CFP: Perceptual and Statistical Audition

[Martin Heckmann <Martin.Heckmann@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear AUDITORY list,

this is a call for papers for a special
issue of Speech Communication on

Perceptual and Statistical Audition

Aims and Scope
Current trends in audio analysis are
strongly founded in statistical principles, or on approaches that are influenced
by empirically derived, or perceptually motivated rules of auditory perception.
These approaches are perceived as orthogonal, but new ideas that draw upon
both perceptual and statistical principles can often result in superior
performance. The relationship of these two approaches however, has not
been thoroughly explored and is still a developing field of research.
In this special issue we invite researchers
to submit papers on original and previously unpublished work on both approaches,
and especially on hybrid techniques that combine perceptual and statistical
principles, as applied to speech, music and audio analysis.  Recent
advances in neurosciences have emphasized the important role of spectro-temporal
modulations in human perception. We encourage submission of original and
previously unpublished work on techniques that exploit the information
in spectro-temporal modulations, particularly within a statistical framework.
Papers describing relevant research
and new concepts are solicited on, but not limited to, the following topics:

 - Analysis of audio including
speech and music
 - Audio classification
 - Speech recognition
 - Signal separation
 - Multi-channel analysis
 - Computational Auditory Scene
Analysis  (CASA)
 - Spectro-temporal modulation
methods
 - Perceptual aspects of statistical
algorithms, such as Independent Component Analysis and Non-negative Matrix
Factorization.
 - Hybrid methods that use CASA-like
cues in a statistical framework

Guest Editors
Martin Heckmann      
               
 Bhiksha Raj            
           Paris Smaragdis
Honda Research Institute Europe  
     Carnegie Mellon University      
 Adobe Advanced Technology Labs
63073 Offenbach a. M., Germany  
             Pittsburgh,
PA 15217                Newton,
MA 02446        
martin.heckmann@xxxxxxxxxxx    
            bhiksha@xxxxxxxxxx
               paris@xxxxxxxxx

Deadline
Papers due 29th June, 2009

Submission Guidelines
Authors should consult the "Guide
for Authors", available online, at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/specom
for information about the preparation of their manuscripts. Authors, please
submit your paper via http://ees.elsevier.com/specom, choosing "Perceptual
and Statistical Audition" as the Article Type. If you are a first
time user of the system, please register yourself as an author. 
 
Best

Bhiksha, Paris, and Martin

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