MIREX 2025 - Call for Submissions

[Junyan Jiang]

Sorry for cross-posting.

The Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange (MIREX) is an annual community-based evaluation campaign for MIR algorithms, held in conjunction with the ISMIR conference. We are happy to announce that MIREX 2025 is now open for submission! You can find details on the MIREX wiki page: https://www.music-ir.org/mirex/wiki/MIREX_HOME.

How to Participate

• Read the Participant Agreement and task description carefully.
• Program your system.
• Write a 2-4 page extended abstract PDF describing your system.
• Submit your system and extended abstract to the MIREX submission site.
• Top-performing teams will have the opportunity to present their MIREX posters at the LBD session at ISMIR 2025.

Task Descriptions

Traditional MIR tasks

• 2025:Audio Chord Estimation 
• 2025:Lyrics Transcription
• 2025:Cover Song Identification 
• 2025:Music Structure Analysis
• 2025:Audio Beat Tracking
• 2025:Audio Key Detection

Modern MIR Tasks

• 2025:Symbolic Music Generation
• 2025:Music Audio Generation
• 2025:Music Description & Captioning
• 2025:Polyphonic Transcription
• 2025:Song Deepfake Detection
• 2025:Music Reasoning QA
• 2025:RenCon (Expressive Piano Performance Rendering Competition)

If you have any questions or feedback, please feel free to contact us. This will help MIREX 2025 and future MIREXes a lot.

Best,

Future MIREX Team, 2025

MIREX 2025 Organizers:

• Gus Xia, MBZUAI
• Junyan Jiang, New York University
• Akira Maezawa, Yamaha
• Ziyu Wang, New York University
• Yixiao Zhang, ByteDance Inc.
• Ruibin Yuan, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
• J. Stephen Downie, University of Illinois