Subject: Call for papers: LVA/ICA 2010, September 27-30, 2010, Saint-Malo, France From: Emmanuel Vincent <emmanuel.vincent@xxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:12:52 +0100 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>Dear all, If you are working on CASA or if you are interested in ICA, tensor decompositions or related models of neural information processing, then the following announcement is definitely relevant to you. ---------------------------------------------- LVA/ICA 2010 September 27-30, 2010 - Saint-Malo, France 9th International Conference on Latent Variable Analysis and Signal Separation formerly the International Conference on Independent Component Analysis and Signal Separation http://lva2010.inria.fr/ ---------------------------------------------- Ten years after the first ICA workshop in Aussois, the series of ICA conferences has shown the liveliness of the community of theoreticians and practitioners working in this field. While ICA and blind signal separation have become mainstream topics, new approaches have emerged to solve problems involving signal mixtures or various other types of latent variables: semi-blind models, matrix factorization using SCA, NMF, PLSI, but also tensor decompositions, IVA, ISA, ... The 9th edition of the conference, renamed LVA/ICA to reflect this evolution towards more general Latent Variable Analysis problems in signal processing, will offer an interdisciplinary forum for scientists and engineers to experience renewed theoretical surprises and face real-world problems. In addition to contributed papers (oral and poster presentations), the meeting will feature keynote talks by leading researchers: Pierre Comon, University of Nice, France Stephane Mallat, Ecole Polytechnique, France Mark Girolami, University of Glasgow, UK Arie Yeredor, Tel-Aviv University, Israel as well as a community-based evaluation campaign (SiSEC 2010), a panel discussion session, and a special late-breaking / demo session. ---------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES April 8, 2010: Paper submission deadline June 15, 2010: Notification of acceptance June 30, 2010: Final paper due July 31, 2010: Late-breaking / demo / SiSEC abstract submission deadline Detailed submission instructions will be available on the conference website http://lva2010.inria.fr/. ---------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS Prospective authors are invited to submit papers in all areas of latent variable analysis and signal separation, including but not limited to: Theoretical frameworks: probabilistic, geometric & biologically-inspired modeling; flat, hierarchical & dynamic structures; sparse coding; kernel methods; neural networks Models: linear & nonlinear models; continuous & discrete latent variables; convolutive & noisy mixtures; linear & quadratic time-frequency representations Algorithms: blind & semi-blind estimation; identification & convergence conditions; local & evolutionary optimization; computational complexity; adaptation & modularity Speech and audio data: source separation; denoising & dereverberation; CASA; ASR Images: segmentation; fusion; texture analysis; color imaging; coding; scene analysis Biomedical data: functional imaging; BCI; genomic data analysis; systems biology Unsolved and emerging problems: causality detection; feature selection; data mining; control; psychology; social networks; finance; artificial intelligence; real-time applications Resources: software; databases; objective & subjective evaluation procedures Papers must be original and must not be already published nor under review elsewhere. Papers linked to a submission to SiSEC 2010 are highly welcome. The proceedings will be published in Springer-Verlags Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Series. ---------------------------------------------- SPECIAL ISSUE AND BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD Extended versions of selected papers will be considered for a special issue of a journal. The Best Student Paper Award will distinguish the work of a PhD student with original scientific contributions and the quality of his/her presentation at LVA/ICA 2010. Eligible papers must be first-authored and presented by the PhD student during the Conference. Candidates will be asked to notify their participation on the submission form. A prize of 400 offered by the Fondation Metivier will be awarded to the winner. ---------------------------------------------- LATE-BREAKING / DEMO / SiSEC SESSION A special session will be dedicated to the presentation of: early results and ideas that are not yet fully formalized and evaluated software and data of interest to the community, with focus on open source resources signal separation systems evaluated in SiSEC 2010 but not associated with a full paper Presenters are invited to submit a non-reviewed abstract, which will be included in the conference program but not published in the proceedings. We look forward to receiving your technical contribution and meeting you in Saint-Malo! Remi Gribonval and Emmanuel Vincent General Chairs Vincent Vigneron and Eric Moreau Technical Chairs