2025:Call for Challenges
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Call for Challenge Proposals
Starting with MIREX 2024, we invite the ISMIR community to propose new research challenges that address cutting-edge problems in Music Information Retrieval (MIR). These challenges should aim to push the boundaries of current research and foster innovation in the field.
What's new:
For MIREX 2025, all proposed challenges must have an assigned task captain responsible for evaluating participant submissions. Additionally, task captains may use proprietary datasets for evaluation.
Task Captain Responsibilities:
- Register on the MIREX Wiki and maintain a task description page.
- Collect submissions via the MIREX submission server (or provide customized submission instructions).
- Execute and evaluate the submissions.
- Report results to MIREX and create a results page on the MIREX Wiki.
- (Optional) Present a MIREX task captain poster at the Late-Breaking and Demo (LBD) session at ISMIR 2025.
Submission Format
A call for challenge proposal must contain the following content:
- Title
- Abstract
- Task description
- Significance of the task
- Evaluation criteria
- Datasets and resources provided
- Requirements for submission
Please submit a 2-4 page PDF to the MIREX organizing committee future-mirex@googlegroups.com. before the due date.
Deadlines
- Challenge proposals due: TBA
- Notification of acceptance: TBA
Contact Us
We look forward to receiving your innovative and impactful challenge proposals. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the MIREX organizing committee future-mirex@googlegroups.com.
MIREX 2025 Organizers:
- Junyan Jiang, New York University
- Akira Maezawa, Yamaha
- Ziyu Wang, New York University
- Yixiao Zhang, ByteDance
- Ruibin Yuan, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- J. Stephen Downie, University of Illinois
- Gus Xia, MBZUAI
