Dates: January 26-29, 2014
Tutorial day: January 26, 2014
Location: London, UK
Chairs: Karlheinz Brandenburg and Mark Sandler
News
Paper deadline extended:September 25, 2013
Paper submission site is open:www.aes.org/53rd_authors
Late-breaking demo/poster proposal deadline: October 15, 2013.
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Up to 1000 GBP travel bursary is included in the Prize for Reproducible Research.
Two new invited speakers and a new sponsor announced.
Semantic Audio is concerned with content-based management of digital audio recordings. The rapid evolution of digital audio technologies, e.g. audio data compression and streaming, the availability of large audio libraries online and offline, and recent developments in content-based audio retrieval have significantly changed the way digital audio is created, processed, and consumed. New audio content can be produced at lower cost, while also large audio archives at libraries or record labels are opening to the public. Thus the sheer amount of available audio data grows more and more each day.
Semantic analysis of audio resulting in high-level metadata descriptors such as musical chords and tempo, or the identification of speakers facilitate content-based management of audio recordings. Aside from audio retrieval and recommendation technologies, the semantics of audio signals are also becoming increasingly important, for instance, in object-based audio coding, as well as intelligent audio editing, and processing. Recent product releases already demonstrate this to a great extent, however, more innovative functionalities relying on semantic audio analysis and management are imminent. These functionalities may utilise, for instance, (informed) audio source separation, speaker segmentation and identification, structural music segmentation, or social and Semantic Web technologies, including ontologies and linked open data.
This conference will give a broad overview of the state of the art and address many of the new scientific disciplines involved in this still-emerging field. Our purpose is to continue fostering this line of interdisciplinary research. This is reflected by the wide variety of invited speakers presenting at the conference.
Download the Official Call for Contributions PDF (J. Audio Eng. Soc., Vol. 61, No. 6, 2013 June)
