Audio Area @ ACM MM 2014

Music, Speech and Audio Processing in Multimedia Area at ACM Multimedia 2014

As a core part of multimedia data, the acoustic modality is of great importance as a source of information that is orthogonal to other modalities like video or text. Incorporating this modality in multimedia systems allows for richer information to be extracted when performing multimedia content analysis and provides richer means for interacting with multimedia data collections.

In this area, we call for strong technical submissions revolving around music, speech and audio processing in multimedia. These submissions may address analysis of the acoustic signals in order to extract information from multimedia content, or from the context. They may also address the synthesis of acoustic content for multimedia purposes, or novel ways to represent acoustic data as multimedia, for example, by combining audio analysis with recordings of gestures in the visual channel. We are also interested in the submissions addressing novel multimedia interfaces and interaction concepts enabled by the inclusion of acoustics, as well as the changing paradigms of analyzing, indexing, organizing, searching, recommending, consuming and enjoying music by taking into account contextual, social and affective aspects and content from other modalities or other information sources in general.