The International Music Information Retrieval Systems Evaluation Laboratory: Governance, Access and Security

The IMIRSEL (International Music Information Retrieval Systems Evaluation Laboratory) project provides an unprecedented platform for evaluating Music Information Retrieval (MIR) and Music Digital Library (MDL) techniques, by bringing together large corpora and significant computational resources with the necessary rights management and technical infrastructure to support a variety of MIR/MDL research areas. The standardized research collection being deployed represents a large and diverse corpus of musical examples, which we are hosting in our secure environment for use in evaluating MIR/MDL algorithms. Grid services and NCSA's D2K machine learning environment provide a powerful, highperformance, and secure framework for designing, optimising, and executing complex MIR/MDL evaluation applications. IMIRSEL provides a community resource for researchers who would otherwise not be able to afford the content rights and computational resources to carry out large-scale MIR/MDL evaluatio...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: ISMIR
• Authors: J. Stephen Downie, Joe Futrelle, David K. Tcheng
• Keywords: Computational Resources, ISMIR 2004, Music Information Retrieval, Retrieval Systems Evaluation