The ISMIS 2011 Contest: Music Information Retrieval has come to an end. We thank all the contestants for participation and hope you enjoyed the event and gained valuable experience. The competition attracted very large interest among Data Mining and Music Information Retrieval community: 292 teams with 357 members had registered, 150 of them actively participated, submitting over 12,000 solutions in total, largely outperforming baseline methods. The top three teams are:

Music Genres:

1. Amanda C. Schierz and Marcin Budka, Bournemouth University, UK (domcastro)
2. Edward Apeh, Amanda C. Schierz and Marcin Budka, Bournemouth University, UK (BeYou)
3. Brian S. Jones, Sandia National Laboratories, USA (wahoo)

Music Instruments:

1. Eleftherios Spyromitros Xioufis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (lefman)
2. Grigorios Tsoumakas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (tsoumakas)
3. Robert Coleman, Daniel Schoonover and Eli Bowen (minor contributor), University of California, Irvine, USA (CNSlab)

Congratulations!

Final standings can be found on the Leaderboards: Music Genres and Music Instruments. Top solutions will be described shortly at TunedIT Blog and presented during ISMIS conference.

All contest files, including target decisions and evaluation procedures, are now publicly available in the challenge folder. Feel free to use them in your research, just remember to put a reference to this contest.

Hope to see you all in Warsaw, June 28-30!