Call for Papers ICA2001

[Scott Makeig]

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                          ICA2001
                     http://ica2001.org

             Third International Conference on
              Independent Component Analysis
                  and Signal Separation

                  San Diego, California
                   December 9-13, 2001

Independent Component Analysis (ICA) is emerging as a new standard
area of signal processing and data analysis. ICA attempts to solve
the blind source separation problem in which sensor signals are
unknown mixtures of unknown source signals. While there are no
general analytical solutions, in the last decade researchers have
proposed good approximate methods based on simple assumptions about
the source statistics and using maximum likelihood, information
maximization and minimization of higher-order moments.

ICA theory has received attention from several research communities
including machine learning, neural networks, statistical signal
processing and Bayesian modeling. More recently numerous applications
of ICA have appeared including applications to adaptive speech
filtering, speech signal coding, biomedical signal processing,
image compression, text modeling and financial data analysis.
ICA2001 will feature the latest developments in the new field of
blind source separation. The Workshop will feature internationally
respected keynote speakers, poster sessions, and symposia on theory,
on algorithms and on applications to a wide range of fields and
data types. The Conference recreational program includes an informal
banquet and a unique opening cocktail party / unmixer.

This, the third international meeting in this series, is being
hosted by the Institute for Neural Computation, UCSD. The previous
two meetings were held in Aussois, France (December, 1999) and
Helsinki, Finland (June, 2000). This year's event will be held
December 9-13, 2001 immediately following the Neural Information
Processing Systems (NIPS) conference in Vancouver, Canada and its
post-conference workshops.

   PAPERS WILL BE ACCEPTED THROUGH THE WORKSHOP WEBSITE
                    http://ica2001.org
             BETWEEN JUNE 1 AND JUNE 29, 2001

Organizing Committee

Chair        Terrence Sejnowski terry at inc.ucsd.edu
Program      Te-Won Lee         tewon at inc.ucsd.edu
Publicity    Scott Makeig       scott at inc.ucsd.edu
Treasurer    Gary Cottrell      gary at inc.ucsd.edu
Publication  Tzyy-Ping Jung     jung at inc.ucsd.edu
Comm.        Javier Movellan	javier at inc.ucsd.edu
Arrangements John Staight    	john at inc.ucsd.edu

International Advisory Committee
 
C. Jutten, INPG, France
E. Oja, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
A. Bell, The Salk Institute, USA
S. I. Amari, RIKEN, Japan

Program Committee

Luis Almeda	            Hagai Attias
Jean-Francois Cardoso	Andrzej Cichocki
Seungjin Choi	        Pierre Comon
Gustavo Deco	        Scott Douglas
Richard Everson	        Mark Girolami
Lars Kai Hansen	        Aapo Hyvrinen
Juha Karhunen	        Soo-Young Lee
Te-Won Lee	            Michael Lewicki
Juan Lin	            Eric Moreau
Noburo Murata	        Klaus-Robert Mueller
J.-P. Nadal	            Klaus Obermayer
Bruno Olshausen	        Ding-Tu Pham
Barak Pearlmutter	    Jose Principe
Juergen Schmidhuber	    Kari Torrkola