Neuran Nets for Signal Processing

[niranjan@eng.cam.ac.uk]

Provisional announcement of NNSP98

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		  FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS


	   THE 1998 IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING SOCIETY WORKSHOP
			      ON
	       NEURAL NETWORKS FOR SIGNAL PROCESSING


		     August 31 - September 3, 1998

	       Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences,
			  Cambridge, England


The 1998 IEEE Workshop on Neural Networks for Signal Processing is the
seventh in the series of workshops.

Cambridge is a historic town, housing one of the leading Universities
and several research institutions. In the Summer it is a beautiful place
and a large number of visitors come here. It is easily reached by train
and road from the Airports in London. The combination of these
make it an ideal setting to host this workshop.

The Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences is based in
Cambridge, adjoining the University and the Colleges. It was founded
in 1992, and is devoted to the study of all branches of Mathematics.
The Institute runs programmes that last for upto six months on various
topics in mathematical sciences. Past programmes of relevance to
this proposal include Computer Vision, Financial Mathematics and
the current programme on Neural Networks and Machine Learning
(July - December, 1997). One of the programmes at the Institute in
July-December 1998 is Nonlinear and Nonstationary Signal Processing.
Hence hosting this conference at the Institute will benefit the
participants in many ways.

4. Accommodations 

Accommodation will be at Robinson College, Cambridge. Robinson is
one of the new Colleges in Cambridge, and uses its facilities to
host conferences during the summer months. It can accommodate
about 300 guests in comfortable rooms. The College is within
walking distance to the Cambridge city center and the Newton Institute.


5. Organization

General Chairs
  Prof. Tony  CONSTANTINIDES  (Imperial)
  Prof. Sun-Yuan KUNG         (Princeton)

Vice-Chair
  Dr Bill Fitzgerald   (Cambridge)

Finance Chair
  Dr Christophe Molina (Anglia)

Proceeding Chair
  Elizabeth J. Wilson (Raytheon Co.)

Publicity Chairs
  Dr Aalbert De Vries  (Sarnoff)
  Dr Jonathan Chambers (Imperial)

Program Chair 
  Dr Mahesan Niranjan  (Cambridge)

Program Committee

  Tulay ADALI              Andrew BACK       Jean-Francois CARDOSO
  Bert DEVRIES             Lee GILES         Federico GIROSSI
  Yu Hen HU                Jenq-Neng HWANG   Jan LARSEN
  Yann LECUN               David LOWE        Christophe MOLINA
  Visakan KADIRKAMANATHAN  Shigeru KATAGIRI  Gary KUHN
  Elias MANOLAKOS          Mahesan NIRANJAN  Dragan OBRADOVIC
  Erkki OJA                Kuldip PALIWAL    Lionel TARASSENKO
  Volker TRESP             Marc VAN HULLE    Andreas WEIGEND


Papers describing original research are solicited in the areas described
below. All submitted papers will be reviewd by members of the
Programme Committee.


6. Technical Areas

			Paradigms
artificial neural networks, Markov models, graphical models,
dynamical systems, nonlinear signal processing, and wavelets

			Application areas
speech processing, image processing, OCR, robotics, adaptive 
filtering, communications, sensors, system identification, 
issues related to RWC, and other general signal processing 
and pattern recognition

			Theories
generalization, design algorithms, optimization,
probabilistic inference, parameter estimation, and
network architectures

			Implementations
parallel and distributed implementation, hardware design,  
and other general implementation technologies

7. Schedule

Prospective authors are invited to submit 5 copies of extended 
summaries of no more than 6 pages.  The top of the first page of the 
summary should include a title, authors' names, affiliations, 
address, telephone and fax numbers and email address, if any.  
Camera-ready full papers of accepted proposals will be published in 
a hard-bound volume by IEEE and distributed at the workshop.  For 
further information, please contact Dr Mahesan Niranjan,
Cambridge University Engineering Department, Cambridge CB2 1PZ,
England, (Tel.) +44 1223 332720, (Fax.) +44 1223 332662,
(e-mail) niranjan at eng.cam.ac.uk.
More information relating to the workshop will be available in
http://www-svr.eng.cam.ac.uk/nnsp98.

Submissions to: 
		  Dr Mahesan Niranjan
		  IEEE NNSP'98
		  Cambridge University Engineering Department
		  Trumpington Street,
		  Cambridge CB2 1PZ
		  England


***** Important Dates ******

  Submission of extended summary :              February 26, 1998
  Notification of acceptance :                  April 6, 1998
  Submission of photo-ready accepted paper :    May 3, 1998
  Advanced registration, before :               June 30, 1998

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