We are pleased let you know that 2014 ISMIR (The 15th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval Conference) will be held in Taipei, Taiwan. The date is Oct. 27 to 31, 2014, the venue is the Grand Hotel.

ISMIR 2014 will feature tutorials, oral and poster presentations, a late-breaking/demo session, and a music program. We welcome submissions for all categories. All research papers will go through a double-blind review and selection process with at least three reviewers per submission. For details, see http://ismir2014.ismir.net.

ISMIR 2014 solicits contributions to the fields of music information retrieval, including but not limited to the following topics:

‧ content-based query and retrieval
‧ database systems, indexing and query
‧ fingerprinting and digital right management
‧ music transcription and annotation
‧ music signal processing
‧ symbolic music processing
‧ music sound source separation
‧ score following and music synchronization
‧ optical music recognition
‧ melody and motives
‧ rhythm, beat, tempo
‧ structure segmentation and analysis
‧ harmony, chords and tonality
‧ timbre, instrumentation and voice
‧ performance analysis
‧ music synthesis and transformation
‧ computational musicology ‧ music perception and cognition
‧ computational ethnomusicology
‧ emotion, mood, affection
‧ MIR applications
‧ genre, style and mood analysis
‧ similarity metrics
‧ music summarization
‧ user interfaces & interaction
‧ user modeling
‧ music recommendation
‧ playlist generation
‧ text and web mining
‧ social tags and metadata
‧ libraries, archives and digital collections
‧ evaluation and annotation
‧ aesthetics
‧ music and gaming