Conference Committee

General Chairs

  • Masataka Goto (AIST, Japan)
  • Ichiro Fujinaga (McGill University, Canada)

Program Chairs

  • Keiji Hirata (NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan)
  • George Tzanetakis (University of Victoria, Canada)

Tutorials Chair

  • Kunio Kashino (NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan)

Finance Chair

  • Takuichi Nishimura (AIST, Japan)

Publications Chair

  • Kazuyoshi Yoshii (AIST, Japan)

Publicity Chairs

  • Hirokazu Kameoka (NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan)
  • Hiromasa Fujihara (AIST, Japan)

Registration/Accommodation Chairs

  • Tomoyasu Nakano (AIST, Japan)
  • Akinori Ito (Tohoku University, Japan)

Local Organizing Committee Chair

  • Tetsuro Kitahara (Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan)

Local Organizing Committee

  • Takuya Fujishima (Yamaha Corporation, Japan)
  • Masatoshi Hamanaka (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
  • Keiichiro Hoashi (KDDI R&D Laboratories Inc., Japan)
  • Katsutoshi Itoyama (Kyoto University, Japan)
  • Katsuhiko Kaji (NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan)
  • Kazuhiro Nakadai (Honda Research Institutes, Japan)
  • Mitsunori Ogihara (University of Miami, USA)
  • Yasunori Ohishi (NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan)
  • Tsutomu Terada (Kobe University, Japan)

Program Committee

  • Juan Pablo Bello (New York University, USA)
  • Elaine Chew (University of Southern California, USA)
  • Roger Dannenberg (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
  • Simon Dixon (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
  • J. Stephen Downie (University of Illinois, USA)
  • Dan Ellis (Columbia University, USA)
  • Emilia Gómez (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)
  • Ozgur Izmirli (Connecticut College, USA)
  • Haruhiro Katayose (Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan)
  • Youngmoo Kim (Drexel University, USA)
  • Anssi Klapuri (Tampere University of Technology, Finland)
  • Paul Lamere (The Echo Nest, USA)
  • Olivier Lartillot (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)
  • Elias Pampalk (Last.fm, UK)
  • Bryan Pardo (Northwestern University, USA)
  • Christopher Raphael (Indiana University, USA)
  • Gaël Richard (Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications, France)
  • Craig Stuart Sapp (Stanford University, USA)
  • Malcolm Slaney (Yahoo! Research Inc., USA)
  • Douglas Turnbull (Swarthmore College, USA)
  • Remco C. Veltkamp (Universiteit Utrecht, Netherland)
  • Frans Wiering (Universiteit Utrecht, Netherland)

Senior Advisors

  • Yuzuru Hiraga (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
  • Haruhiro Katayose (Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan)
  • Hiroshi G. Okuno (Kyoto University, Japan)
  • Shigeki Sagayama (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
  • Satoshi Tojo (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)

Logo Designer

  • Toshie Matsui (Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan)