International Conference on Music Information Retrieval ICMIR on October 18-19, 2026 in Rome, Italy

Content-based querying and retrieval
Database systems, indexing and query
Fingerprinting and digital rights management
Music transcription and annotation
Music signal processing
Symbolic music processing
Sound source separation in music signals
Score following, audio alignment and music synchronization
Optical music recognition
Melody and motives
Rhythm, beat, tempo
Structure segmentation and analysis
Harmony, chords and tonality
Timbre, instrumentation and voice
Performance analysis
Modification and transformation of music data
Computational musicology
Music perception and cognition
Computational ethnomusicology
Emotion, mood, affection
Applications of MIR to the performing arts and multimedia
Automatic classification
Genre, style and mood analysis
Similarity metrics
Music summarization
User interfaces, interaction
User models
Music recommendation
Playlist generation
Text and web mining
Knowledge representation, social tags and metadata
Libraries, archives and digital collections
Evaluation and annotation
Methodology
Aesthetics
Philosophical issues
social, legal, ethical and business issues