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MIREX 2006 Submission Instructions

The MIREX 2006 Submission Instructions page is now up. The URL to the MIREX 2006 Submission System will be placed at the bottom of the MIREX 2006 Submission Instructions page (to encourage reading of this important document).

Andreas Ehmann has created another must-read submission-related document: Best Coding Practices for MIREX.

MIREX 2006 at ISMIR 2006

• MIREX 2006 Poster Session: Wednesday, 11 October 2006, during the lunch/poster session from 12:00-14:00.
• MIREX Results and Planning Plenary: The plenary results and planning meeting will be held Thursday, 12 October 2006 in the afternoon after lunch so we can be more flexible with timing and the meeting can stretch longer as necessary. I suspect that we could easily go for quite some time as we really need to discuss such important issues as organizational structures and the increasingly important "lack of training/testing/ground-truth" data issue.

MIREX 2006 Preliminary Timelines

• 24 July 2006: Submission System Opened: Code and First-Pass Extended Abstract Submissions
• 25 July 2006 through early September: Run evalutions (Task-specific deadlines TBA)
• 25 September 2006: Revised Abstracts Due (Tentative, depends on printing arrangements, could be earlier or later)

SPECIAL COMMENT ABOUT DEADLINES

This year, two tasks, Audio Music Similarity and Retrieval and Symbolic Melodic Similarity will require post-run human evaluations. Therfore we are going to press hard to have the running phases of these two tasks completed by 21 August 2006 (subject to some possible minor shifting). It is also important to note that both these tasks MUST HAVE each entrant run before we can move on to the human evaluation phase (i.e., no stragglers). We will be able to extend the running of the other contests later into August and early September as these involve automatic evaluation procedures and no dependencies across systems.

MIREX 2006 Evaluation Tasks

As of 24 July 2006, these are the tasks that we plan to run as part of MIREX 2006

• Audio Beat Tracking
• Audio Melody Extraction
• Audio Music Similarity and Retrieval
• Audio Cover Song
• Audio Onset Detection
• Audio Tempo Extraction
• QBSH: Query-by-Singing/Humming
• Score Following
• Symbolic Melodic Similarity

MIREX 2005 and 2006 Wikis

This is the new wiki for MIREX 2006. The wiki for MIREX 2005 is still available at https://www.music-ir.org/mirex2005/. You can interlink between the 2005 and 2006 wikis using 2005: prefix on links to link to pages in MIREX2005.

Ideas for MIREX 2006 from MIREX 2005

Below are some ideas pilfered from the MIREX 2005 competition. As of 18 July 2006, we will NOT be running these tasks as part of MIREX 2006. We have established a 28 July 2006 DROP DEAD deadline for notifying us at IMIRSEL that at least 3 participants (representing different 3 different algorithms) are planning on participating in the running of one of these tasks.

• Audio Genre Classification
• Audio Drum Detection
• Melody Transcription from Monophonic Audio Recordings (it is NOT the same as melody extraction)
• Audio Singer Identification
• Audio and Symbolic Key Finding
• Symbolic Genre Classification

Task descriptions from MIREX 2005

• 2005:Audio Artist Identification
• 2005:Audio Drum Detection
• 2005:Audio Genre Classification
• 2005:Audio Melody Extraction
• 2005:Audio Onset Detection
• 2005:Audio Tempo Extraction
• 2005:Audio and Symbolic Key Finding
• 2005:Symbolic Genre Classification
• 2005:Symbolic Melodic Similarity

--Admin 13:51, 21 July 2006 (CDT)