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.

Call for Papers

Download the Official Call for Contributions PDF (J. Audio Eng. Soc., Vol. 61, No. 6, 2013 June)

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