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| ISMIR | |
|---|---|
| Name | ISMIR |
| Caption | International Society for Music Information Retrieval logo |
| Formation | 2000 |
| Type | Learned society |
| Headquarters | International |
| Region served | Worldwide |
ISMIR
The International Society for Music Information Retrieval is a global professional society that promotes research, development, and education in music information retrieval. It brings together researchers, engineers, artists, and industry practitioners from institutions such as Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, Queen Mary University of London, and University of Tokyo. Conferences and workshops attract contributors from organizations including Google, Spotify, Apple Inc., Microsoft Research, and Sony Corporation.
The origins trace to early meetings and workshops influenced by work at Centre for Digital Music, IRCAM, Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange, European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, and projects supported by National Science Foundation and European Research Council. Foundational figures include researchers affiliated with Queen Mary University of London, McGill University, University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, New York University, and Princeton University. Early annual meetings rotated among venues such as Barcelona, Berlin, Tokyo, Philadelphia, and Paris. Influential collaborations linked initiatives at Berklee College of Music, Juilliard School, Royal College of Music, University of Oxford, and University of Cambridge.
The society is governed by an elected board with officers drawn from academic centers like Harvard University, Yale University, Columbia University, University of California, Los Angeles, and University of Michigan. Advisory committees have included members from European Broadcasting Union, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Deutsche Grammophon, Warner Music Group, and Universal Music Group. Governance practices reference standards used by Association for Computing Machinery, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, and other learned societies. Funding and partnerships often involve collaboration with funders such as Wellcome Trust, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, National Institutes of Health, and Royal Society.
Annual conferences feature plenaries, tutorials, and special sessions in venues like Royal Festival Hall, Carnegie Hall, Sydney Opera House, Messe Berlin, and Tokyo Big Sight. Keynotes have been delivered alongside presentations referencing work from groups at MIT Media Lab, Google Research, DeepMind, Facebook AI Research, and Alibaba Group. Satellite events include workshops co-located with International Conference on Machine Learning, Neural Information Processing Systems, Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, and International Society for Music Education. Summer schools and tutorials have partnered with European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, and Lisbon School of Music Technology.
Research spans audio signal processing pioneered in labs at Bell Labs, Fraunhofer Society, and NII Japan, music perception studies linked to Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, and machine learning approaches stemming from Carnegie Mellon University, University of Toronto, University College London, ETH Zurich, and Tsinghua University. Topics include melody extraction with methods from Johns Hopkins University, genre classification influenced by datasets from The Echo Nest, and recommender systems adopted by Pandora Radio, Deezer, and Last.fm. Contributions cite influences from artists and composers associated with Pierre Boulez, John Cage, Steve Reich, Igor Stravinsky, and Philip Glass via analysis projects. Cross-disciplinary work connects with projects at Google Arts & Culture, British Library, Library of Congress, Smithsonian Institution, and British Museum.
Competitions such as community challenges have featured tasks inspired by benchmarks from MIREX, datasets hosted by MusicBrainz, Million Song Dataset, and evaluations influenced by standards from IEEE. Prizes and recognitions have been awarded to contributors affiliated with University of Pennsylvania, Duke University, Northwestern University, UC Irvine, and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Student papers and demo awards have been presented at venues alongside honors recognizing work that later influenced products at Shazam Entertainment, SoundHound, SiriusXM, and Beatport.
Proceedings collect peer-reviewed papers from contributors at Springer, IEEE Xplore, and independent archives including preprints on arXiv. Key publication venues and editorial boards include editors from Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, MIT Press, and journals such as Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval, Journal of New Music Research, Computer Music Journal, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, and Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. Archival datasets and codebases are linked with repositories at GitHub, Zenodo, and institutional repositories at Cornell University Library.
The society has influenced industry standards used by MPEG, ITU, W3C, and AES (Audio Engineering Society), and fostered collaborations with cultural institutions like Royal Albert Hall, La Scala, Metropolitan Opera, Guggenheim Museum, and Tate Modern. Outreach includes partnerships with education programs at Royal Conservatory of Music, Conservatoire de Paris, Curtis Institute of Music, and community initiatives involving UNESCO and European Commission projects. Alumni and members have moved into roles at companies and institutions such as IBM Research, Netflix, Amazon Music, NVIDIA, and Adobe Inc., propagating techniques into consumer applications and archival projects.
Category:Music technology organizations