The annual conference of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) is the world’s leading research forum on processing, searching, organizing and accessing music-related data. The ISMIR Conference provides a meeting place for the discussion of MIR-related research. Its main goal is to foster the exchange of ideas across disciplines by bringing together researchers, developers, educators, librarians, students, and professional users.

ISMIR is a non-profit organization which, among other things, oversees the organization of the ISMIR Conference.

ISMIR over the years

Impact

ISMIR is currently the 8th ranked publication in the “Multimedia” subcategory of “Engineering and Computer Science”, and the 2nd ranked in the “Music & Musicology” subcategory of “Humanities, Literature, and Arts”.