Proceedings of the second international ACM workshop on Music information retrieval with user-centered and multimodal strategies

Abstract

It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 2nd International ACM Workshop on Music Information Retrieval with User-Centered and Multimodal Strategies (MIRUM). MIRUM was proposed in order to gather experts from the Music and Multimedia Information Retrieval communities, as well as other neighboring fields, and to provide a high-profile platform for presenting current work on Music Information Retrieval, with strong focus on user-centered and multimodal approaches. Music content is multifaceted and exists in many different representations, including audio recordings, symbolic scores, folksonomy descriptions and accompanying video material. No single representation is capable of accounting for all of the music experience, which is strongly guided by affective and subjective context- and user-dependent factors. The existence of complementary representations and information sources in multiple modalities makes music multimedia content by definition. Furthermore, the subjective and affective aspects of music pose challenges that are faced and experienced in the broad Multimedia community. Thus, it is appropriate to discuss these topics in a Multimedia context. After a successful and inspiring first run in MIRUM 2011, we are very happy to now see a second edition of MIRUM at ACM Multimedia in 2012. The MIRUM 2012 Call for Papers attracted 27 international technical submissions. The program committee accepted 12 papers that cover a wide variety of topics, ranging from interpersonal influence in real-life social networks to the relationship between categorical and dimensional emotion semantics of music. In addition, the full-day program includes a keynote speech by Dr. Ye Wang (National University of Singapore) on synergies between sound and music computing, mobile computing, and cloud computing technologies for healthcare applications.