DAFx25: Call for Papers

We are pleased to announce that the 28th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx25) will be organized by the A3Lab, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy.

The conference will be hosted at the historical Mole Vanvitelliana, a cornerstone of culture in the port city of Ancona. The conference will feature oral presentations, poster and demo sessions, keynote addresses, and tutorials. The social program – including a welcome reception, concert and banquet – will offer opportunities for more informal interactions.

Topics of Interest

Original contributions for DAFx25 are encouraged in, but not limited to, the following topics:

• Capture, analysis, and audio restoration
• Representation, transformation and modelling
• Transmission and resynthesis
• Effects and manipulation
• Perception, psychoacoustics and evaluation
• Spatial sound analysis, estimation, coding and synthesis
• Source separation
• Physical modelling, virtual acoustic and analogue models
• Sound synthesis, composition and sonification
• Hardware and software design
• Music Information Retrieval
• Sound for Virtual, Augmented Reality, and Multisensoriality

This year we especially welcome submissions addressing:

• Interface design, user experience, usability and accessibility
• Neural modeling of digital audio effects and generative sound design

Submission Guidelines

• Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length papers, eight pages maximum, for both oral and poster presentations.
• Submitted papers must be camera-ready and formatted according to the templates and instructions available at the DAFx25 website.
• All papers must be submitted through the EasyChair conference management system.
• Papers are subject to peer review. Acceptance may be conditional upon changes being made to the paper as directed by the reviewers.
• Proceedings with the final versions of the accepted contributions will be made freely accessible on the DAFx website after the conference closure.
• Volumes 1998 to 2024 of DAFx proceedings are now indexed in Scopus and this will apply similarly to DAFx25 proceedings.

Important Dates

• Submission deadline for new submissions: March 31st, 2025
• Manuscript update deadline: April 6th, 2025
• Review due: April 30th, 2025
• Notification of acceptance: May 6th, 2025
• Borderline papers rebuttal: May 30th, 2025
• Borderline papers notified: June 9th, 2025
• Camera ready (demo & papers): July 1st, 2025
• Registration open (early bird): June 17th
• Early bird registration ends: July 16th

Reviewing Process

Following the last editions of the DAFx, a rebuttal process will be allowed for borderline papers that may benefit from further clarifications from the authors before the final decision.

Templates

• Latex and Word Templates are available for download here: Download

Submission Website

EasyChair Submission Website