Subject: 2nd Call for Papers: ICA 2007 - Intl. Conf. on Independent Component Analysis and Signal Separation From: Mark Plumbley <mark.plumbley@xxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 17:46:53 -0000 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>Dear List, A reminder about the call for papers for ICA 2007, which may be of particular interest to those of you working in audio signal separation or auditory scene analysis. Best wishes, Mark Plumbley (General Chair, ICA 2007) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- *** 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS *** ICA 2007 7th International Conference on Independent Component Analysis and Signal Separation London, UK 9-12 September 2007 www.ica2007.org The 7th International Conference on Independent Component Analysis and Signal Separation (ICA 2007) will be held at Queen Mary, University of London, from Sunday 9 September to Wednesday 12 September 2007. Independent Component Analysis and Signal Separation is one of the most exciting current areas of research in statistical signal processing and unsupervised machine learning. Following the previous ICA conferences in Aussois (France), Helsinki (Finland), San Diego (CA, USA), Nara (Japan), Granada (Spain) and Charleston (SC, USA), this year the conference is organized and sponsored by the ICA Research Network, an EPSRC-funded network of researchers in over 25 UK institutions. The Conference will include invited talks as well as oral and poster presentations of refereed papers and special sessions. It will be organized in a single track and will be selective. Papers are solicited in all areas of independent component analysis and signal separation, including blind source separation (BSS), as well as semi-blind, non-blind, and model-based signal separation. Topics of interest include (but not limited to) the following: * Algorithms and Architectures: non-linear ICA, probabilistic models, sparse coding, linear & nonlinear models, convolutive & noisy models; * Theory: optimization, complex methods, time-frequency representations; * Applications: audio, bio-informatics, biomedical engineering, communications, finance, image processing, psychology; * Emerging Technologies: analogue and digital VLSI implementations, photonics; * Functional Neuroimaging: EEG, ERP, MEG, fMRI, applications in neuroscience; * Speech and Musical Audio: source separation, denoising, dereverberation, temporal models, computational auditory scene analysis (CASA), beamforming; * Visual and Sensory Processing: image processing and coding, image separation. All contributions must be original, and must not have been previously published, nor be under review for presentation elsewhere. Detailed instructions for submission to ICA 2007, including formatting instructions and templates, will be available from the conference website at http://www.ica2007.org Important Deadlines Special session proposals: 1 March 2007 Paper submission deadline: 23 March 2007 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Mark D Plumbley Department of Electronic Engineering Queen Mary University of London Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK Tel: +44 (0)20 7882 7518 Fax: +44 (0)20 7882 7997 Email: mark.plumbley@xxxxxxxx http://www.elec.qmul.ac.uk/people/markp/