The annual Conference of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) is the world's leading research forum on processing, searching, organizing and accessing music-related data. The revolution in music distribution and storage brought about by digital technology has fueled tremendous research activities and interests in academia as well as in industry. The ISMIR Conference reflects this rapid development by providing a meeting place for the discussion of MIR-related research, developments, methods, tools and experimental results. Its main goal is to foster multidisciplinary exchange by bringing together researchers and developers, educators and librarians, as well as students and professional users.

ISMIR 2012 will feature
introductory and in-depth tutorials
oral and poster presentations of research papers
invited talks reflecting the true interdisciplinary nature of MIR research
a late-break/demo session
a music programme


ISMIR 2012 welcomes paper submissions for oral or poster presentation in the (non-exclusive) areas of:

content-based querying and retrieval
database systems, indexing and query
fingerprinting and digital rights management
music transcription and annotation
music signal processing
sound source separation in music signals
score following, audio alignment and music synchronization
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
music perception and cognition
emotion and aesthetics
applications of MIR to the performing arts and multimedia
automatic classification
genre, style and mood analysis
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
applications to traditional/folk/ethnic music

To ensure a high quality of the contributions, all papers will go through a double-blind selection process with at least three reviewers per submission.