and in-depth tutorials, and a venue for the showcase of current MIR-related products and systems.

To foster MIR, every time previous ISMIR was held, we have been making attempts and learning from experiences. New changes would be introduced to ISMIR 2009, while some effective part of ISMIR 2008 would be inherited with minor revisions. What are inherited from ISMIR 2008 include:

* Rebuttal phase during paper selection,

* Uniform paper status for all accepted submissions, and

* Late breaking / demo session.

The topic areas and the emphasis on higher quality and wider interdisciplinary research and scholarship in all aspects of MIR remain unchanged. Novel and previously unpublished submissions are solicited in areas including, but not limited to, the following:

* content-based querying and retrieval

* database systems, indexing, and query

* fingerprinting and digital rights management

* transcription and annotation

* music signal processing

* score following and audio alignment

* optical music recognition

* melody and motives

* rhythm, beat, tempo, and form

* harmony, chords, and tonality

* timbre, instrumentation and voice

* performance analysis

* modification and transformation of music data

* computational musicology

* perception and cognition

* emotion and aesthetics

* applications of MIR to the performing arts and multimedia

* automatic classification

* genre, style, and mood

* similarity metrics

* music summarization

* user interfaces and user models

* music recommendation and playlist generation

* text and web mining

* knowledge representation, social tags, and metadata

* libraries, archives and digital collections

* evaluation and annotation issues

* methodological and philosophical issues

* social, legal, ethical, and business issues

In addition to research papers, we also solicit late-breaking / demo submissions, and proposals for tutorials, and exhibits. More details on each category are provided below.

Contribution requirements and guidelines

1. Papers

All papers will be peer-reviewed according to their novelty, technical content, presentation, and contribution to the overall balance of topics and disciplines represented at ISMIR 2009. Papers that introduce new topics and methods to MIR research are particularly welcome. Paper submissions should satisfy the following conditions:

* Formatting must comply to the guidelines and templates that will be

available on the submission web page (http://ismir2009.ismir.net/submission/ will be open in early-January).

* Submitted papers must be between 4 and 6 pages long.

* Papers should include a 150-200 word abstract.

* Submission must consist of original contributions (not previously published and not currently being considered for publication elsewhere).

* There is no limitation on the number of submissions per author.

* The rebuttal phase will take place during June 26th - July 3rd.

* Accepted papers will be designated either as poster-only presentations, or as oral talks without poster presentations.

* Authors of accepted papers will be asked to provide camera-ready copies of their papers.

* If accepted, authors are encouraged to bring laptop computers or other appropriate equipment to supplement their presentations.

* For each accepted paper, at least one author must register for the ISMIR 2009 conference prior to submission of the camera-ready version.

* Uniform paper status:

There will be no submission categories of papers. Judgement of acceptance will be made based purely on the paper quality relative to the other papers; all accepted papers will be allotted up to six pages in the proceedings. Although authors can indicate preference for oral or poster presentation upon submission, the program committee will decide the most effective way of presenation (oral presentation or poster presentation) based on the nature of the paper and interest to the broader MIR community as well as scheduling constraints. The presentation format has no relation to the reviewer judgment of paper quality and will be determined after the acceptance judgement. Poster authors are expected to give a 30-second presentation of their work as part of the "madness" session before each poster session.

* Awards:

ISMIR 2009 will have the best paper award, the best student paper award, and the presentation award (new). The presentation award will have two subcategories, oral and poster, which will be selected by votes collected during the conference.

2. Late-breaking / demo submissions

A special session during the ISMIR 2009 schedule (Tentatively, the morning of October 30) will be dedicated to:

(i) the presentation of preliminary results and ideas that are not yet fully formed nor systematically evaluated; and

(ii) the demonstration of applications that are of interest to the MIR community.

These late-breaking / demo submissions will not be reviewed and will not have associated papers on the proceedings. They have been assigned a late deadline (August 31). Submissions should be emailed to:ismir2009-demos@ismir.net as a pdf file containing the title, author(s) and affiliation(s), and a 100-200 word abstract outlining the work to be presented. Abstracts will be published online. Should there be more submissions than allowed by the available presentation

space, presentations that contribute to a balanced session will be given priority.

3. Tutorials

The first day of the conference (October 26) will consist of a parallel session of tutorials each concentrating on a single topic presented either at an introductory level or in depth, lasting about

3 hours (including a break). Submissions should consist of a 1-4 page abstract including:

- Title

- Outline of the tutorial content

- Intended and expected audience

- Short biography of the presenter(s)

- Any special requirements

- Contact information

The document should be sent as a pdf attachment via email to ismir2009-tutorials@ismir.net by January 31, 2009.

Acceptance/rejection decisions will be made by the ISMIR 2009 Conference Committee. The decision will depend on the criteria including relevance, suitability, originality, and expertise of the presenter(s). Acceptance/rejection of a proposal will be noticed before February 28, 2009.

4. Exhibits and Bookstore

Throughout ISMIR 2009, space will be available for publishers, software companies, booksellers, service providers, system vendors, and any other businesses interested in exhibiting their MIR-related products. They are invited to contact the program committee via email to ismir2009-exhibits@ismir.net regarding the ISMIR bookstore and/or exhibition space before August 31.

General Chairs:

Masataka Goto, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology

Ichiro Fujinaga, McGill University

Program Chairs:

George Tzanetakis, University of Victoria

Keiji Hirata, NTT Communication Science Laboratories