• MIR fundamentals and methodology:
• music signal processing;
• symbolic music processing;
• metadata, tags, linked data, and semantic web;
• lyrics and other textual data;
• web mining, and natural language processing;
• multimodality.
• Domain knowledge:
• representations of music;
• music acoustics;
• computational music theory and musicology;
• cognitive MIR;
• machine learning/artificial intelligence for music;
• computational ethnomusicology.
• Musical features and properties:
• melody and motives;
• harmony, chords and tonality;
• rhythm, beat, and tempo;
• structure, segmentation, and form;
• representations of music;
• timbre, instrumentation, and singing voice;
• musical style and genre;
• musical affect, emotion, and mood;
• expression and performative aspects of music.
• MIR tasks:
• sound source separation;
• music transcription and annotation;
• music generation;
• optical music recognition;
• alignment, synchronization, and score following;
• music summarization;
• music synthesis and transformation;
• fingerprinting;
• automatic classification;
• indexing and querying;
• pattern matching and detection;
• similarity metrics.
• Evaluation, datasets, and reproducibility:
• evaluation methodology;
• evaluation metrics;
• novel datasets and use cases;
• annotation protocols;
• reproducibility;
• MIR tasks.
• Philosophical and ethical discussions:
• philosophical and methodological foundations;
• legal and societal aspects of MIR;
• ethical issues related to designing and implementing MIR tools and technologies.
• Human-centered MIR:
• user behavior analysis and mining, user modeling;
• human-computer interaction;
• music interfaces and services;
• personalization;
• user-centered evaluation.
• Applications:
• digital libraries and archives;
• music retrieval systems;
• music recommendation and playlist generation;
• music and health, well-being, and therapy;
• music training and education;
• music composition, performance, and production;
• music videos, multimodal music systems;
• gaming and augmented/virtual reality;
• music heritage and sustainability;
• business and marketing.