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ISMIR
2004
5th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval
Audiovisual Institute, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Barcelona, Spain
October 10-14, 2004
The annual ISMIR Conference is the first
established international forum for those involved in work
on accessing digital musical materials. It reflects the tremendous
growth of music-related data available either locally or remotely
through networks and the consequent need to search this content
and retrieve music and musical information efficiently and
effectively.
This area presents vast challenges for those
who need to organize and structure musical data, provide tools
to search and retrieve, and use these tools efficiently. Music
representation needs to be multi- dimensional and time-dependent;
audio data is voluminous, requiring particular care in storage
and transmission while preserving quality; the need for descriptive
information about what is musically significant addresses
a large spectrum of internal and external characteristics,
from acoustic to musicological and cultural features; intellectual
property rights issues (about what can be made available to
whom and how) are complex, involve a variety of individuals
and organizations, and vary from country to country.
All of these concerns are of interest to
education, academia, entertainment and industry. This conference
thus aims at providing a place for the exchange of news, issues
and results, by bringing together researchers and developers,
educators and librarians, students and professional users,
working in fields that contribute significantly to this multidisciplinary
domain, to present original theoretical or practical work
in peer-reviewed contributions (papers, posters). It will
also serve as a discussion forum (panels), provide introductory
and in-depth information in specific domains (tutorials),
and show current products (exhibits). |
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