SIGMUS is a multidisciplinary research community that draws upon a wide range of disciplines and methodologies including

• acoustics,
• signal processing,
• pattern recognition,
• artificial intelligence,
• musicology
• and psycho-acoustics.

Five regular meetings are being held each year, where papers are presented concerned with

• automatic transcription,
• sound source separation,
• classification,
• analysis,
• understanding,
• retrieval,
• recommendation,
• alignment,
• transformation,
• summarization,
• composition,
• arrangement,
• synthesis,
• production,
• assistance,
• coding,
• visualization,
• user interface,
• database and annotation.

• A Blind Decomposition of Concurrent Sounds (Mamoru Ueda, Waseda University, 1994)
• Development of Cyber Shakuhati (Tsutomu Kanamori, L.I.S.T., 1995)
• A Jazz Session System for Interplay among All Players: I. System Overview and Implementation on Distributed Computing Environment (Masataka Goto, Waseda University, 1997)
• A WWW - based Melody Retrieval System (Tomonari Sonoda, Waseda University, 1999)
• A Learning Session System : Statistical Modeling of Player's Reactions (Masatoshi Hamanaka, University of Tsukuba, 2001)
• Papipuun: Music Summarization System based on GTTM (Keiji Hirata, NTT, 2003)
• Estimation of Number of Sound Sources and Octave Position in Multi - Pitch Extraction Using Harmonic Clustering (Hirokazu Kameoka, The University of Tokyo, 2005)
• An Error Correction Method of Drum Sound Recognition by Estimating Drum Patterns (Kazuyoshi Yoshii, Kyoto University, 2006)
• Automatic Synchronization Between Musical Audio Signals and Their Lyrics: Vocal Separation and Viterbi Alignment of Vowel Phonemes (Hiromasa Fujihara, Kyoto University, 2007)
• A Stochastic Representation of Sung Melody and the Dynamic Characteristics (Yasunori Ohishi, Nagoya University, 2008)
• SingBySpeaking: Singing Voice Conversion System from Speaking Voice By Controlling Acoustic Features Affecting Singing Voice Perception (Takeshi Saito, AIST, 2008)

What's New

Dec. 24, 2009.

Program of the 84th regular meeting appeared here.

Nov.24, 2009.

Call for Papers of the 84th regular meeting appeared here. (Application due: Dec.11, 2009.)

Recent & Upcoming Meetings/Conferences

• The 80th regular meeting
  May 21-22, 2009 (University of Tsukuba at Ibaraki)
  • CFP (Application due: Mar 30, 2009)
  • Program (Application due: May 8, 2009)

• The 81st regular meeting
  July 29-31, 2009 (Human Resort iizaka at Fukushima)
  • CFP (Application due: May 29, 2009)
  • CFP [Demo session] (Application due: May 29, 2009)
  • Program (Application due: July 15, 2009 July 21, 2009)
    The application due date has been extended from the previously announced July 15 to July 21.
  • Program [Demo session]

• The 82nd regular meeting
  November 2-3, 2009 (The University of Tokyo at Tokyo)
  • Co-sponsored by the University of Tokyo
  • Satellite Event: ISMIR 2009
  • CFP (in Japanese) (Application due: Sep. 11, 2009)
  • Call for Demos/Participation (in English) (Demo submission deadline: Sep. 11, 2009 Sep. 18, 2009)
  • Program (in English)
    • Invited talk session
      • Simon Dixon (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
      • Anssi Klapuri (Tampere University of Technology, Finland)
      • Geoffroy Peeters (IRCAM, France)
      • Xavier Serra (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)
      • Malcolm Slaney (Yahoo! Research, USA)
    • Poster/Demo session
      • List of accepted demonstrations (in English)
  • Registration for participation (until Oct. 23 onsite registration will be accepted.)

• The 83rd regular meeting
  December 5-6, 2009 (Kunitachi College of Music at Tokyo)
  • CFP (Application due: Oct 5, 2009)
  • Program

• The 84th regular meeting
  February 15-16, 2009 (tentative) (Kwansei Gakuin University at Kobe, tentative)
  • CFP (Application due: Dec 11, 2009)
  • Program.

About SIGMUS

• Introduction of SIGMUS [HTML version] [PS version] [PDF version] (only in Japanese)
• How to join us (in Japanese) (General Information for enrolling in a SIG of IPSJ (in English))
• Member list of the steering committee of SIGMUS (in English)
• Application form for presenting at a regular meeting (in Japanese)
• About the Working Groups
  • So far SIGMUS has organized several working groups. The aim is to develop a vision towards solutions for responding promptly and flexibly to the rapidly changing trends, objectives and demands reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of the research area. At present, Rencon WG and InterCollege WG are in action.

  • Rencon WG pursues evaluation methods for performance rendering systems. Since 2002 it has been organizing workshops where participants discuss the problems in expressive performance and music evaluation contests for performance rendering systems. For more information on its activities, sample music generated by performance rendering systems, and references, please visit the Rencon WG's web page.

  • InterCollege WG is a networking forum that is designed to facilitate discussions and increasing networking opportunities for those universities and colleges with departments undergoing musical information processing-related research and/or creation. Since 1995 it has been organizing computer music concerts jointed with SIGMUS meeting. Please visit the InterCollege WG's web page for more information.

Archives

• List of Awards in SIGMUS (in Japanese)

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• LaTeX template for demo session tar.gz format (EUC) zip format (Shift_JIS)

Related information (only in Japanese)

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