Call for participation: 3rd Community-Based Signal Separation Evaluation Campaign (SiSEC 2011)

[Emmanuel Vincent <emmanuel.vincent@xxxxxxxx>]

Dear list,

We are happy to announce the launch of the SiSEC 2011 campaign. Compared 
to the two previous editions, the proposed datasets have become closer 
to real-world, including background noise and source movements.

Participation from researchers in the area of COMPUTATIONAL AUDITORY 
SCENE ANALYSIS is especially welcome.



                  *** FIRST CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ***
                     (apologies for cross-posting)

                 3rd Community-Based Signal Separation
                          Evaluation Campaign
                              (SiSEC 2011)

                      http://sisec.wiki.irisa.fr/

                    Discussion deadline: May 2, 2011


Following the success of the two previous editions, we are glad to 
announce the launch of the SiSEC 2011 campaign for the evaluation of 
source separation algorithms. This campaign is open to anyone, whether 
you are an expert or a newcomer, you are interested in e.g. audio, 
biomedical or image processing, and your algorithm relies on prior 
information or not.

Three audio tasks and one biomedical task are proposed as a starting point:
- underdetermined speech and music mixtures
- mixtures of speech and real-world background noise
- speech mixtures under dynamic conditions
- separation of dependent EEG components

This is a community-based endeavor:  all aspects of evaluation, 
including datasets and evaluation criteria, are to be agreed between the 
participants.  We organizers will address the time-consuming issues of 
collecting and evaluating the results submitted by all participants.

As a first step, we are issuing a call for discussion. The purpose of 
this discussion is to comment and improve upon the above four tasks and 
to raise new tasks that could be of interest to the community. A second 
call for dataset proposal and a third call for the submission of 
separation results will follow.


CALL FOR DISCUSSION
Deadline: May 2, 2011

Please register to the mailing list sisec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx at 
https://listes.irisa.fr/sympa/info/sisec.

If you wish to comment upon the proposed tasks or to propose a new task, 
please post your comments on the wiki http://sisec.wiki.irisa.fr/ 
(register at http://sisec.wiki.irisa.fr/tiki-register.php). We will then 
forward your comment to the mailing list and to other colleagues that 
might be interested in participating in this task.


IMPORTANT DATES

* May 2, 2011: Deadline for discussion and call for detailed task 
specifications and datasets
* June, 2011: Detailed task specification and dataset collection deadline
* July, 2011: Call for submission of separation results
* October 3, 2011: LVA/ICA 2012 paper submission deadline,
* October 10, 2011: Separation Campaign entrance deadline
* November, 2011: Publication of the SiSEC 2011 results (on the web)
* December 12, 2011: LVA/ICA 2012 camera ready submission deadline
* January 15, 2012: Deadline of abstracts for demo-session at LVA/ICA2012
* March 12-15, 2012: LVA/ICA 2012


If you have any question, do not hesitate to contact us at 
sisec-org@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Best regards,
SiSEC2011 Evaluation Chairs