IEEE TSAP: Special Issue on Blind Signal Processing for Speech and Audio Applications

[Guy Brown <g.brown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear List,

Please find enclosed the call for a special issue of IEEE Transactions 
on Speech and Audio Processing that I'm co-editing. Submissions in the 
field of computational auditory scene analysis (CASA) are very welcome.

Best wishes

Guy Brown

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Call for Papers
IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing
Special Issue on Blind Signal Processing for Speech and Audio 
Applications

A special issue of IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing 
will be dedicated to recent advances in blind signal processing for 
speech and audio applications. The special issue will represent a 
vehicle whereby researchers can present new studies of blind signal 
processing techniques for speech and audio applications, thus paving 
the way for future developments in the field.

Prospective papers should be unpublished and present solid research 
work offering innovative contributions either from a methodological or 
application point of view. In particular, submissions are encouraged on 
theory and methods related to the following areas.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

* Blind source separation of speech and audio signals	
* Independent component analysis
* Blind dereverberation of speech and audio signals		
* Sparse component analysis
* Blind channel identification of acoustic systems		
* Computational auditory scene analysis

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:

Prospective authors should prepare manuscripts according to the 
Information for Authors as published in any recent issue of the 
Transactions and as available on the web at 
http://www.ieee.org/organizations/society/sp/infotsa.html. Note that 
all rules will apply with regard to submission lengths, mandatory 
overlength page charges, and color charges.

Manuscripts should be submitted electronically through the online IEEE 
manuscript submission system at http://sps-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com/. 
When selecting a manuscript type, authors must click on "Special Issue 
of T-SA on Blind Signal Processing for Speech and Audio Applications." 
Authors should follow the instructions for the IEEE Transactions on 
Speech and Audio Processing and indicate in the Comments to the 
Editor-in-Chief that the manuscript is submitted for publication in the 
Special Issue on Blind Signal Processing for Speech and Audio 
Applications. We require a completed copyright form to be signed and 
faxed to 1-732-562-8905 at the time of submission. Please indicate the 
manuscript number on the top of the page.

SCHEDULE:

Submission deadline:			July 1, 2006
Notification of acceptance:		January 31, 2007
Final manuscript due:			March 15, 2007
Publication date:				July 2007

GUEST EDITORS:

Dr. Shoji Makino, NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan
maki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Dr. Te-Won Lee, University of California, San Diego, USA
tewon@xxxxxxxx

Dr. Guy Brown,	University of Sheffield, UK			
g.brown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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Dr. Guy J. Brown
Senior Lecturer
Department of Computer Science
University of Sheffield
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211 Portobello Street
Sheffield S1 4DP
United Kingdom
Tel ::  +44 (0)114 222 1821
Fax :: +44 (0)114 222 1810
Email :: g.brown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Web :: http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~guy